make that case for or against my only frustration as i wish that it happened a lot earlier. i m sure, some people wish the same. devlin, in terms of evan corcoran s testimony through to eight hours we have little reporting from what went on behind closed doors but i do wonder what you think a grand jury might want to focus on in terms of evan corcoran as it pertains to the mar-a-lago case. remember the rule evan corcoran plays and how this case develops. evan corcoran is the lawyer that conduct says the search of the classified documents at mar-a-lago after trump s receives a subpoena demanding the return of all classified documents that s a huge point of contention between the prosecutors and trump s legal team because remember it s ultimately the government investigators come to believe that that was not a good faith
from trump s inner circle the trump hasn t been able to stop from testifying. and today we learned that the federal judge in d. c. has ordered a who s who of trump s inner circle to provide testimony and special counsel in the january six investigation. that list includes former chief of staff mark meadows, his director of national intelligence, john ratcliffe, adviser robert o brien and former close advisor steve miller and former deputy chief of staff chances vina, former top department of homeland security official ken cuccinelli. and former white house aide, nick luna and john mcentee. trump tried to stop that crew from appearing before the january 6th round jury. as attempts that derailed the investigation have failed and the legal battles are far from over. jack smith also has subpoenas out to january jared kushner and ivanka trump. joining us now to discuss is evelyn barrett security reporter for the national. coast and former federal prosecutor, devlin. thank you both for being
front of these grand juries. does that suggest to you, that we are towards, the war at the end stages of jack smith investigation here? i like to say. last but i don t think so. these are really important people who any good prosecutor would want to have in there. really depends a lot on what he gets from them. he s jumped on the sorts of witnesses early anticipation, a lot of litigation just to get them in there, and that s exactly what s happening so if i had to say where he was i would say middle or maybe moving towards the end but it s really these key witnesses that they need to hear from in order to formulate what kind of evidence there is for potential charges. develin, i don t know if it s a disappointment or not but when you think about the timeframe here and what s
committing crimes of poverty, jumping turnstiles, because they don t have a two dollar and 75 cents there. and now attacking alvin braille for prosecuting cases. they don t want to have a both. ways that s a good point. i want to return to all of them. let, specifically you talk about, that is the prosecutor s role for meeting the grand jury and what s happening behind the scenes. number one, alvin bragg has had to send out multiple notes to his staff, and his office this week, to basically assuage their concerns about what i assume is their own personal safety. today he sent out a letter, i know it hasn t been easy, he wrote in the email, with all the press attention, security around the office. and thanked everyone for their strength and professionalism during this time. people think it s not just bragg that s doing this work. there is a team of people, for people who don t understand what s happening in the da s office. what kind of peril are people putting themselves and, who s w
criminal indictment. this is a perilous time for donald trump. he s desperate to regain the presidency, but he could be arrested any day now. so, he s encouraging his followers to become martyrs, and defend him. all week, trump s been attacking prosecutors in all of the various cases, against him. but in particular, he s been focused on manhattan da, alvin bragg, the prosecutor who seems likely to indict him first. trump has called the black prosecutor a soros backed animal. and compared his office to the gestapo. he s mocked the idea that his supporters should respond peacefully to an indictment from the da. last, night trump went so far as to say that if he s indicted, he will, quote potential death and destruction would soon follow. tonight, a senior law enforcement official told nbc news, that there s been several hundred threats to alvin bragg s office in recent weeks. a couple dozen threatened