he stated he pled the fifth under the advice of counsel declining to answer the questions. this striking legal development, which we ll get into comes just two days after august 8, 2022 when the fbi searched a former president s home. both developments show the depths of donald trump s legal problems. neither means that he is in a legal sense guilty of anything to be precise. both mean that the concerns about donald trump s guilt about law breaking, about criminal evidence and criminal activity stretch from the highest levels of the doj to a separate new york probe to inside donald trump s mind. only he can make the decision that he made today. and let me tell it to you in plain english, it s a right he can exercise, but he made the decision, donald trump did that he faces a higher risk by testifying truthfully in the new york probe, which he chose not to do than by pleading the fifth, which he chose to do. it is a legal but a controversial move, which he has probably derided
with this reporting, quote, the former president has called witnesses throughout the investigation according to those who spoke anonymously to reveal conversations. they ruled out a number of former officials as the recipient of this latest call highlighted by cheney saying it was not former white house counsel pat cipollone whose deputy patrick philbin, former media officials, matthews or former pascale. the allegations of witness tampering by trump and his associates, though, do add new dimension to the wider scandal that is to overturn the 2020 election results which, as vice chair liz cheney added, trump was, quote, substantially and personally involved in. politico reports on the dual track of the committee s public hearings with this analysis. on the one hand, the committee is focused on filling out the historical record of the attempt to overturn the election and its violent conclusion. on the other, its members are laying out an unmistakable map to a potential crimina
i love that. i was starting to join you. but you want me to cut it off now? my viewers are like, no. thank you good to see you, have a good one! a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome everyone to alex witt reports. we begin to another new legal filing of the fbi search to mar-a-lago, this is in addition to the head spinning legal documents in the last few hours. the newest one is from donald trump himself. it s a supplemental failing to support trump s request for a special master to review items seized by the fbi. in its, trump s lawyers are also asking for more detailed receipts from items seized in the fbi search, arguing that the redacted affidavit provides almost no information that would allow trump to understand why the search took place. or what was taken from his home. they also argued that the presidential records act is not a criminally enforceable statute. and new reaction from both sides of the aisle to the relea
that hearing will take place after the committee has videotaped the testimony of pat cipollone. cipollone, think, is the trump white house s top lawyer. he s a man who, at least as far as we know, appears to have pushed back on some of the most dangerous and brazen ideas conceived of by the ex-president and his closest allies as they worked to overturn the results of the 2020 election. cipollone also held the same job as john dean whose legendary 1973 testimony was a turningpoint in the watergate investigation. here is what january 6 investigator john wood had to say right here on msnbc about the tremendous significance of the committee getting an interview with cipollone. it was really important that he would eventually end up testifying before the committee and on the record and videotaped so the american people can see it. i m glad that is coming together this friday so hopefully the committee will show some of the key clips of that interview during a hearing next week.
violent actions. you ll also hear from stephen ayres who was directly influenced by president trump s tweet to travel to washington for a day he said would be wild. and there is immense pressure on the committee today in what could be a put up or shut up moment to prove to the nation that there is a direct link between former president donald trump and those extremists responsible for the chaos at the capitol. there s a lot of expectation on new video clips of former white house counsel pat cipollone from his nearly eight-hour deposition last week. what did he tell the committee about what he advised the president on and around january 6th, and what did he corroborate from the testimony of others, specifically cassidy hutchinson. ladies, listen, just to get us up to speed on what we have seen so far, there s been a number of hearings, a number of weeks between them, just to catch us all up. remember the first one started with him knowing that he lost, being told that he los