crucial witnesses in any of these trump probes. i m talking about the man atop the white house during the january 6th insurrection, and he was chief of staff during that period, chaotic and otherwise of trump s departure when we know the secretive classified documents were taken, stolen, or mishandled. the man you see on the screen is your witness, mark meadows. the times has just crossed that news in the last few minutes. we have that news. we ve also got this video, providing a rare look at trump council jack smith heading to work today, apparently escorted by security. msnbc news cameras with this exclusive. i want to show you what we have here. it s the first known video of smith going about his job, going to work in this role. the at the high stakes job with where his approach has been discreet, secretive, and low profile. we can show you how the reporter did his job today, asked the questions, and smith responded by showing exactly how he does his job no comment wha
hosted by alex witt will start at 5:00 a.m. eastern. that is going to do it for me. deadline white house begins right now. hi there, everyone. happy friday. it s 4:00 in new york. donald trump s once loyal attorney general bill barr recently said that the classified documents probe was the most threatening to trump, and brand new reporting in the new york times reveals why that may be the case. new york times out with some blockbuster new reporting that shows that special counsel jack smith is leaving no stone unturned in his pursuit of answers to questions about trump s conduct. namely, whether he sought to obstruct efforts by the government to get back classified documents. some of which contained incredibly sensitive national security secrets. from that new times story, quote, federal prosecutors investigating former president trump s handling of classified documents have obtained the confidential cooperation of a person who has worked for him at mar-a-lago. it
oversee all aspects of justice department. paula reid is following all of this. paula, let s just start with these five additional pages of classified material that were found at the president s home in delaware. what do you know about that. reporter: these were found uncovered at the president s wilmington home. let s take a step back. right now there are approximately 20 known documents of classified markings have been uncovered at two different locations connected to the president. the first is his former office here in d.c. we know ten documents have been uncovered there. and they include top secret information. the rest of the material has been uncovered at his wilmington home and there was one document that they thought consisted of a single page and they realized last week it was six pages consisting of multiple documents. and now, john, i m sure a lot of people asking. well is this it? and i could tell you, we have no idea. because we still know from our sources t
flint, michigan. up first just before midnight justice department legal filing and what it tells us about the case against donald trump. the 36-page filing is full of critical new details. they include three classified documents in desks inside the former president s office. more than 100 documents in 13 boxes with classification markings inside the former president s residence. some of those documents so secret the fbi and d orkoj persl charged with reviewing them needed to get additional security clearances. the filing includes this stunning photograph, a smattering of highly classified documents with unmistakably clear, top secret and sci markings laid out on a mar-a-lago carpet next to a time of framed magazine covers and this, too, justice department lawyers now allege mr. trump and his attorneys likely committed a crime by obstructing a federal investigation. stopping fbi agents from looking through boxes of records and in one instance, signing off on a sworn statemen
also, trump attorney jim trusty joins us to talk about the parallels between what happened when hillary clinton was investigated for mishandling documents and the trump raid. the doj explains how many documents they have went through that breaking today. first up, back to school day for one of mine and probably many of years as well across this country. some covid restrictions are lingering around certain corners of the country and parents not happy about it. in our nation s capitol, some students now have a january deadline to get vaccinated or else they will not be allowed back to school. in philadelphia, there kids will start the year, there s some images of them, masked up once again with hope of relief from that in the near future. joining me now with the breaking news as everybody gets back to school, betsy devos. great to have you with us. obviously schools have suffered so much. students have suffered so much over the past several years. now we re doing to give it ano