happy friday it s 4:00 in new york. he has held no press conferences, done no interviews that we know about he is elusive. the inner workings of his highly sensitive assignment a bit of a mystery outside of what some journalists worked to uncover. when it comes to the special counsel jack smith and his federal investigations, plural, into donald j. trump it takes an ear to the ground adept and trained to know when progress is being made this afternoon trusted voices suggest it is time to buckle up. here s why in dates since the federal appeals court in washington rejected the ex-president s bid to block former staffers from testifying in the january 6th investigation, ex-aides have paraded in and out of depositions without fig leaf protections of executive an attorney-client privilege. on tuesday it was stephen miller late yesterday it was former dni john ratcliffe soon it could be the star witness, donald trump s former vice president mike pence himself. last week an advisor
here so i think that s happening. but, obviously, the key question is when. but again, i think that if we were waiting for months for either of these cases, i think that jack would do that as somewhat of a defeat because he knows that kind of case will be hard to bring to trial before the election. charlie, the timing is interesting. you know, the political calendar, politico, people like you and me, is something totally different than for prosecutors who under the rhythms and pacing of bringing a trial. i saw you nodding when i asked about prosectorial time. what are your thoughts about the calendar you know, i was glad that andrew was talking about the time here because it is very, very late. and we have paid a huge price, i think, for all of the failures to hold donald trump accountable. it occurred to me, nicole, we were having conversations like this, we have had conversations like this for the last six years. waiting for various
that financial case. so take him seriously. so that s the dance there. you know, one tidbit that suggests that donald trump may not have done that well is that today you a apparently he made some statement that my financial statements, they were even you know, if fact, we were doing even better than what we put on our financial statements well, if that s what he said to letitia james, that s actually part of what her claim is, was that they were presenting a sort of worse position when they were going to the tax authorities and they were presenting a better position when they were going to banks trying to get loans. so saying that we had financial statements that were inaccurate because we were doing better is actually supportive of her theories so i was a little surprised that the former president made that statement. yeah, and anyone that read anything that has been written or read a page of the book knows
a potential new stage in the federal investigations into donald trump s conduct before, during and after the january 6th insurrection is where we begin today with our favorite reporters and friends. new york times reporter katy benert is back also msnbc legal analyst andrew wiseman, whose backgrounds get better and better and better as jack smith s probe gets more intense. he is a former justice department prosecutor, former senior member of robert mueller s special counsel investigation. charlie is back, he has epic backgrounds, editor at large of the bulwark. watching you get mic d up, made me nis one thing about covid, seeing inside everyone s homes we ve sort of walked up to this point this week, i think, in seeing stephen miller and seeing the mostly secret court proceedings yield legal defeat
happy friday it s 4:00 in new york. he has held no press conferences, done no interviews that we know about he is elusive. the inner workings of his highly sensitive assignment a bit of a mystery outside of what some journalists worked to uncover. when it comes to the special counsel jack smith and his federal investigations, plural, into donald j. trump it takes an ear to the ground adept and trained to know when progress is being made this afternoon trusted voices suggest it is time to buckle up. here s why in dates since the federal appeals court in washington rejected the ex-president s bid to block former staffers from testifying in the january 6th investigation, ex-aides have paraded in and out of depositions without fig leaf