lot of the lawyers that i ve talked to are wondering, okay, if they bring this, can they win it if it goes to trial? can they convince a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that donald trump himself would be guilty if he is charged? ? likely the big next question. caitlyn, kristin, thank you so much for joining us. really appreciate it. paulo, thank you as well. forgot about you at the courthouse. thank you for your reporting. this tees up a great question for our next guest, senior analyst ellie hoenig. will trump be indicted, which is why now. this investigation has been going on for four or five years. this is activity from seven years ago. others have looked into this, not charged. what do you make of this question? why is this suddenly heating up over the past few weeks? it s a great question and a fair one to ask. just to set the time line here, these payments were made in mid to late 2016, before the 2016
politically. we re covering all angles of this story from the manhattan criminal courthouse where trump could possibly be indicted to washington, d.c., where a political fallout from any arrest could impact the 2020 race for the white house. all right. caitlyn polanz, our senior crime and justice reporter is here. i want to start with you. what we know right now is that the former president s legal team has not been notified of any indictment. we know there s at least one more witness expected to go before the grand jury on monday. so it appears he s speculating, but we also know in the past few weeks this investigation has suddenly heated up. remind us what s going on in this case. where are we? paula, we re clearly in an investigation that s been going on for a long time and is now in the end game, the end stage. that is most evident because trump was invited to testify to the grand jury, declined to. he s the person that s clearly targeted here. that doesn t happen under new york
look at how paul whelen ended up behind bars and what he says about the charges against him. just days after more classified documents were found in a florida storage facility, sources tell cnn the u.s. justice department is asking a federal judge to hold donald trump in contempt of court. u.s. justice department argues that trump hasn t complied with the subpoena to return all classified materials t. a hearing is set for fly. cnn s caitlyn polanz explains what a contempt ruling might mean for the former president. reporter: a new development in the criminal investigation about the handling of documents at mar-a-lago after the trump presidency. the justice department has recently gone to court under seal and asked a federal judge to hold donald trump in contempt of court for failing to turn over additional records that he may have in his possession that could be national security
with app, cloud and anywhere workspace solutions, vmware helps companies navigate change meeting them where they are, and getting them where they want to be. faster. vmware. welcome change. welcome back. new this morning the national archives has asked the u.s. justice department to look into former president trump s handling of white house documents. the archives had to recover boxes of white house records which wound up down at mar-a-lago. cnn s caitlyn polanz joins us live on this story. caitlyn, the new york times takes this story a little bit further. they report late last night that the national archives was concerned that some of these records contained classified information. that was their belief. that, if true, is potentially far more significant and serious than just trump ripping up documents. that s right, laura.
deadline day for four trump aides to comply with subpoenas from the house committee investigating the january 6th insurrection. this committee wants documents from these folks. one of those aides, dan scavino, where in the world is he? nowhere to be found. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider joining us with more on the breaking news. tell us what you found. our team has been going through these 2,000 court documents. it is a team that includes tyranny snead and caitlyn polanz. they found top trump allies admitting under oath in depositions they did nothing to verify all these false claims that they went on television to spout and that they repeated for weeks after the election, rudy giuliani admitting in his deposition that in one set of allegations he only reviewed them for about an hour. so all of this is coming out because of the former executive for dominion voting systems eric coomer. he s suing the former trump campaign attorneys rudy giuliani and sydney powell for defa