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Donald Trump isn't like normal people, former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance explained on Monday. The University of Alabama School of Law professor said that if Trump wasn't a former president he likely would have been indicted by now.

Speaking to MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan, Vance addressed the problems that Trump's lawyer Christina Bobb is struggling with now that she has been called in for questioning over her false claim made to the court that Trump handed over all of the government documents in his possession.

Former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks can't figure out why Donald Trump was demanding to exchange the Mar-a-Lago documents for the information on the Russia probe.

Over the weekend it was reported that Trump attempted to exchange the stolen documents at Mar-a-Lago for the Russia investigation documents.

It was revealed over the weekend that Donald Trump attempted to bribe the government into turning over all of the documents he stole from the White House if the government gives him all of the documents they have on the Russia investigation.

Trump has long been obsessed with the Russia probe, explained NBC political analyst Mike Schmidt. But it was former DOJ prosecutor Andrew Weissmann who noted that looking at it with his prosecutor's hat on, he sees "damning evidence."

If Democrats don't get out and vote, it's over, implied former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) on MSNBC Monday. Around the United States there are a number of very close races that will make or break whether the Republican Party takes over the Senate, governors' seats and election monitors.

Democrats have been dismissive, she noted, of people like Dr. Oz and some of the Senate races in which Donald Trump-endorsed candidates were running. Over the summer, those Republicans were a laughing stock, but as the election nears and more and more ads and money is spent to prop these candidates up, the polls are tightening.

The public universities of Florida were exempted from the state's sunshine laws, so no one knew that Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) was the only person among the final candidates to take over the Florida University system.

In February, the state Senate voted to exempt the university system from requirements under the Florida transparency laws that originally allowed the state's citizens to see the applicants for positions as university presidents.

In Sunday's "Last Week Tonight" episode, John Oliver spotlighted local media outlets that glorify crime and often get the stories wrong because they buy into whatever police tell them.

In a super-clip of news reports, over and over, local news anchors repeated the words "police say." The way the local news business works follow the adage, "if it bleeds it leads." Oliver makes the argument instead of non-stop crime that promotes the lie that it is running rampant across the country, newsrooms should do their jobs and uncover what actually happened.

Republican Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters spoke at a MAGA rally in Mesa on Sunday, and in his haste to promote how great life was under former President Donald Trump he asked the rally if they were better off two years ago.

Two years ago was just after the most terrifying summer in recent history where offices were closed, unemployment was soaring, Americans were terrified that they were going to be removed from their homes for the inability to pay their rent or mortgages, family members were dying or on ventilators in hospitals, and the stock market was trying to climb back up, but crashed again in October, with investors losing $1.7 trillion.

While at a rally in Mesa, Arizona, former President Donald Trump effectively admitted to his own criminal behavior by stealing government documents.

"I had a small number of boxes in storage," Trump told the audience. "There is no crime. They should give me immediately back everything they have taken from me because it's mine."

During his Arizona rally, former President Donald Trump falsely accused Democrats of putting a "trigger warning" on the Constitution. He then went off on a rant against Democrats claiming they are the ones who destroy documents and "they plant documents," he continued.

"They plant documents. Let's see, is there a book on nuclear destruction or the building of nuclear weapon cheaply?" he said, sweating in the Arizona heat. "Let's put that box — let's put that in with Trump. Nah, they plant documents. They have a terrible reputation. Look at the kinda things — this is just the small part that I've read. And who would want to be with them? We're safer in that Chinese restaurant."

Kanye West ended his Saturday night with a rant with the promise that on Sunday, he would go off after the Jews at "death con 3." The term is actually DEFCON, a defense readiness level, so it's unclear if the artist, who now calls himself Ye, meant he was going to war against Jews or he was going to kill Jews.

Either way, it spawned a lot of conversation about antisemitism and West's self-described mental illness. But among the Republicans who were willing to come out in support of West was Indiana Republican Attorney General Todd Rokita.

Already videos have leaked from documentaries about Roger Stone's involvement in the attempt to overthrow the election. While the House Select Committee hasn't revealed the specifics about the issues they'll address at the Oct. 13 public hearing, they have indicated that there are a lot of unanswered questions they intend to address.

Speaking to MSNBC on Sunday, The Guardian's Hugo Lowell explained that they got at least 68 minutes of clips of the Danish documentary about Stone.