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good morning, everyone. phil is making jokes before 6:00 a.m. its friday. were glad youre with us. five things to know for this friday, september 8th. we want to start with weather breaking overnight. hurricane lee intensify ing int a category 5 storm with sustained winds of 160 miles per hour. that was double what it was 24 hours ago. the big question, is it going to hit the east coast or make a turn and stay in the atlantic. and eight sightings, but an escaped murderer is still on ...

Times that the kind of people involved in that not a hardened old corkoecorey lewendowski wasn hardened. But he wasnt digital either. By the way, im going to talk about how to identify trolls. We talk so much about them. I feel like theyre the ones that theyre the ones who have the ready made pictures with the graphics and their youre on to something. Im on to you. All right, ill see you in a little bit, thank you, katie. Were watching two major stories today involving the white house, Cyb Cyber...

A recap of the days news. Firing. He was there shoaleder to shoulder he Doesnt Know What Mueller knows. It seems implausible to me that he doesnt provide factual material thats illuminating about the president s state of mind. So i think raeurlts little bit over confident to be saying that at this point. But the real question is why would trumps lawyers not debrief mcgahn . The white House Counsel has given 30 hours of interviews. Much of which the Trump Legal Team is in the dark with. Its like ...

Grand jury. his attorney is this guy stan woodward, who is also representing walt nauta, trumps co-defendant. he was late to a hearing, a verdict reading for a writer on january 6th. he got in trouble from the judge because he was late to that, and he had to tell the judge it was because he was dealing with executive privilege issues for will russell over here as he is testifying in front of the grand jury. >> so is this guy russell getting his attorney paid for by a political action committee o...

Representing other people, walt nauta, trumps codefendant. he was late to a hearing, a verdict reading for someone, a rioter at january 6th. he got in trouble from the judge, because he was late to. that he had to tell the judges, who because he was dealing with executive privilege issues, for will russell over here, as he is testifying in front of the grand jury that is hearing evidence on this. >> so is this guy russell, getting his attorney paid for by a political axe action community -- >> s...

Producer said, a few minutes later, she saw two men entering the same area of the third floor after telling a martial they were here for the grand jury, so we can maybe guess, with an educated backing that pat cipollone was talking to the grand jury for the d.o.j., and there is also "the new york times" reporting that other trump aides have done so as well, dan scavino jr., also social media guru, they call him william russell, william b. harrison, so these people are close to donald trump and p...

Where this goes next. thank you all for being with us tonight. lets get more on mark meadows and the court ruling that makes him the latest in a long line of people in the presidents circle to have tried and failed to avoid giving testimony to the georgia grand jury, attempting to overturn the 2020 election there. sarah murray has the latest and is with us now. why was mark meadows trying to fight the subpoena? what do prosecutors in georgia want to know from him? >> well, its in south carolina....

We need to do something more. theyre literally calling for the vice president to be hung. mark responded, you heard it, pat, he thinks mike deserves it, he doesnt think theyre doing anything wrong. to which pat said this is crazy we need to do more. >> that was a window into what mark meadows could talk about. he could provide critical testimony into what was going on in donald trumps state of mind. he was a high ranking official as the chief of staff. right now the doj is working through execut...

Truly play within anything, with respect to anything other than attorney-client privilege information. put aside the issues of whether or not she should accuse. the procedural, the subs event -- trump teams arguments. there is never been a special masters for executive privilege issues. theres never been one for classified information. i litigate on matters implicating classified information all the time. i wasnt quite a couple weeks ago on a preliminary injunction hearing for stuff along the li...

So, former trump white house counsel, pat cipollone, has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury investigating -- to overturn the 2020 election. sources tell cnn that cipollone and his attorneys are discussing ways of how theyre going to handle the supreme court under grand jury, including how to deal with executive privilege issues. as to the sources, abc news to report the subpoena. i want to bring in now, senior legal analyst, elie honig, and senior -- susan glasser. good evening to both of y...