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Smith is investigating whether trump scammed his ow supporters to raise money, which should be wire fraud and then whether he used that mone to pay the legal fees of relevant witnesses in a bid to influence their testimony? which would be obstruction o justice. well, okay then. coming up, my interview with john leguizamo about his new msnbc series, and what it wa like to host a daily show, the night the news that trump ha been indicted? that was next. ♪ ♪ [ cat purrs ] [ phone vibrates ] int...

He will not appeal a judge ruling ordering him to testify before the special counsel jac smiths january 6th grand jury joining me now is neil - former acting solicitor genera of the united states saunders professor a georgetown university. and an msnbc legal analyst welcome back to the sunday show what would he want to lear from the former vice president if you are special counsel jac smith. >> first of all, i think jonathan this whole question o pences arising in a uniqu historical moment. for ...

Not to do something, publi opinion turning against him, you know, the examples are endless. nothing stopped him. so will this change hi behavior his demeanor his conduct? his approach >> we will soon find out our panel is going to stic with us. coming up -- by trump in the mar-a-lago documents case what it could mean for jac smiths investigation. and later, congressman ted lie and ted miller are here on the politics of the indictment but theyll be weighing in on th big gun violence protest i nas...

Jack smith. he is running tw investigations that are very different in nature. one has t do with the oddity of keepin classified materials i mar-a-lago and the other o course is the much large investigation into january 6th and what he has done has bee to work his way up the totem pole here of witnesses and now he sits with the vice presiden getting testimony about what was going on in very, very confidential situations within the white house walls. i think at that point, once he has all of that...

Carol, this was a busy week. any other week where a forme president wasnt indicted, thi ruling in favor of jack smith, or for jack smith investigation, that would have been the headline. it would have been what we wer talking about through th entire hour. but we are talking about this bit less because of what has happened to the former president. how significant of a ruling wa this that mike pence has t comply or a testify in jac smiths investigation? >> that part of the ruling i very significan...

Arguably even more serious and the one that trumps bee indicted for that are still opening they are under the handling of the special counsel, jac smith. so any idea that there would b any interference, or politically motivated, i extremely toxic for biden. and as you saw that clip there three times he was pressed the answer was no. and its gonna continue to b no in the coming days. and i think that the questio is, when does the true biden feeling pop through, and whe does he have to address it ...

More indictments which i think were gonna see from fulto county fani willis and special counsel jack smith do you think that donald wil still be enjoying this type of support from his party >> well it does seem to me tha he has been able to very successfully play the victim and that will likely continue. its hard to see republicans moving away from donald trump, i think the ones who are running for the nomination are hesitant to do that. because they do not want t alienate donald trumps base don...

R/$pd beholde1 this court by 3 said trump is wrong, that these documents and these audio tapes by corcoran havee1 to go to jac smith, the special counsel who ise1 investigating the stolen documents. >> hugo, i want to follow up with you on this. this idea of attorneys being sort of wrapped up ine1 the criminality of donald trump, always something amazing to me because you would thinkr pátorn about, okay, how is the best way to represeu3 my client, but they also have to be thinking about their o...

Jury and plead the fifth invoke his fifth amendment right against self incrimination and then jac smiths team will have a decision to make today grant evan corcora immunity and compels testimony, which would almost certainly incriminate his client donal trump, or if they have enoug evidence, they can actuall prosecute have been corcoran for his crimes the stakes are pretty high right now forever corcoran >> peter, to that point, tal us through what we need to kno about evan corcoran. what was it...

Position, to hear from folks under oath who were saying one thing but quite another when they are in front of donors or supporters on the campaign trail. so certainly an interestin observation from them. yeah, kind of a statement on where we are politically >> it made me jealous. journalists like us dont have truth through administer sometimes when youre trying t a source who would like to hav it this is the closest that exist under law. this we should also say is not as i said, the three car an...