it s 4:00. we ve got news we have a behind the scenes legal battle with potentially major consequences for the justice department s investigation into the ex-president s handling of classified documents at mar-a-lago the washington post is reporting this quote, a federal judge has at least partially granted a request from u.s. prosecutors to force an attorney for donald trump to testify before a grand jury about the former president s possession of classified documents after leaving office that s according to two people briefed on the decision. evan corcoran had refused to answer investigators questions about his interactions with trump. prosecutors sought to show the chief u.s. guess strict judge beryla.howell of washington that there were grounds of a crime-fraud exception. they spoke anonymously because this is under seal this breaking news is is where we start today with some of our favorite reporters and friends jackie alamany is here her by-line is on that neil is here
three different codifications including an unspecified number labeled ts slash sci. documents are sensitive that they could only be viewed in secure locations. this part of the trump drama appears to have started in june, when trump was hit with a federal subpoena for classified documents. according to new reporting from the new york times, at this trump one trump lawyer signed a statement saying that all information marked as classified mar-a-lago had been returned. for people with knowledge of the document, msnbc news has not independently verified this report and trump has not responded to nbc s request for comment. this isn t trump s only legal whoa in the news. two days after the mar-a-lago search, he pleaded the fifth more than 440 times in a deposition with the office of attorney general tish james, leading a civil investigation into his business practices. joining me now, an all-star panel. congress dean of pennsylvania, a former house of. manager anna house chair
earliest days of his presidency. there was extraordinary reporting that his first national security adviser, h.r. mcmaster, and his deputy had to force him in repeated confrontations to commit to america s commitment to nato on a foreign trip through europe. he s been disinterested in being part of the west and interested in propping up putin from day one. how did you hear these comments? reporter: right i think the word i often come back to with donald trump out of this is the word justification, right. just here this last week suggesting that the attack on the capitol wouldn t have happened if it weren t for mike pence, essentially justifying what ultimately happened on that day. when you re talking about just last year, you know, you ll recall the statement in which he made, quote, a massive fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of rules, regulations, and articles, each those found in the constitution. he called for a new presidential election, again justifyi
and they re not questioning those that didn t act. that to me istiid a story, especially if the goal would be to never have this happen again. now. we have written proof beyond that nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, mayor bowser werer, derelict in their duty. they committed gross misfeasance and they found scapegoats. scapegoatsd the two sergeants at arms and the capitol police chief blaming them without accepting their own responsibility. and pelosiumer and browser s inaction, their refusal to call up those troops, the events of january six at the nation s u capitol wouldn t have unfolded as they did. you re not going to hear n that from his committee even though they well knowth that because this committeeey is taking snippets of information and contorting it tofo supportar a false narrative. at the same time, what they re doingy and this is the most important part they re concealing exculpate tourieto
and the situation is is that we have a committee that s forgetting about the fact that a lot of these folks learned a an illegal behavior which was rioting in the streets, burning down buildings . we allowed these activities to take place. leadership in our country. we we praised these folks that were burning down our cities. our vice president raised moneyy to the defense of these people that were burning down our cities. we ought to haveie hearingss abt the things that are truly new and have to be figured out today. baby formula. what about the 13 baby troopsfg that died in afghanistan? wouldn t it be nice to know the origins of that debacle, the border crisis? and let me just say one other thing. you know, there were real cases in this country that were being we re being prosecuted like in wisconsin where you had a statee where hundreds ofin