there innocent reasons for them? like wanting to do extra work at home, and it seems like we are way past that when you look at the time line and the number of exchanges that he had and his lawyers had with the government over the course of many months this past spring in which he was told repeatedly this is damaging to the nation. you cannot hold on to them. you should not have these documents and they just threw one reason after another back at the government for wanting to hold on to them. and notably, not one of them was he wanted to work at home on anything substantively. betsy woodruff swann, tali weinstein, thank you very much. pete strzok sticks around. breaking news on another one of trump s flashing legal woes of the past. the release just in the last few minutes of an unredacted memo from top trump doj officials to former attorney general bill barr. it was something he used around questions of obstruction of
scrutiny. this panel should order graham to show up in fulton county and testify. okay. i thank you for that answer and all of you. ken dilanian, betsy woodruff swann, thanks for the chat. more, the spike in threats against federal law enforcement officers since that search at mar-a-lago. what extremists are posting online. and it s the final stretch for congresswoman liz cheney s re-election campaign after she took on donald trump in a public way. and the humanitarian crisis unfolding in afghanistan one year after the fall of kabul. the needs on the ground and what experts say about the terror threat there today. experts say r threat there today despite treatment it disrupts my skin with itch. it disrupts my skin with rash. but now, i can disrupt eczema with rinvoq. rinvoq is not a steroid, topical, or injection. it s one pill, once a day, that s effective without topical steroids. many taking rinvoq saw clear or almost-clear skin
most important midterm races which is the race for the governor s mansion. that race is important because the pennsylvania governor is the top election administrator in a key swing state. whoever wins that race will play a key role in administering an election in the 2024 presidential race and the stakes are extremely high. whatever they have next has the potential to become consequential. make as much of a mess of it as they possibly can. betsy woodruff swann and harry littman, thank you both very much. it s been quite a week for president and his agenda. how democrats plan to use this to head into the midterms. we will talk about that next. hat
new reporting today about the doj criminal investigation into january 6th that s inched a little bit closer to the ex-president in recent weeks. usa today says trump s legal team is now in talks with doj officials making what they say an apparent attempt to use executive privilege to block conversations with his former top aides. it could be the first signs of exactly how much he s fearing the possibility of a criminal indictment. joining us now, national correspondent for politico and msnbc contributor betsy woodruff-swann and harry littman, former deputy assistant attorney general and he s the host of the show talking heads. i got my h mixed up there.
hesitant as many people have been, but i ve come to the view that the only thing worse than prosecuting him would be not prosecuting him. betsy, you have some brand-new reporting out that doug mastriano is threatening to back off his interview with the january 6th committee if they don t let his lawyers record the session? is this again about election disinformation? mastriano several months ago said that he would participate, he would cooperate with the january 6th committee and he turned over documents and the vast majority of the documents he turned over were public social media postings. at the time he said said he would participate in a voluntary interview. since theyaried thoed meetings that we all watched that we effectively viewed brief video clips from witnesses to make the case against trump, mastriano s lawyers are taking a different perspective saying they believe the committee could try to release selectively edited clips