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The Justice Department has moved forward with the grand jury indictment of Oath Keepers lawyer Kellye Sorelle in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on Congress and violence at the Capitol.

The charges are conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of an official proceeding and aiding and abetting, and entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, along with another.

Former CIA officer Sue Gorden, who also served as the Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, explained to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace that one of the most dangerous things from Donald Trump's stolen document scandal is that foreign adversaries know that there is access to classified information simply hanging out there for their taking.

"The problem we have here is that depending on what agenda issues forth, he has had at his disposal for a long period of time information that if he used that information to advance an agenda item, it couches devastating consequence to national security," said Gordon. "But I can't think of a simpler way to say why I think that this moment is so difficult, and that's because there's no justification — and knowing who he is — and that he doesn't fully understand — but he may not decide to protect if he wanted to do something different. This is a tough situation. I am glad that we have worked so hard to recover the information, but I fear that it has been in essentially the public domain for a long time."

The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress and the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election is investigating financial aspects of Donald Trump's rally and the subsequent violence at the Capitol. But Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) said that there is more than just those pieces of the probe.

Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace's "Deadline White House" on Wednesday, Lofgren explained there is also a concern about Trump paying the legal fees of some of the witnesses who appeared.

Republican Karl Rove on Wednesday forced a Fox News host to face the fact that Donald Trump took documents that didn't belong to him.

Documents at former US president Donald Trump's Florida home were "likely concealed" to obstruct an FBI probe into his potential mishandling of classified materials, the Justice Department said in a court filing Tuesday.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) has been embroiled in a difficult reelection campaign, only recently realizing that the voters in his state think he's a "tool of Vladimir Putin." The scandals got worse on Wednesday when confirmed that one of the fake Wisconsin electors works for his campaign.

Wisconsin was one of several states in which a group of Republican leaders attempted to confuse the Senate, Vice President Mike Pence and the National Archives by submitting phony GOP electors for Donald Trump despite the state voting for Joe Biden in the 2020 election.

Donald Trump lawyer John Eastman spent the morning testifying to the special grand jury called in Fulton County, Georgia, where he was asked about attempts to overthrow the 2020 election in the state.

Eastman penned the so-called "coup memo," which demanded that then-Vice President Mike Pence stop the electoral college count on Jan. 6, 2022.

Sources told Bloomberg News reporter Chris Strohm that the Justice Department is unlikely to make any movements against Donald Trump ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.

It has been three weeks since the Justice Department was issued a search warrant on Trump's resort, Mar-a-Lago, to retrieve classified government documents. Tuesday evening, the DOJ filed documents that went so far as to show photos of the classified folders strewn about on the floor of Trump's personal office.

Donald Trump has caused a lot of problems for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) this year. Thus far it's been about endorsing Senate candidates that have low chances of making it through the general election. But for the past month, Trump has brought more scandals to the news cycle.

Now that the Justice Department is revealing more about what the FBI found at Trump's resort in Palm Beach, things are growing even more complicated for Republicans.

Former FBI agent Asha Rangappa is disputing Donald Trump's excuse that he "declassified" everything upon leaving office.

For the past several weeks, allies of the former president have been excusing away his possession of classified intelligence he stole from the White House and took with him back his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. Laws don't show a distinction between classified and unclassified information that is taken from the government. It's all a crime.

The Justice Department filing dropped late on Tuesday night, revealing more than what was anticipated about Donald Trump's scandal over government documents stored at his Florida resort. Among what was included was a photo of classified "top secret" information that was still included in folders that were clearly marked strewn about the Mar-a-Lago floor.

Speaking to MSNBC on Wednesday morning, former assistant director of counterintelligence at the FBI, Frank Figliuzzi, explained that the information answered a lot of his questions about what all the Justice Department had and identified.

The Justice Department filed its response to former President Donald Trump's request to appoint a court-appointed representative to sift through the documents taken from his golf course in Palm Beach to ensure there is no "privileged" information.

In the 36-page filing, the DOJ argued Trump's case should not be heard but that he would lose even if it were allowed. The filing included 18-pages of exhibits.

Donald Trump's social media website has been authorizing QAnon fanatics, but now Trump insiders on the site have taken the next step to promoting the QAnon world of conspiracy theories.

Speaking about the shocking morning of memes that Trump reposted, MSNBC reporter Ben Collins explained that Trump shared a meme referring to "The Storm," a QAnon conspiracy that says the so-called "deep state," Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden will be "rounded up and executed in public."

The world is awaiting the Justice Department's filing in response to Donald Trump's demand for a court-appointed person to sift through all of the documents the FBI took as part of a search warrant.

Speaking to MSNBC about the impending filing, David Laufman, former chief of the Department of Justice counterintelligence section, and Neal Katyal, former acting Solicitor General, both explained that the idea of a special master, in this case, is a little absurd given that the documents have already been sorted.