involving the doj s investigation of classified documents at mar-a-lago. the trump team has one more hour now to officially weigh in on unsealing the documents before a judge hears the case this afternoon. the doj is opposing their release. various media organizations including cnn are requesting that they be unsealed. also happening this morning, the trump organization s former chief financial officer allen weisselberg is expected to plead guilty to a 15-year tax fraud scheme. the new york times reports that justice department has subpoenaed white house records in its investigation into january 6th. that s separate from the mar-a-lago search. and in georgia, rudy giuliani appeared before an atlanta-area grand jury for roughly six hours as the target, a target of the probe into efforts to subvert the election there. we want to circle back, though, to the case of the documents obtained at mar-a-lago. short time ago i spoke with donald trump s former impeachment lawyer davi
30 minutes ago, flanked by his attorney from new york, bob costello, and as he exited the vehicle, i was able to ask him a couple of questions, including if he lied to georgia lawmakers when he appeared before them three times in the wake of the 2020 election. listen to his answers. mr. giuliani, when you met with georgia lawmakers, did you lie to them? we will not talk about this until it is over. it is a grand jury and grand juries as i recall are secret. do you believe president trump is the ultimate target of this investigation? i m not going to comment on the grand jury investigation. what do you think their ultimate goal is here? what are you expecting to talk about here today? they ask the questions and we ll see. will you be cooperative? your attorney in new york says he can t promise how responsive you ll be? good-bye. reporter: a bit of an awkward moment for giuliani, he got here just before those doors opened in the fulton county courthouse, so he
every other american citizen in this situation. that was the chairman of the january 6th select committee, bennie thompson, weighing in on the report that former president trump plans to run for president again to help him avoid criminal charges. good morning and welcome to morning joe. we ve got a lot to get to on this tuesday, july 19th. in a moment, we re going to talk about the two trump white house officials who will testify in thursday s primetime hearing by the january 6th committee, as the panel shifts its focus to the three hours of inaction by former president trump during the attack on the capitol. plus, a defendant without a defense? opening arguments in steve bannon s contempt trial get under way in a few hours, despite the judge dismissing almost all of bannon s legal options. meanwhile, senator lindsey graham is fighting a subpoena in georgia, but the court documents only refer to him as mr. graham. we ll explain why that s significant. dozens of deva
them to the federal government, but despite all of that the fbi still recovered 11 sets marked as classified documents when they did the search last monday. that included documents, john, that were marked at every level of classification in the system, including the most sensitive types of documents that are not to be represent anywhere but in special secured rooms called skiffs. those seized boxes are evidence in an ongoing criminal appropriate plus the justice department will look at all of the interactions that investigators had with trump s team over the past several month and that s going to be all factoring in as they decide whether anyone should be charged with a crime. no one has been charged at this time. there are a lot of questions about exactly what these documents pertain to. two house committees have asked for a classified briefing as well as a damage assessment from the intelligence community and trump for his part, he is indicating that his team could try to c
and they want any work paused before the potential third party review is done. so we want to bring in dave aronberg, state attorney for palm beach county, florida. good early morning to you. i want to start here, is there any legitimacy to this request for a special master from the trump team or is this just another one of his delay tactics that we ve seen play out in cases throughout his long legal history? good morning, omar. it is a delay tactic because he is too late to ask for this. the whole thing is moot. this is what happens when you have trouble finding experienced criminal defense lawyers to represent you, you end up litigating the case in right wing media instead of a courtroom and then the clock runs out. because it is difficult to justify the extraordinary request for a special master two weeks after your home has been searched. you waited too long. and, you know, these documents have almost certainly been reviewed already by the department of justice. and that