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that does it for a special coverage primetime special coverage this evening but we have much more ahead and now its time for the last word with a great lawrence odonnell. >> we have breaking e. jean carroll knows which away began on your show with your interview with e. jean carroll and her lawyer, and that is in the lawsuit, she has another lawsuit against donald trump for all the comments he made about her, and today a federal judge, luis kaplan, granted e. jean carrolls request to r...

of the special counsel jack smith ongoing investigation into trumps mishandling of classified information and his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. this is a major development, and we are going to talk about it in just a minute with representative jamie raskin, who served on the january 6th committee. but we start with mar-a-lago. at this point you probably have seen a picture of trumps florida resort, once the winter getaway of areas -- mar-a-lago it is massive. it sits on about ...

chris christie on stage. somehow by hook or by crook. thanks, chris. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. we start tonight with significant breaking news. "the new york times" is confirming that mark meadows, donald trumps former chief of staff, has testified to a federal grand jury as part of special counsel jack smiths ongoing investigations into trumps mishanding of classified information and his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. this is a major development, and ...

possibility. >> right? somehow, by hook or by crook. >> good talker. >> thanks, chris. thank you to you at home for joining us this hour. we start tonight with significant breaking news, the new york times is confirming that mark meadows, donald trumps former chief of staff has testified to a federal grand jury as part of special counsels jack smith ongoing investigations into trumps mishandling of classified information and his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. this is a major de...

Reasons, and it certainly doesnt mean that trump is going to be charged in florida, or anything like that. what it means is that they do think that there is evidence of criminal wrongdoing going on in florida, as well as in washington d. c. . up until a few weeks ago, it looked like this case was headed towards jack smith indicting in florida. but donald trump himself made it more likely when he appeared on the cnn town hall and said i made all these classification decisions in washington d. c. ...

Or anything like that. what it means is that they do think that there is evidence of criminal wrongdoing going on in florida, as well as in washington d.c.. up until a few weeks ago, it looked like this case was headed towards jack smith indicting in florida. but donald trump himself made it more likely when he appeared on the cnn town hall and said i made all these classification decisions in washington d.c., and that was music to jack smiths ears. you could have the prosecution going in both p...

And i think it always showed it started because the russians were in contact with at least four members of the trump campaign. lets investigate, get that information on the table and also get the information about tax returns, contact with russia and georgia bank and accounting members, strong-arming congress and losing subpoenas on. we should get as many facts on the table. the different point is these classification decisions at the cia and intelligence agencies, courting them over to the part...

Declassifying things because these are the matters that he wants declassified. but it is certainly not going to be total transparency in the sense of releasing everything that is the basis for this investigation. >> you say total transparency. that is not consistent for intelligence operations. is there is a legal case to challenge this move? >> probably not. under the law the president has ultimate authority over all classification decisions. and if he wants something dehe classified, he can de...