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According to Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, her office will cooperate with the office of her state's attorney general on possible charges to be filed against Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel based upon bribery allegations.

Reacting to the bombshell revelation that McDaniel participated in a phone call with Donald Trump attempting to get state election officials to not certify the 2020 presidential election results, Benson said there are already criminal investigations underway and McDaniel could be swept up in them.

Speaking with host Alex Witt, Benson, who noted she was a former dean at Wayne State University Law School, said she was not overly surprised by the phone call that likely will be part of the special counsel Jack Smith's pursuit of Trump for fomenting an insurrection on Jan. 6.

"I'm curious of your thoughts of her [McDaniel], a fellow Michigander, essentially playing the role of an accomplice, saying the RNC would provide those canvassers with legal representation to break election laws. Was this a surprise to you? Do you think that she may be investigated for potential crimes?" the MSNBC host asked.

"I think it is possible," Benson conceded. "We know under Michigan law if you offer someone something of value in order to compel them to not fulfill their legal duty, that constitutes bribery. So, will that be captured in criminal proceedings? We will have to wait and see."

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"Miss McDaniel is no stranger to these conspiracy claims," she added. "She held a press conference a few weeks earlier with a number of lies about our elections in Michigan. It was no surprise to me to hear of her involvement. What it does underscore is how high these are national figures, the president of the United States, just how high this went."

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Complaints by Donald Trump and his allies that he should be allowed to remain on ballots in multiple states contesting his eligibility because he has been denied "due process" was dismantled by a former U.S. attorney on Saturday morning.

Speaking with host Ali Velshi, former prosecutor Barbara McQuade claimed there is a basic misunderstanding about how "due process" is applied and that the former president and his defenders have it all wrong when they complain that he has not been found to be an "insurrectionist."

"There is now this growing record of legal opinions affirming that what happened on January 6th wasn't insurrection," host Velshi prompted. "The Supreme Court, ultimately I think, is going to have to at some point or another address that particular question."

McQuade argued with the conventional wisdom about how the law arrives at a determination of insurrection.

"I think one of the things that was important about the litigation was there was a trial," she reminded the MSNBC host. "There was an actual fact-finding mission. They heard testimony from members of Congress who were there as well as experts, who reached that decision. I think it is very important for both history and for this case."

"There are those complaining that Donald Trump has been denied due process in some way," she began. "But I think they're conflating a finding of a criminal violation of insurrection, it is a crime to engage in insurrection, where you have due process rights like the right to confront your accusers, the right to testify, the right to cross-examine witnesses. But that is when one's liberty is at stake."

House Republicans have been criticized for authorizing an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden with no evidence of the "high crimes and misdemeanors" that typically merit the process. A recent New York Times report has now revealed that one of their chief pieces of evidence doesn't pass muster when analyzing it in its proper context.

While questioning a forensic accountant in September, Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Florida) alleged that a text message from Hunter Biden to his daughter, Naomi alluding to giving half of his salary to his father constituted "a potential money laundering operation or potential pay-for-play operation." hinting at illegal "money going from son to father."

On Saturday morning, former Rep. Dave Jolly (R-FL) laughed when told how far Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is trailing Donald Trump in the race to be the 2024 Republican party presidential nominee and then noted that DeSantis' career in politics is coming to an ignominious and abrupt end.

With the Florida governor ineligible by state law to run for a third term, and the state already represented by two Republicans in the U.S. Senate, Jolly said DeSantis jumped the gun on starting his national career by taking on the former president who has the solid backing of the MAGA faithful.

With that in mind, the former GOP lawmaker said DeSantis is headed down the same road traveled by former Govs. Jeb Bush (R-FL) and Mike Huckabee (R-AR), both of whom launched humiliatingly bad presidential bids that failed.

"Why is Ron Desantis still in the race?" host Jonathan Capehart pressed, which set Jolly off laughing.

"Exactly, Jonathan. I heard that clip and I thought, 'Okay, we've now reached the excuses stage of his political campaign,' which is always the last one before withdrawal," Jolly stated while smirking.

"Look, the storyline on Ron Desantis is this, and on Saturday morning we can be light-hearted about it, but Republicans jumped into a hot and heavy dating relationship with him. He was the prom king. He was, Time magazine said, the future. His opening ad said on the eighth day God created him: Ron DeSantis."

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"And so they jumped into this heavy dating relationship with him, they thought he was all that — they realized he wasn't," he continued. "That he was just into himself and not into them. He was a little boring, he had lost his moves, he was stale. Republican voters have moved on and, just like a bad boyfriend, Ron DeSantis doesn't realize that."

After noting that former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC) has blown by the Florida governor in the polls, he added, "Ron DeSantis' presidential run is likely over. The question is, is his political career over as well? Because where does he go after leaving the governorship? Ask Jeb Bush and Mike Huckabee how that went. It doesn't go well."

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Early Saturday morning, Donald Trump went on an angry and scattershot tirade where he attacked special counsel Jack Smith, the Department of Justice and unnamed "Lowlifes and Radical Left Thugs."

Once again pointing out that he thinks he got a big win from the Supreme Court — which has been debunked by former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance — the embattled former president suggested the DOJ is taking part in a "real insurrection" by prosecuting him.

During an appearance on MSNBC on Saturday morning, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance was asked to lay out the timeline for the Supreme Court to eventually hear and make a ruling on the question of presidential immunity being asserted by Donald Trump.

Speaking with host Jonathan Capehart, the former prosecutor stated that special counsel Jack Smith made a proposal — which she called a "wrinkle" — that could accelerate the process.

Reacting to the court declining to take up the case before a lower court rules on the former president's assertion that he can't be prosecuted by the DOJ for actions related to the Jan. 6 insurrection, Vance explained, "The next stage is the first layer of appeal which is a three judge panel in the appellate court. Trump could even ask for a motion for re-hearing. If he loses with that three-judge panel, it gives him a little bit of extra delay, but it's usually something that does not work out for a defendant to ask for a hearing from the same judges who ruled against him."

"Then he's got 45 days to ask the court to re-hear en banc, which would mean all of the active judges on the D.C. Circuit would participate," she elaborated. "And then he can apply for certiorari with the United States Supreme Court."

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She then explained, "There's one additional wrinkle we should mention. In Jack Smith's motion here, he asked the Supreme Court to consider if they would not hear the case directly, if they wanted to go to the Court of Appeals, he asked them to consider taking the case immediately following the Court of Appeals decision without waiting for en banc and the usual time for certiorari. The Supreme Court has been silent so far on that request so we don't know what they are thinking."

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High-profile legal powerhouse and former Trump White House attorney Ty Cobb says the bombshell recordings of Donald Trump allegedly pressuring two Michigan election officials to refuse to certify the 2020 results for Joe Biden could put both the ex-president and Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel at risk.

Cobb earlier this week predicted Trump would win unanimously at the U.S. Supreme Court when he appeals the Colorado Supreme Court's ruling that found he is ineligible to be on the state's ballot because he violated the 14th Amendment by engaging in insurrection.