department of justice has specific guidance as it relates to inform willing people that they are targets and permitting them to have the opportunity to test tie ify before a grand jur. and so really a target letter that speaks to the issues that are of concern for the government is really a precursor to an actual indictment. again it is proof that the justice department believes that you are guilty. and if evidence is presented through the special council through november of last year, you know, that listen, an indictment may be imminent and we re on the verge of significant history. all right. joey jackson, thank you. quick hits across america now. prosecutors calling their first witness as the trial for ex-parkland school resource
never be charged in any document probe. far.place wouldn t have gotten raided. it would have never gotten t clas as far hillary we all know she mishandled top secret classifiedat material on private servers likely hacked by foreignco countries. s, she then deleted the thirty three thousand subpoenaed emails, white those c devices clean with something we had never heard of called bit.ch . phones a had she remove sim cards from the phones and blackberries? estroyedand had them destroyed with hammers? but according to james comey jad no reasonable prosecutor would bring charges against hillary clinton. now, keep in mind, another special counsel ting joeis investigating joe bin the exact same issue except biden allegedly mishandled classified material in multiple unsecured locations. locationincluding secret documea biden s time even going back ash far from being a senator. but surprise, surprise, thater case appears to be goinge kn nowhere. there are no impending charges, no grand jur the
time but trump continues to b vulnerable in a few othe pending criminal cases for which he could be indicted and potentially convicted. down in georgia, still awaitin a decision from the fulton county district attorney, fani willis, on whether to pres charges in her investigation into election interference int the 2020 presidential race willis has previously informed several people that they are targets of the investigation including trump s former personal lawyer, rudy giuliani and david schaffer, the head o the georgia republican party the special grand jury in that instance issued its fina report back in january now, in georgia, special grand juries do not have the power t indict but emily kohrs, served as the foreperson of that grand jur said in subsequent interview that the panel had recommended indictments for more than dozen people and when asked whether tha included the former president, xi told nbc news, quote, potentially, it might. and finally, there is jack smith, the justi
office meeting that trum participated in, according to source familiar with the matter leading off our discussion tonight is andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel, an former chief of criminal division in the easter district of new york he s the professor of practice at nyu law school. also with us is neal katyal, former acting u.s. solicitor general. they are both msnbc lega analysts andrew, i want to begin with the last point that i mentioned, and tie it back to the first point. there is a report of grand jur testimony about donald trump asking about seizing votin machines there is also the fact that we now know mike pence is going t testify to the grand jury. it seems that the penc testimony could be a lot mor important than this voting machine testimony, depending o what that testimony is if it is donald trump asking can we seize voting machines and he s told that you can t no matter how much yelling i
the evidence, and this is wher it led him you are a former prosecutor how would you approach these charges? very much the way alvin bragg is, that is letting th evidence speak in th courtroom. not saying much outside th courtroom, treating th defendant like any other defendant, that is how i think he handled the case, i m impressed at the grand jur maintains such secrecy, that w were wondering what kind o charges, how many, et cetera until they were revealed you know, i will say, th justice department and moved with a greater sense of urgenc as a prosecutor, i would alway want to see the most serious charges brought first by the office that has the most capacity to bring those charge that would be the department o justice. that is not the fault of the manhattan da, the manhattan da brought the case forward whe it was ready to be, brough when the evidence was there, i would hope that the justic