what his lawyers may advise him. but he s intending to, or at least he wants to and just for those at home keeping track of the trump attorney organization chart. chris guys is one of trump s attorneys. but he talked to you about this new attorney, todd blanche, that was just added to the legal team for this probe specifically yesterday. what does it mean for joe tacopina, the other attorney that we ve seen publicly talking about this case? there was a lot of questions from your interview with tim harlot or the other attorney about whether tacopina has a conflict. it s of interest here and i asked has tacopina been sidelined, he said. he said. joe is a great lawyer. he s got a trial coming up in two weeks, and it needs to focus on that. and he is representing former president trump in this battery and defamation trial, brought by the former magazine columnist eugene carroll has been winding through the courts for years and is now actually coming to a head. that will be a civil trial ju
team, todd blanche is also going to be appearing in the courtroom today. that s notable because the other thing that cara s gonna learned earlier from chris guys is that they do expect joe tech opinion to instead start shifting his focus to another case. he had initially believed he was going to be the lead defense attorney in that room today. it doesn t appear that is going to be the case. we ll see how it plays out, though, donna papi, fascinating going inside. well do some good reporting, as you always do. and we ll see you later tonight. i m sure today on the air and then tomorrow morning coverage of the trump arraignment continues with cnn news central right after this great day. think about the best night s sleep you ve ever had a temper pedic were dedicated t to helping you sleep like t that every night. so you get the deep , comfortable, undisturbed breast you deserve for a limited time. save $300 on select tper pedic mattresses. they said. you can t create an app without codin
the other towards becoming with the probable cause it will mean for other locations where trump keeps his personal papers. joyce, let s talk about the attempts to develop the probable cause. there is also reporting from the new york times that there is a divide in the trump legal circle about how to handle this issue. here is reporter kate are talking about what trump lawyer, chris guys, the new guys on the team reportedly want to do. take a quick listen. part of the debate is that they would like trump to come clean if they have more documents. he would like to have a third party come in and search whatever of trump s part parties needs to be searched. so that they can be given a clean bill of health and a full assessment of what that party has found. there are other people in trump s legal orbit who have tried to convince the former presidents that they should fight this. if he does do anything it is his and he should not give it back. now, it seems, right now, it is the latter c
nbc news has not confirmed these details with the usual responses to fight. this could be an uphill battle for chris suggesting that trump come clean and sign off on the search. it would be consensual, as we. no what do you think conversations are like behind the scenes about trying to convince donald trump to sign off on a consensual search of his properties? it seems like chris, the one who appreciates how the law works, the evidence does not get any better for trump as time goes on. if he still has classified documents there is no doubt that the government will hunt those down. they are too important to like all of. so, the strategy seems like it would be based on something that permits someone to produce documents. an individual not a company. they can claim something called active production immunity that says the documents cannot be used against them in a criminal
trump s legal team. people telling him that he can do these novel crazy things that support what his view is of what he should get away with, and then there is also a lawyer to who says maybe you should be poking the bear in the justice department, or whichever bare he is poking at any given moment. not always because it is so reminiscent of the crazy scene that was painted by the january six committee of an oval office meeting where he s trying to get wind of the head guy of the justice department and he literally had that guy, jeff rosen, and jeffrey kept the one who had replaced him, battling it out in front of him like some sort of roman emperor with gladiators to make this argument about who should be calling the justice department. none of this is no at all. trump s legal strategy comes from trump. let s be clear. none of them are anything like gladiators. charlie, i know you re out with a new piece tonight. talk about how trump s claims of executive privilege, how their play i