what do you think this could be related to? is it trump? is it executive privilege? we or do we see the meeting of this mines? so, if you think of everybody who is kind of in the crosshairs of the justice department, in this we summons reporting from new york times, is that herschmann, the white house lawyer who gave fantastic testimony, to the january six committee in terms of credible testimony, very compelling the new york times says that trump s lawyers were trying to block him asserting executive privilege because he has been handed a gradually subpoena from the d. c. court. there they are, to have the people that are mentioned in the new york times report, walking out of that courtroom, are the ones that were the interlocutors of herschmann, trying to block him, and the new york times report says that he said to them,, well if why did you get a court order to block me. then maybe i wouldn t testify. there s this kind of tantalizing into the new york times story, which is that
on multiple occasions, he told top justice department officials to prosecute clinton. he ordered his white house counsel, don mcgahn, to get the justice department to prosecute her. according to the new book from journalist peter baker and susan glasser, trump not only repeatedly pressured his attorneys general to prosecute clinton, but told don mcgahn that if they win, he would prosecute her himself as president. and until the white house counsel that had to explain to trump that presidents, no, they cannot prosecute people. that s not how any of this works. donald trump campaigned on it. he tried to do it as president. and here we are, more than a year and a half after he left office and don t trump is still at it. after he s no good, very bad
pressure campaign on vice president mike pence. and after all the behind the scenes maneuvering and cajoling, ginni thomas, the wife of us sitting supreme court justice, attended the january 6th rally where, of course, donald trump urged the crowd to march to the capital and stop the democratic process. like i, said it will be a lot to talk to ginni thomas about. meanwhile, in a separate investigation into january 6th, this one courtesy of the department of justice, something curious happened today outside the federal d.c. courthouse. eagle hyde nbc reporter saw three trump lawyers leaving the courthouse, around the same time as the justice department s lee january 6th prosecutor. we do not know why trump s lawyers were there. but jacqui alameda of the washington post reports tonight, for a person familiar with the matter, they were there, president in their capacity, we are presenting the january 6th investigation. joining us now is ryan goodman, former special counsel at the
unfettered access to these classified documents they found at mar-a-lago? what will their investigation look like? after all, don t trump him self has spent years telling us, mishandling classified documents is a very, very, very serious crime. joining us now is david bill, executive editor of the new yorker.com. david, great to see, you thanks for joining me. so, what is the justice department doing right now? now that they have these hundred documents that they can use, i think law enforcement officials will investigate the hell out of this. they want to now finally go question tons of people and law enforcement that they had some sort of leads that they want to pursue. one of them, and this is not confirmed, not confirmed that they have a lead that trump was possibly showing some of these classified documents the people at mar-a-lago, very reckless handling of and they probably dovetails with a criminal investigation here to, right? that is not something a former
looking at any of the documents seized from trump s house. and today, that to district judge amended her order to comply with the 11th circuit reversal. so, now her order no longer says the doj can not look at those 100 classified documents. when questioned legal ask sports are now questioning asking is, does that mean there s no reason for trump to appeal to the supreme court even if he wants to? is this done? and if so, what does the justice department do now? going forward, will they have unfettered access to these classified documents they found at mar-a-lago? what will their investigation look like? after all, don t trump him self has spent years telling us, mishandling classified documents is a very, very, very serious crime. joining us now is david bill, executive editor of the new yorker. com. david, great to see, you thanks for joining me. so, what is the justice department doing right now? now that they have these hundred documents that they can use, i think law enforcement