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On Monday, NBC News reported that federal prosecutors have discussed moving to review Rudy Giuliani's electronic communications, as part of a widening criminal investigation.

"Prosecutors for the Southern District of New York have been in communication about their desire to see Giuliani's emails with Justice Department officials in Washington, the two sources said," reported Julia Ainsley, Tom Winter, and Lisa Ferri. "The SDNY needs Washington's approval before its prosecutors can ask a judge to sign a search warrant for materials that may be protected by attorney-client privilege, according to department policy. It is not known whether that approval has been granted by Washington to the SDNY."

If Americans are fearful that the president is asleep at the wheel, the truth is far worse. Not only does President Donald Trump not appear to care about controlling the COVID-19 crisis, but he also "mostly abandoned the day-to-day running of government," CNN.com reported Monday.

While there are traditional government staff working in the final days of the administration, Trump has another agenda entirely.

President Donald Trump can't stand rejection, and his campaign has had a lot of it since the 2020 presidential election — from judge after judge dismissing his legal team's election lawsuits to the Electoral College certifying President-elect Joe Biden's victory. Following all that rejection, journalist Charlotte Klein stresses in an article published by Vanity Fair on December 20, Trump and his supporters are resorting to increasingly extreme ideas in the hope of preventing Biden from being inaugurated less than a month from now.

"Having effectively exhausted his legal options — at least 86 judges, including dozens appointed by Republicans, have shut down the president's unprecedented attempt to overturn his defeat through the courts — Donald Trump is apparently now entertaining even more anti-democratic paths to preserving his power," Klein explains. "During a White House meeting on Friday, nearly a week after the Electoral College certified Joe Biden's victory, Trump reportedly discussed invoking martial law to overturn his losing election result — a strategy one of the meeting's attendees, former national security adviser and recent pardon recipient Michael Flynn, had recently proposed on cable television."

A former attorney at the Department of Justice under President Donald Trump now regrets her decision to work for him -- and she thinks she could have better served the country by quitting immediately.

Writing in the New York Times, former Office of Legal Counsel attorney Erica Newland explains that she decided to remain at the DOJ after Trump came to power because she thought she could limit the damage he did to American democracy.

President Donald Trump is starting to believe his own conspiracy theories about his election loss, according to a White House reporter.

Associated Press correspondent Jonathan Lemire told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that the president is increasingly leaning on outsiders as his circle shrinks inside the White House, and those allies are feeding him wild claims about election fraud and unconstitutional remedies to his loss.

New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman reported Sunday that disgraced former lawyer to President Donald Trump was spotted at the White House on Sunday evening.

Trump has thought about naming Powell as a special counsel to investigate election fraud in his final month of office. Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance explained on MSNBC Sunday that it isn't possible.

President Donald Trump revealed on Sunday that he had participated in a telephone call with Alabama Senator-elect Tommy Tuberville (R), who has hinted at making an official objection to the Electoral College results.

The incoming senator noted last week that Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives had vowed to object to President-elect Joe Biden's win.

In an interview with Jonathan Swan of Axios, a White House insider claimed the attorney Sidney Powell has absolutely no support among senior Donald Trump aides for her legal advice for overturning the 2020 presidential election results and they want her to go as far away as possible --even if that means leaving Earth.

On Friday the New York Times reported that Powell was invited to the White House along with former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and ex-National Security Advisor Michael Flynn for an election fraud strategy session with the president that was disrupted by shouting.

During an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday afternoon, the New York Times' Peter Baker said Donald Trump is finding fewer allies within his administration willing to indulge his "fantasy" that he can somehow change the results of the 2020 election.

Noting that a feeling of "desperation" is dogging the president, the reporter said that multiple officials are already moving on with their lives as President-elect Joe Biden's January 20th inauguration approaches.

With host Alex Witt noting the president is leaning on former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn - who has advocated invoking martial law to overturn the election -- for advice on how to remain in office, Baker said the president's circle of trusted advisors is "shrinking"

"This is a president who likes people who tell him what he wants to hear. He wants to hear people tell him that he didn't lose, that he just got robbed," Baker explained. "It's so much better for his narrative that he's not, in fact, a loser. He doesn't want to be known as a loser and he's grasping onto anybody who will tell him that he's not. At this point, there are fewer and fewer of those people out there."

"The circle of people who are willing to go along with this fantasy that somehow this election was stolen is shrinking more and more. and so that's why you see a president looking for anybody who is willing to validate this conspiracy theory," he added.

Baker later added, "He's trying increasingly desperate ideas. There are fewer people around him who are willing to tell him no. The White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is one of the remaining people who is willing to say, 'Hey, you can't do that. That's going too far."

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NBC host Chuck Todd on Sunday suggested that the U.S. Congress should commission a investigation into President Donald Trump's failures during the COVID-19 pandemic.

"The pandemic continues to tear through the country," Todd explained in his opening remarks on Meet the Press. "We're now experiencing a 9/11 every day and it's worse than a 9/11 on some days."

During a meeting at the White House on Friday, President Donald Trump reportedly asked his advisers about retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn's recent suggestion that the administration impose martial law and use the military to conduct a "rerun" of the November presidential election.

According to the New York Times, which first reported the discussion Saturday, Trump's advisers pushed back against Flynn's proposal and other ideas the president floated during the meeting, including his suggestion that notorious right-wing attorney Sidney Powell be named special counsel for an investigation into baseless allegations of widespread "voter fraud." Flynn, who Trump pardoned last month, was reportedly present at the White House meeting.

NBC's "Saturday Night Live" held their final show of 2020 with a special holiday edition.

During the show's cold open, Vice President Mike Pence prepared to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.

Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election -- which he lost -- hit yet another snag according to a new report by Axios.

"Rudy Giuliani called Ken Cuccinelli, second in command at the Department of Homeland Security, on Thursday night and asked him whether DHS could seize voting machines," Jonathan Swan reported, citing "a source familiar with the call."