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Speaking to MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell on Monday evening, legal analysts Andrew Weissman and Brad Moss walked through how Donald Trump made his legal problems even worse with his latest court filing.

Weissmann, who previously served as the counsel for the FBI and under Robert Mueller's special counsel investigation, explained that the two stories in the Times and the court filing pair well together because they both link Trump to responsibility. The court documents name Trump as providing the requested documents multiple times when asked before the search was executed.

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the Intelligence Committee chairman who helped prosecute the first of two impeachment cases against Donald Trump, is seriously concerned about the intelligence and national security implications of the documents in the former president's possession.

Speaking to MSNBC's Rachel Maddow on Monday, Schiff explained that the search warrant at Mar-a-Lago makes him question what Trump was doing and thinking.

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow began her Monday episode citing the court decision last week that former Attorney General Bill Barr lied in his memo about the Russia investigation.

Maddow began by talking about the Office of Legal Counsel that penned a "policy" that a sitting president can't be indicted while in office. But according to Barr, that OLC opinion didn't matter, because special counsel Robert Mueller concluded that Donald Trump was innocent. The three-judge panel of the Federal Appeals Court ruled that was false.

On Monday, Axios reported that former President Donald Trump's political action committee, Save America, spent $1 million in legal fees — just in the month of July alone, according to new filings with the Federal Election Commission.

"Trump and his allies are involved in several investigations related to the 2020 presidential election. Meanwhile, New York's attorney general is conducting a civil investigation into the Trump Organization," reported Sareen Habeshian. "Trump's legal bills could go up even higher now that he has filed a lawsuit in response to the FBI's search of his Mar-a-Lago residence this month."

Harvard Law School Professor Laurence Tribe walked through the "strange" court filing from Donald Trump calling for a court-appointed reviewer of the documents taken from his golf club after a search warrant. But among the things that were the most unexpected is the admission of guilt.

Legal analyst Marcy Wheeler, of EmptyWheel, posted an excerpt from the documents showing the strange admission of guilt.

In a CNN exclusive, aired on Monday, reporter Matthew Chance interviewed Pavel Filatyev, a former Russian soldier in hiding, who attracted international attention last week after risking his life to condemn the war against Ukraine and highlight the crimes being committed by the Russian Army.

Putin has broadly claimed to the Russian people that the invasion of Ukraine is simply a limited, strategic operation to provide security to so-called "independent Republicans" declared by Kremlin-backed separatists in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine. But Filatyev, having seen the war up close, understands better.

New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman revealed on Monday evening that Donald Trump had more than 300 classified documents that were taken to his golf club in Palm Beach, Florida.

According to the report, the National Archives found about 150 documents they concluded were sensitive when they sifted through the first batch of information gathered in Jan. 2022, "helping to explain the Justice Department’s urgent response."

On Monday, The Daily Beast reported that Stephen Alford, the man behind a bizarre scheme to try to extort $25 million out of Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) by taking advantage of an ongoing sex trafficking investigation, has been sentenced to five years in prison for the scheme.

"Alford, who admitted to wire fraud in the scheme last November, had promised the Gaetz family that, if they gave him $25 million to help free a U.S. hostage in Iran, President Joe Biden would pardon the Republican in connection to an ongoing child sex trafficking investigation," reported Roger Sollenberger. "Alford faced up to 20 years and a $250,000 fine."

Harvard Law School Professor Laurence Tribe walked through his observations of Donald Trump's recent court filing over the documents seized by a search warrant at his golf club in Palm Beach, Florida.

Speaking to MSNBC's Joy Reid on Monday, Tribe called the court documents "very strange," a non-legal term reserved for extraordinarily bizarre cases.

Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano isn't appearing much in public, keeping his events exclusive and isolated, but while he's campaigning, he's using security funded by armed members with militia ties.

According to Lancaster Online, the armed security team isn't from a professional security company, but from a new evangelical church called LifeGate.

On Monday's edition of CNN's "The Situation Room," Palm Beach County Attorney Dave Aronberg weighed in on the new lawsuit Trump filed in South Florida to try to block the Justice Department from reviewing the materials the FBI seized at his Mar-a-Lago resort.

The key problem for Trump, said Aronberg, is that this is being done after the fact.

Two weeks after the FBI executed a search warrant of former President Donald Trump's resort, but this Monday lawyers for Trump have moved forward with a lawsuit to stop the DOJ from reviewing the documents until they can be reviewed by a court-appointed representative.

Trump said on his social media site that he would be asking for a so-called "special master" to review the documents before the government does. A special master, however, is for attorney/client privilege. None of the White House documents would fall under such privilege, however. If they were documents involving Trump and his White House counsel, those would still belong to the U.S. government.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace returned from vacation to walk through the ongoing scandal of the government documents Donald Trump took to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.

Speaking to Andrew Weissmann, a former Justice Department prosecutor for former special counsel Robert Mueller, Wallace asked about classified documents and distinctions on the criminality with the various classifications.