Rudy Giuliani

Former President Donald Trump's Florida club, Mar-a-Lago, closes over the summer because they're unable to accommodate people in the heat and humidity. So, he's headed up to his other club in Bedminster, New Jersey, where the heat isn't as bad.

But before he leaves, The Lincoln Project is hitting him with one more ad for the area that will flood his airwaves. The ads first began in early April, when the group of former GOP consultants targeted Trump with a message about Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) shoving him out of Republican influence. Trump, who has attacked McConnell since leaving office, is building the Republican Party without the influence of the former president.

MSNBC "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough went off on a furious tirade on Monday morning, attacking both the Donald Trump Justice Department and the Joe Biden Justice Department for leaking details of investigations into Trump associates and slow-walking announcing indictments.

Noting leaks that have come out over the last several years, going back to investigations into Donald Trump Jr over Russian election interference and the more recent one relating to accusations that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) had sex with an underaged teen, Scarborough demanded the agency either clear them or issue indictments, exclaiming, "Just do the damn job!"

"We heard from the Trump Justice Department, we heard that Don Junior, you know, leaks that Don Junior was going to be arrested," the MSNBC host ranted, his voice rising. "We heard that, you know, Jared Kushner was going to be arrested. I remember back during the George W. Bush administration, 'don't be too far from the studio, because Karl Rove is going to be indicted this Friday, don't be too far from the studio.'"

"Matt Gaetz -- we've been hearing about this investigation now for about a month and a half, maybe," he continued. "And we keep hearing the same thing: they're trying to figure out whether he had sex with a 17-year-old girl. Alright, well, they probably know by now, and yet, we keep hearing it. the leaks keep coming and they keep coming in all of these different directions. Now it's Rudy Giuliani and the leaks are coming out on Rudy Giuliani."

"This goes on all the time and I'm trying to figure out why don't they just -- if they got a case, then bring the charges, try the case!" he shouted. "Why do they keep leaking to all of these new agencies, 'oh, well, we're investigating' -- don't tell us what you're investigating! Investigate, bring the charges or don't bring the charges! Please, I am the last to defend Rudy Giuliani on what he's done over the past four or five years politically, but what happens if they don't bring the charges? This hangs over his head."

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Shut out of the White House and desperate to reclaim power in Congress next year, Republicans are locked in an internal battle over their party's direction, and whether to embrace or jettison the divisive politics of Donald Trump.

One hundred days after Trump's turbulent term gave way to Democratic rule in Washington, Republican lawmakers spent part of the last week in closed-door soul searching at their annual retreat in Florida, struggling to tamp down their conference's extremist personalities and highlight conservative policies they believe will resonate with voters.

Rudy Giuliani was raided by the FBI this week in what has proved to be the latest example of (alleged) inept criminal behavior by one of former President Donald Trump's closest advisers.

Giuliani is the target of an investigation by the US attorney's office in Manhattan surrounding his dealings in Ukraine while trying to drum up scandals about former President Joe Biden and any role he played in the firing of Marie Yovanovitch, Trump's former ambassador to Ukraine. Ironically, the investigation wasn't started under the Merrick Garland Justice Department, it began while Bill Barr was the attorney general. There was an internal debate whether or not to serve a search warrant for Giuliani in the final weeks of the Trump presidency, the Associated Press reported Friday.

Appearing on MSNBC's "The Sunday Show," former Donald Trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen said that former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani should prepare for the worst after federal authorities seized his phones and computers -- and he shouldn't expect Trump to ride to his rescue.

Speaking with host Jonathan Capehart, Cohen -- who went to jail for campaign violations involving Trump -- said Giuliani can expect the same fate.

According to Cohen, there are likely no emails or texts from Trump on Giuliani's phones because the former president doesn't use either, but there might be texts from the former New York City mayor describing actions the ex-president wanted him and others to take. He added that Trump's mild defense of Giuliani so far is an indication that the former president will let Giuliani take the fall for his crimes.

"Donald will treat Rudy the same way he treated me, which is, 'Rudy who? Michael who?' that's just who Donald Trump is," Cohen told the host.

"If Rudy doesn't cooperate, he's a bigger fool than I even thought he was because Donald Trump is going to throw him under the bus the same that he did to me," Cohen observed. "The difference is Rudy will do a 5K-1 Agreement, something I won't do."

"Mine was a campaign finance violation and Rudy's [legal problem] is more significant," Cohen continued. "Rudy potentially involved himself in national security issues whereas mine was a campaign violation that I was never part of the campaign. I didn't do a 5K-1 cooperation agreement. I just cooperated because I refused to be the villain of Donald Trump's story -- I wasn't going to let history portray me that way."

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Former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti explained over the weekend why Rudy Giuliani will likely be left with no choice but to provide evidence against former President Donald Trump.

In a Sunday column for Politico, Mariotti noted that federal agents may be examining whether Giuliani was acting at the behest of Ukrainian officials when he urged Trump to oust then-ambassdor to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch.

Appearing on MSNBC on Saturday morning with host Ali Velshi, former Donald Trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen said the raid on Rudy Giuliani's home and office ,where phones and computers were confiscated, could set off a domino effect of other associates of Donald Trump being implicated in corruption investigations.

On Thursday, the former New York City mayor was the subject of a raid --- ostensibly over his involvement with Ukraine -- with Cohen now claiming what we are seeing at the moment is just the tip of the iceberg of what is to come.

"You are a lawyer, Rudy Giuliani is a lawyer," host Velshi began. "You kept a lot of records that may be in some cases helped you. It certainly helped the prosecutors who went after you. I assume that there was a lot of stuff for them to find in Rudy Giuliani's office and phones."

"Well, here is my thoughts on that," Cohen replied. "They've used the Maria Yovanovitch issue in order to obtain the warrant. Now they have a treasure trove of information on Rudy's cellphones and computer, and they're going to be able to dig through all of that information."

"Rest assured, this is not about Maria Yovanovitch," he continued. "This is not just about Ukraine -- this could be about a multitude of other issues, you know, that shady Rudy has been involved with. As I always say, this is just the icing on the cake when it comes to the Southern District of New York review of what is going to be probably inside of Rudy's cellphones. He'll probably have information and contact with Bill Barr, with Jared Kushner, with Don [Trump] Jr."

"There could be issues regarding the illegal pardons that were given out. Who knows what is in there? You know who knows? The Southern District of New York and they don't play fair," he added with a rueful smile. " The funny -- the irony here is that Rudy was the one who created that playbook for the Southern District to really take this gangster tactic, you know, against individuals that they're prosecuting. They're really not prosecuting, they're convicting."

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On CNN Saturday morning, former New York City homicide prosecutor Paul Callan said that the investigation into Rudy Giuliani could put his finances "under a microscope."

"There are questions, as we've reported, as according to CNN reporting, within the former President Trump's inner circle as to who could be next," said anchor Christi Paul. "Do you think this raid tells you or any of us that there's more to come?"

In an alternately biting and hilarious column for the Daily Beast, author Molly Jong-Fast observed that Rudy Giuliani's future looks bleak based upon the defense presented by himself, his son and other advisers after federal authorities raided his home this week with a warrant signed by a judge.

As NBC reported, "On Wednesday, federal agents raided the home and office of former President Donald Trump's personal attorney, collecting phones and computers as part of their probe into whether he broke U.S. lobbying laws by failing to register as a foreign agent related to his work."

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Friday explained why he might take on Donald Trump in the 2024 GOP presidential contest.

"Are you thinking about running for president?" Fox News personality Sean Hannity asked.