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MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace was supposed to be on vacation this week, but popped into her regular show to encourage Democrats not to kowtow to Republicans' rantings about investigations and hearings into the recent search warrant executed at Mar-a-Lago.

She began by attacking the Republican response to the news as "asinine" and confessed she was "horrified."

WASHINGTON, D.C. — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) spoke to reporters on Tuesday about the recent search warrant issued for evidence at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club, after he refused to turn over classified documents.

The National Archives retrieved 15 boxes from Mar-a-Lago several months ago, and it was revealed on Monday that for the subsequent months, Trump has been negotiating with the FBI over the additional documents he refused to give back.

Motherboard revealed that Facebook turned over data to police so that they could prosecute a teenager for seeking an abortion.

In states around the country, abortion has been banned, but in a few states, legislatures passed bills that allowed vigilantes to track down people who had abortions. What is problematic in this case, is that the incident happened in a state where abortion isn't illegal. However, it happened later in the pregnancy, which is against Nebraska's cut-off date.

Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani was subpoenaed by the district attorney's office in Fulton County, Georgia to answer questions about possible voter fraud in the state as Donald Trump pressured lawmakers to change the 2020 election results.

Giuliani, who was serving as the president's lawyer at the time, told the court that he couldn't make it to Fulton County. According to the court documents, Giuliani told prosecutors his doctor ordered him not to fly.

To get a search warrant, the FBI would have to have evidence of possible crimes being committed. Speaking to CNN on Tuesday, the day after former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club had a visit from FBI agents, former White House Counsel John Dean, who served under Richard Nixon, speculated whether there was an insider giving information to the FBI.

In a statement, Trump compared the FBI to the Watergate burglars, who attempted to set up wiretaps on the phones of the Democratic Party.

Hours after Donald Trump said that the FBI had "raided" his Mar-a-Lago home on Monday, his middle son told Fox News host Sean Hannity that the former president had been working with federal authorities for months.

"The purpose for the raid from what they said was because the National Archives wanted to, you know, corroborate whether or not Donald Trump had any documents in his possession," Eric Trump told Hannity. "And my father has worked so collaboratively with them for months. In fact, the lawyer that’s been working on this was totally shocked."

President Donald Trump ranted on Monday evening that the FBI broke into his safe at Mar-a-Lago as they acted on a search warrant issued by a federal judge.

Speaking to a series of former aides to the ex-president, New York Magazine questioned what might be going on behind the vault walls.

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) hasn't announced whether or not he'll run for president in 2024, but as he tries to promote himself and other GOP candidates, he's traveling the country with a gun-free zone for events, despite the fact that he's decried such zones as being ripe targets for mass shooters.

"The Buffalo guy said he wanted to go where he knew there wouldn't be blowback from people being armed, and so he tried to find a gun-free zone," DeSantis said about the mass shooter that opened fire at a grocery store in New York state.

Former Justice Department prosecutor Andrew Weissmann, who worked on special counsel Robert Mueller's team, explained on MSNBC that if he was advising a client facing what former President Donald Trump is, there would be a strong warning. But it was former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal who took it a step further.

"If I were Donald Trump's lawyer right now, thank God I'm not, I would be advising my client to be telling [their] family, 'I am looking at jail time, and we should make plans accordingly,'" said Katyal.

After Mar-a-Lago was raided by the FBI, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow called in Nicolle Wallace, who previously worked in George W. Bush's White House. The former Republican was asked how the GOP will likely respond to the news that Trump removed 15 boxes of documents from the White House that were supposed to be sent to the National Archives.

She cited Steven Ayers, a former supporter of President Donald Trump who appeared before the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack and the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election. After following Trump, Ayers was charged with crimes and made it clear that he felt manipulated.

After seeing that the FBI issued a search warrant for Mar-a-Lago, Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told Attorney General Merrick Garland to preserve his documents and clear his schedule.

The comment puts Garland on notice that McCarthy and the Republican officials are coming for him if they regain power in Congress in November.

Former federal prosecutor Harry Litman and Democratic elections lawyer Marc Elias both noted that if the reports are true that the decisions behind the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago has to do with the documents he took from the White House, it would be a crime that, if he was convicted, could bar the former president from ever holding office again.

"This, is by far, not one of the biggest crimes he's been charged with, but, it carries the penalty, that someone who is convicted of it is disqualified from running for future federal office," said Litman. "So, 18 USC 2071, if you destroyed records, when they came and talk to him a few months ago, and carted stuff away. Much of it was documents that have been ripped up. You had, just today, pictures of them stuffing things down the toilet. They may have decided to go after this, disqualify him from future office, secure a conviction, and have that be the broad resolution of the whole problem of Trump. That, in any event, it's huge, but this feature of it that he couldn't run for office in the future is really an enormous aspect of it."

Former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi walked MSNBC viewers through what the Miami Field Office had to do to execute today's search warrant on Mar-a-Lago.

"High degree of certainty that it is related to the national archives documents," he told MSNBC