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Last year, walt testified that trump personally instructed him to move these boxes, information that was corroborated by some of the surveillance footage that was also obtained by the special counsels office that had, you know, that showed this storage room, people moving in and out of it before and after the subpoena was issued for that inflames search warrant investigated by the fbi. >> we talked about the fact that donald trump was averting everybodys eyes to manhattan, most likely, our belie...

Stay up all night? this is trump attorney evan comer, not the only -- but hes also representing the primary point of contact with the national archive and the doj for nearly a year now. a ton of this case seems to be about trumps potential obstruction of justice. the trumps lawyer since april of 22, and that is all very relevant here. you might remember that back in june of last year, a few months prior to the fbi search of mar-a-lago, trumps lawyers gave a statement to the department of justice...

With that done at his clients suggestion, and if so, how did that all come together? >> those are the kinds of questions the you can try to focus on. a statement is the kind of centerpiece for the obstruction case, right? the notion that the trump legal team says that, do you know what guys? theyve got everything. what we know about the statement is evan corcoran drafting it, but christina bobb, a different lawyer signs in. i wonder if you are interested for the sort of choreography of the signi...

Friday. the actual legal judgment remains under scaled, and they havent independently confirmed friday is the date that it will happen, but the key witness to the mar-a-lago classified documents obstruction of justice case is now fair game for special counsel jack smith. this begs the question, are we on a watch now for indictments in the plural? joining us now, nbcs senior legal correspondent and kyle cheney, senior legal affairs writer for politico. as we try to understand exactly what is happ...

At mar-a-lago. key parts of this investigation for how these documents got into trumps residence in the very first place, and whether trump moving them there might have been an attempt to obstruct justice. the washington post reported last year that the department of justice had gathered evidence, indicating that trump told people to move boxes to his residence after his legal team had received a subpoena for mar-a-lagos security camera footage. once the doj got ahold of that footage, it alleged...

After that, special counsel smiths team had until six a.m. to file their response. they literally had to pull in all-nighter. what is so important that the court of appeals in d.c. decided that they could not even wait one day, and instead needed jack smiths team to stay up all night? this is trump attorney evan comer, not the only -- but hes also representing the primary point of contact with the national archive and the doj for nearly a year now. a ton of this case seems to be about trumps pot...

Announcing the knees of running for president, the reporting that we had, and especially in the washington post, was that the doj was close to charging that division in the mar-a-lago case last fall, and obviously that did not come to pass. special counsel jack smith is pointed to run this. its now march, months later, but as laura points out, we are talking about the presidents lawyer being subpoenaed, going forward, providing that evidence, what is your estimation about what else we might expe...

Returned. devin corcoran drafted that statement, and another trump lawyer signed it. two months later, the fbi found more than 100 classified documents in a storage area, and in trumps own office in his familys personal residence at mar-a-lago. key parts of this investigation for how these documents got into trumps residence in the very first place, and whether trump moving them there might have been an attempt to obstruct justice. the washington post reported last year that the department of ju...

Now today, that same appeals court has ruled in jack smiths favor. they refused to grant the trumps team appeal, meaning that fridays ruling, the attorney client privilege, that can take effect. cnn and cvs are both reporting that he is sent to testify on friday. the actual legal judgment remains under scaled, and they havent independently confirmed friday is the date that it will happen, but the key witness to the mar-a-lago classified documents obstruction of justice case is now fair game for ...

-- the first case brought against the former president. a first piece of news was that manhattan district attorney alvin bragg, who is overseeing the stormy daniels case, he called called the scheduled grand jury, we dont know why he did that, and we will get some expert legal help breaking that down later this hour. for now, the bottom line is the no indictment in that case is happening today. thats number one. number two has to do with special counsel jack smiths investigation into whether tru...