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After buzzfeed published the dossier. and this guy, this other guy was the chief of staff of the fbis cyber division, top cyber incident response guy at the national security council, he was hired by buzzfeed as part of them fighting this lawsuit. to produce a report -- look at the data and produce an expert report basically to determine whether those allegations in the dossier about that guy and the bot nets and the porn traffic and how exactly they used that stuff to get at these democratic do...

Products. a similar discovery process in court is what pulled back the mask on the tobacco industry and what that industry knew what it was selling to the american people and how. discovery in the tobacco cases forced that industry into a quarter trillion dollar settlement that became the beginning of the end of that industry. here for me, though, is maybe the part of this that will be most important to watch. in their ruling today, these judges in the connecticut supreme court said it will fall...

Ross testified how he added a question about citizen ship to the census because the justice department asked him do that. >> we have had a request as everyone is aware from the department of justice to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. we are responding solely to the department of justices request. >> since that testimony in the discovery process of a lawsuit, e-mails have been revealed showing that wilber ross staff made repeated requests to the justice department to send them a re...

Indistinguishable from clinton verses jones. im joined by msnbc contributor. both of you know what youre talking about. i dont. how much is this like president clinton when he had to defend himself in a deposition that got him into all kinds of problems in the 90s? >> it wasnt unanimous. but think about this. theres actual language from the appellate court in new york that says the presidency and the president are indeed separable. and so now donald trump has to face the music in a state court i...

About the russia investigation. the special counsel is arguing in court that information they handed over to a russian company as part of the discovery process in their legal battle with them has somehow ended up on line pushed by a pro russia twitter account. its more than 1,000 documents that we are talking about. kara, these documents were also alterred. what are you hearing about this? >> all of this was revealed in a court filing yesterday against concord management known as putins chef bec...

Media disinformation campaign. during this discovery process of where the prosecutors shared information that they have obtained with their investigation with the defense they revealed some of the nonsensitive information. according to the special counsels office some of the information has ended up on line out of a twitter account based in russia. that includes over 1,000 files and includes some alterred documents which the prosecutors say was aimed to give the impression to discredit their inv...

Discovery. they dont have a right to disclose it in public. i think they are going to end up with a middle ground here because the defends need to see some of this. i think they may require them to sign some nondisclosure agreement even if it is not enforceable. at the end of the day the justice department has a choice. if they refuse to come, you cant try someone without showing them what you have. >> thats the fascinating legal conundrum of counter intelligence cases that we are talking about ...

Into their servers and show you all their secrets. according to this filing today, robert mueller, the special counsel says nobody actually broke into their servers. nobody has actually violated their own security in the special counsels office. what ended up online in russia was the material that was sent to these lawyers for concord management as part of the criminal case, as part of the discovery process. and in this case there is a protective order from the court which says that any material...

Journalists. barbara mcquade is the former attorney for the eastern district of michigan. she joins us tonight. thank you very much for being here. >> thanks for having me, rachel. >> first, you explained about what i understand as the discovery process and the duty of prosecutors to hand over the defense of the case theyre making in a criminal case like that. did i get that basically right? did i screw any of that right? >> no, you got it exactly right. the defendant is entitled to see the evid...

Effort or a kremlin adjacent effort to have them sort of -- have their cake and eat it too. i mean, none of their actual citizens, no actual russian citizens, including this russian oligarch would ever step foot in a u.s. courtroom. none of them would ever have any actual vulnerability to u.s. justice, but by having this corporate entity, concord management, this company actually turn up in u.s. federal court as a criminal defendant, it appears what they hoped theyd act establish by that was tha...