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A new document from special counsel Jack Smith's legal team shows one of former President Donald Trump's lawyers once claimed he didn't own a computer, Politico reporter Betsy Woodruff Swan said.

Swan appeared on MSNBC Monday to discuss the Friday filing in Smith's confidential documents case filed against Trump in Florida's federal court.

The shadow president in Palm Beach, Florida is flexing his political sway over the GOP to terminate a Southern Border bill and bruise the current guard led by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Minority Whip John Thune (R-SD) in the process.

Former President Donald Trump's MAGA faithful are attempting to stick a fork in the $118 billion to fortify border enforcement policy with support for war-torn Ukraine, Israel, and other U.S. allies "to make Senate leadership sweat," according to Axios, citing a source.

Former federal court Judge J. Michael Luttig was stunned by a "cynical" defense filed by former President Donald Trump in the Supreme Court case challenging his eligibility to appear on Colorado's ballot under the 14th Amendment's insurrectionist ban.

Luttig, a Republican who served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, took to the social media site "X" on Monday evening to explain his shock at the arguments made by the former president's attorneys, which he argued were tantamount to admitting defeat.

Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) was busted by his colleague Rep. Joe Neguse (D-CO) as he tried to defend the impeachment process against President Joe Biden — using his own words from five years ago when the shoe was on the other foot.

"Chairman Green, I have an editorial here that I want to enter into the record," said Neguse. "The title is, 'Americans are the victims of the impeachment inquiry.' It's an opinion piece. The subtitle is, 'A lot of bipartisan legislation that enjoys widespread support sits gathering dust while Congress focuses on the impeachment inquiry.' I assume you disagree with this?"

The state decisions barring former President Donald Trump from the ballot under the Insurrection Clause of the 14th Amendment are a severe problem for the Supreme Court, said conservative commentator Charlie Sykes on MSNBC Monday.

But ultimately, he said, Chief Justice John Roberts and much of the rest of the court will try to find a way out that doesn't require them to uphold those decisions.

When a document surfaced over late summer foreshadowing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' GOP primary debate strategy in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, its origin had been anonymous.

The document told DeSantis “to take a sledgehammer” to rival Vivek Ramaswamy and make sure to "defend Donald Trump" when he's cut down by former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and repeatedly "attack Biden and the media."

Nikki Haley is requesting Secret Service protection as Donald Trump amps up his character attacks and threats against her increase, according to a new report.

Haley, the last opponent standing in a once-crowded Republican presidential nomination race, confirmed to the Wall Street Journal she’s faced "multiple issues."

Special counsel Jack Smith is going further than he has before in accusing former President Donald Trump and his attorneys of being "conspiracy theorists" in their arguments against the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, Politico reporter Betsy Woodruff Swan told MSNBC's Ali Velshi on Monday.

This comes as Smith is attempting to stave off a sweeping discovery request in that case that goes far beyond what an ordinary criminal defendant would, asking for huge troves of federal communications in search of evidence that the charges for stealing and hoarding national defense information were fabricated.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's checking account is in the red as he faces over $152.9 million in debt, according to court documents.

Bankruptcy filings made by Giuliani on Monday show that he is facing at least 10 undecided lawsuits after being ordered to pay $148 million to former Georgia election workers Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman.

Rep. Nancy Mace received a brutal fact check Monday on Fox News after slamming a bipartisan border protection bill she admitted she hadn’t finished reading.

“This bill keeps the border wide open,” Mace said. “The measures that we feel are extremely undesirable, that keep our border open, that water down the asylum bill, it’s not good for the country.”

House Republicans are chasing a "fantasy" border control policy that will never become a reality, even if former President Donald Trump gets reelected, Republican insider Brendan Buck told MSNBC's Chris Jansing on Monday.

"There is this fantasy among a lot of Republicans that there will be some day when the stars will align and you can have the perfect Republican super-conservative policy on the border," Buck continued. "That is never going to happen."

Donald Trump's MAGA movement is a "tissue-paper tiger," as evidenced by the underwhelming "God's Army" convoy that traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border, according to an op-ed in USA Today by Rex Huppke.

"The 'God’s Army' convoy was supposed to be a mighty force of 700,000 or more people from every corner of America," Huppke writes. "It wound up being maybe a couple hundred vehicles parked at a rural ranch in Quemado, Texas – basically a Trump rally without a Trump, but with plenty of hucksters selling MAGA merch and grifting the easily grifted."