late breaking, news special counsel jack smith has subpoenaed former president donald trump s former chief of staff mark meadows as part of smith and vesta geisha and into trump and his role in the january 6th insurrection. now i should say this as according to a single source, and it s being reported by cnn, and we see has not independently confirmed this reporting. cnn reports tonight that meadows received a subpoena for documents and testimony sometime in january. this comes just one week after we learned the special counsel smith subpoenaed trump s former vice president mike pence. clearly, things are heating up. beyond the fact that subpoena of the former presidents chief of staff is a huge deal on its own, mark meadows in particular is quite a potential witness. meadows was involved in the infamous phone call between trump and georgia secretary of state brian rat in which he pressured raffensperger to find 11,780 votes. meadows was in the over office with trump for a
caution it s. ron klain having work to the judiciary committee with joe biden when he was chairman and the business of confirming those judges. ron klein told me about is last week of working for the white house that he s their underway fulfilling every vacancy in the federal courts. they might get to a point this year where they re sitting there with no vacancies. wow! that s just an astonishing accomplishment. at a time when it is abundantly clear how very important the judiciary is to be functioning democracy. exactly. we are joined tonight by harvard law officer professor laurence tribe to consider of among other things mike pence s novel to put it kindly, novel notion about why he should testify before a grand jury. novel is one way putting it or, it s account wait to see. it thanks. alex thank you. well the breaking news of the night is that special prosecutor jeff jack smith has invoked the crime fraud exception in a motion to force one of donald trump
i love when you say the destruction of the semantic train right is that what you re saying? i wrote it down. that is. i love it! i love it! happy valentine s day buddy! to you to. thank you for joining us at home. happy valentine s day to you at home. it is not been a quiet one. we have lots of news this evening regarding the special counsel s investigations into both trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election and to whether trump unlawfully retain classified documents and obstructed efforts to recover them. first of breaking news in the mar-a-lago documents investigation. it concerns trump lawyer evan corcoran who s been representing the former president in his negotiations with the justice department over classified documents found at mar-a-lago. corcoran s already can appeared before the grand jury but tonight nbc news confirms it special jackson jack smith is invoking the crime fraud exception and seeking more of corcoran s testimony. in a sealed filing before a ju
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among other things, mike pence s novel to put it kindly novel notion about why he should not have to testify before a grand jury. novel is one way of putting it, lawrence. i can t wait to see. it thanks, alex. thank you. well the breaking news of the night is that special prosecutor jeff jack smith has invoked the crime fraud exception in a motion to force one of donald trump s lawyers to testify before a grand jury without being able to refuse to answer questions because of the attorney client privilege. the crime fraud exception can overrule the attorney client privilege. the new york times is reporting tonight federal prosecutors overseeing the investigation into former president donald j trump s handling of classified documents are seeking to pierce assertions of client attorney privilege and compel lawyers to answer more questions before a grand jury according to two people familiar with the matter, adding an aggressive new dimension to the inquiry and und