State of michigan saying, quote, make them riot. The Question Today beyond the Damming Narrative is whos listening. Joining us now, nbc News Correspondent Garrett haake whos in university center, michigan, for us, and nbc News Justice Reporter ryan reilly. I know the former president will be where you are, garrett, in a moment. Im going to start with ryan. As i said, ryan, the story here is not new. We know what Donald Trump tried to do around the 2020 election. We saw it happen in realtime. We had the January 6th hearings. There have been filings up until this point, a lot of them. But this new 165 Court Filing from Jack Smith gives us some more detail, more color, more insight into Donald Trumps State Of Mind in particular. What stood out to you, was there anything that was particularly damming . Personally, i think the volume of evidence of spreading lies stood out to me. That was going to be the challenge of this case. In 2020, i jokingly referred to this as the question of bad Fai
hurt its investigation. all of this as the former president s fight with the fbi could be on the verge of a new escalation. cnn learning that some trump allies are pushing him to publicly release surveillance video of that fbi search. i want to get to cnn s jessica snyder. the justice department has warned that make thing affidavit public would cause significant and irreparable damage to this ongoing criminal investigation. this is high stakes for the doj, alex. this hearing just started. we re seeing that the federal judge has just taken the bench. what we expect is the justice department prosecutors will be arguing to continue to keep this affidavit out of public view, keep it sealed. media organizations on the other hand, including cnn, are asking for the unsealing of this affidavit, saying in their filing it s in the public interest to get more details surrounding the mar-a-lago search. notably, they said it hasn t been since the nixon administration that government use
smollett did relinquish his $10,000 bond, which went back to the city, but he did not admit any wrongdoing and has maintained his innocence throughout. but it was a surprise to a lot of people that this case was suddenly dismissed. what we have already received are some documents from the courts. and i ll give you some examples of what are in those documents many of the things that we already know. for example, the court, you see the actual sealed stamp that the court put onto the document, so you couldn t even see the sealing order that the judge put forward, and that s because of a law, a newly enacted law in illinois that is basically to try to protect people who have been exonerated or who have had their charges dismissed, to keep them from not being able to get employment, for example. but the judge decided after media companies like cnn, the new york times, and others came forward and said, look, this is an exceptional case because he is a public figure, and the judge agreed
happened. they re prosecuting 12 of the soldiers. the question is is it going high enough? and in the piece, eric, you say then general stanley mcchrystal was briefed on this last may. we just saw these under spiegel last week and in your magazine now. that s right. what were the efforts if any by the pentagon to erase these files, keep them under wraps? the pentagon launched a massive effort to keep anyone from seeing these photographs. they knew they had another potential abu ghraib on their hand. they sent agents to confiscate hard drives and visit photos and keep them under wraps. in the ceiling order, they were placed under a court sealing order. the rationale was to make sure the trials wouldn t ab effected. in the sealing order they mentioned this would negatively impact the reputation of the
settlement of their divorce case to which she stands to make a lot of money. and the custody case. which actually is another one of the legal issues. and the ex-wife is supporting him, believe it or not, in the custody case. so there are so many legal things going on. and in addition, there was a sealing order on these tapes where the judge wanted the tapes sealed and not turned over to anybody. and if this woman has turned these tapes over to radar online or any other agencies after the he lling order gr that s a civil matter. i think that s a civil matter. we ll see what oksana does. we will. and there s an extortion claim, too, that she tried to extort him for $10 million that she wouldn t play the tapes. is we re at tso we re at the iceberg. we ll see you later in the hour and talk about lindsay lohan, roman polanski, is he coming