charges, in this case is jus the tip of the iceberg washington post reports that a federal judge has grante prosecutors requests to forc trump lawyer evan coren to testify before grand jury abou the former president possession of classified documents. he handled the initial respons to requests for trump s team t return the documents, an refused to until investigators questions, citing attorney client privilege that defense is now gone joining me now, former actin solicitor general of the unite states professor of law georgetow university, and msnbc lega analyst. anthony, holy former directo of the author of public affair in the department justice, and former senior adviser to attorney general merrick garland. and pulitzer prize-winning journalist charlie savage. washington correspondent for the new york times, msnb contributor, and author of power wars, the relentless ris of presidential authority an secrecy. what a powerhouse panel i have with me this morning i m going to st
garland justice department, it was not the obama justic department that was the donald trum justice department, saying those things some of these already gone t jail for that when you hear republicans say, this is all spun up int nonsense, it s hard to explain that last trump justic department indictments right, anthony since her nam is been about a couple of time by neal, a couple of questions how does the justice departmen view what trump did yesterday? what he said yesterday in th social media post? speaker mccarthy s promis to use the highest power o investigation to investigate the israeli general. is this something that raise alarm bells within doj, and in particular maybe or maybe not?
i think he is trying to gin up his supporters, encourage them to go to the streets in defens of him under the suspicion tha he will be indicted in new york i think that is something he will do with respect to all of the other cases, as well you are a member of the house. house speaker mccarthy in tweet yesterday called o trump s potential arrest a quote, outrageous abuse of power. he says he is directin relevant communities t immediately investigate th federal funds are being used to, as he says, subvert ou democracy. your reaction to what he says, and the fact that the speake of the house is doing this it is really incredibly dangerous, and very pathetic a the same time. this is a moment we all need t understand the importance of the rule of law in thi country. no one is above the law. we have a judicial system that we should have tremendou confidence and faith in. all leaders, whether republican,