set expectations for what could and would happen next because it does seem like something is happening. today our cameras caught three of donald trump s lawyers at the department of justice minutes after they left, donald trump started posting about the case saying, quote, how can doj possibly charge me, who did nothing wrong, when no other presidents were charged? so does donald trump know something we do not? joining us is senior legal correspondent laura jarrett and nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. donald trump s lawyers were at doj, ken. do we know who they were meeting with? we know who they weren t meeting with. attorney general garland and deputy attorney general lisa mona core were not involved. presumably it was with career officials who have some oversight over this case and are briefed on this case. it s very common for defense attorneys to come in at the end of an investigation and make their case to management at the justice departm
of an investigation and make their case to management at the justice department that their client shouldn t be indicted. and it s just one more piece of evidence that this investigation appears to be reaching its end. one more piece of evidence. so we have that. we have donald trump tweeting right after it. can we take that to mean anything? donald trump talking about charging minutes after his lawyers walk snout. i mean, i think we ve seen in the past, we saw in the new york case, when the heat starts to turn up, trump often, you know, comes out with these all caps inflammatory tweets denouncing prosecutors and then prosecutors take action. so look, forget about trump for a second. his former lawyer was on meet the press yesterday and said that he believed that since the grand jury hadn t met since may, that jack smith, the special counsel, was reaching a charging decision in this case. now he thinks it s possible that there won t be charges, but that