joining us is our legal analyst, danny cevallos.hanks for getting up earlier than usual for us this morning. let's start with bannon. how strong is this case? how do you see it play out? >> it was strong enough that it was a federal case before. he was pardoned before the case ever went to trial, so there isn't any bar to the state authorities bringing charges for essentially the same conduct. and so we've kind of gotten a preview from his prior federal case, even though he was pardoned, and in general the theme is rather an historically common one, somebody starts a charity, somebody collects money to the charity, too much of the money goes into the collector's own pockets, that's really the essence of these charges. steve bannon may argue in defense, there were other people involved, i wasn't the main person, i didn't make any of these promises, i was just lending a helping hand to a charity that i thought was doing good. that's what i expect we'll see as the defense. and bannon has publicly made it clear he intends to fight this.

danny cevallos, sandra garza, thank you very much.ciate you both. >>> still ahead, how florida republicans are normalizing right-wing extremists like the proud boys and mike flynn, yay, next. i believe prop 27 is the right thing to do. i had experienced being in shelters at a young age. having nothing. prostituting. we don't choose this life. i never knew what safe was until i came to city of refugee. people that's coming through these doors are trying to break the cycle. prop 27 will help provide more funding for places like this and help people get off the streets. it feels good to have a place to call home. support prop 27. . >>> trigger warning. imagine it. america under president ron desantis, which i know, shudder. this is a man who clearly wants to land in the white house, and we can already envision what that would feel like given how he's governed a laboratory for the ultra maga right, and where freedoms go to die. it's also a state that saw a sharp increase in anti-semitic interests. people like the proud boys, one has been

they were all in agreement for legal analysis, danny cevallos is here nbc legal news danny, even the trump-appointed judges rejected this declassification telepathy kind of claim is this finally to bed >> it was a red herring always to begin with because even if trump somehow did declassify the telepathy or tweet or any other way, it doesn't change the fundamental argument, the other argument that these documents are not his. that he doesn't have what the court calls an individual interest in these documents, which is what he needed to have to have a case and so the appellate court analyzed that and they said, well, because at least as to these 100 documents there is no individual interest a former president has in classified documents, then this all is unimportant at this point and by the way, this is not an argument that trump's lawyers are actually making in court this is an argument that trump is making outside of court and then even this whole declassified by thinking is yet another red herring. when you saw some of those members of congress saying there's a process, well, you m

i want to bring in justice department ken dilanian, meredith mcgraw, and msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos. ken, let me start you with. because the special mast ser out with a brand new filing laying out a fairly strict schedule and the process that he wants both parties to come to grips on basically. talk to us about what we're learning. >> that's right, hallie. first, he's giving, he's asking the fbi to certify that what they say they seized, that they're standing by that. it was a detail and exact list. and they are giving the trump team a chance to challenge items on the list that are inaccurate or things they say that were seized that aren't on the list. and then he is sending out a bunch of different categories of records that he is asking the trump folks to decide whether they're going to challenge on the grounds of attorney-client communication, and executive privilege, and whether the document is a presidential record, or whether it is a personal record. but hallie, all of this, i have to say, is a bit of a side show, because the most consequential thing that happened, is that the

msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos. thank you as always. >>> one of the reasons that the former president has given for keeping classified documents at mar-a-lago is that they were bound for a future presidential library. toward the end of trump's tenure, looking for a potential library in home and some said put the library in greenland and the president talked about buying. the presidential advise e-s say it is usually a little more than an after-thought for trump and it would signal his career in politics is dead. and those who spoke about a library earlier today saying he didn't seem to be terribly interested. he is more interested in being president again. another confidante added this, presidential libraries are for ex-presidents. he is our next president. and also, saying trump should have given the records back and then asked for a loan of documents he wanted to exhibit as all past presidents have done. >>> republican senator marco rubio is downplaying the fbi search. listen to what he said in an interview with n

for more, i want to bring in legal analyst danny cevallos. this is one of many cases we've seen circling the latest president. how is this one fundamentally different? >> it's fundamentally different because of the extent of the factual allegations, and you could argue, the receipts, the documents that the new york attorney general has obtained, even though we haven't seen them in this complaint, we know they're out there, and in order to make these applications to insurance companies, for mortgages, for loans, there has to be documentary evidence. it's additionally significant, because no matter what, whether or not the trumps come to the table to settle this case, they can't unring the bell in that the facts have been handed over, the federal prosecutors and the irs may and are likely to initiate their own investigation and possibly criminal charges. >> all right. danny, good to have you here. thank you. >>> at the united nations, joe biden delivered a condemnation of russia's president vladamir putin and the war in ukraine hours after puti

these are the kinds of allegations that are black and white on paper submitted to banks. >> okay, danny cevallos, many thanks, my friend. a former cia operative who lives in russia for years joins me next is talk about vladimir putin and his mentality around using nuclear weapons. s mentality around using nuclear weapons. using nuclear weapons. keep your laundry smelling fresh waaaay longer than detergent alone. if you want laundry to smell fresh for weeks, make sure you have downy unstopables in-wash scent boosters. you're worried about me taking care of my own payroll, but you're totally cool with me submitting my time, picking my benefits, managing my overtime, basically everything else. that's a good joke. - [narrator] empower your people to do their own payroll. paycom, employee-driven payroll. - hey, bruce. sorry to bother you again on my vacation, but i took a look at my paycheck, and it looks like a few numbers are missing. like, all of them. can i put this on the company card? - [narrator] when employees do their own payroll, they fix problems before they become problems. paycom, employ

. >> danny cevallos, thank you. >>> an alleged nazi sympathizer who stormed the capitol on january 6th just got sentenced to four years in lockup. tim mow think hale cusanelli he often dressed up as adolph hitler and had an enthusiasm with racist and anti-semetic motives. the man waiving the mob into the capitol and tried to intervene when a capitol police officer was trying to arrest the officer. he had no idea that congress met at the capitol the trump-appointed judge blasted the testimony. the judge convicted him on all counts meanwhile, the capitol rioter sentenced to two years probation and 100 hours of community service. steven ayers pleaded guilty. at the hearing he apologized to the court and to the american people >>> a rare and eye-opening sight across russia. people fleeing that country a day after vladimir putin called up 300,000 reserve troops to fight in ukraine it's the first such callup in rich shah since world war ii it showed the number of flights leaving russia many going to turkey, armenia, kazakhstan where russians can travel without a visa. look at this, the video

you'll recall, he even asked for russia's help, so it is remarkable plot twist, danny cevallos, that apparently the fbi thinks they might have been at mar-a-lago. we know that's not true. is there anything he just said in terms of that nonsense or his claims he could declassify things by thinking about it. is any of this true? >> jonathan, give me a minute. i am currently declassifies documents by thinking about them. it's surprising that trump would say declassification powers extend this far. more significant, i can't help but go back to the point andrew weissman said, which is how has this declassification theory helped donald trump. his attorneys won't go so far as to say it in a court filing. by the way, i sympathize with those attorneys. they are in a position, many is the time i have been put in a position by a client where i have to use some word salad to get around what the client wants to say in court but that i would never say in court. i sympathize with these lawyers. they have said, essentially, well, the president has the power to declassify documents, but they won't go