instigators of the january 6th attack. for members of the proud boys, including their former leader found guilty of seditious conspiracy. what today s verdict could mean for the investigations into donald trump. then, new ethics questions about supreme court justice, clarence thomas. and a billionaire donor. and, with just one week until title 42 expires, a look at the humanitarian crisis at the southern border as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. i m symone sanders-townsend in four stephanie ruhle. tonight, there s brand-new reporting that special counsel jack smith is ramping up efforts to find out former president trump hid classified documents. the new york times writes, prosecutors have, quote, obtained the confidential cooperation of a person who has worked for trump at mar-a-lago. the report continues, quote, the existence of an insider witness, whose identity has not been disclosed could be a significant step in the investigation. this news comes jus
donald trump. then, new ethics questions about supreme court justice, clarence thomas. and a billionaire donor. and, with just one week until title 42 inspires, a look at the humanitarian crisis at the southern border as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. i m simone in for stephanie ruhle. tonight, this brand-new reporting that special counsel, jack smith, is ramping up efforts to find out former president trump hid classified documents. the new york times writes, prosecutors have, quote, obtained the confidential cooperation of a person who has worked for trump at mar-a-lago. the report continues, quote, the existence of an insider witness, whose identity has not been disclosed could be a significant step in the investigation. this news comes just hours after the justice department scored a critical win in its prosecution of the january 6th attack. today, for members of the proud boys, including the group s leader enrique tarrio were convicted of seditious
but also whether he and his aides and lawyers obstructed that investigation, took steps to throw sand into gears of how the justice department and national archives were trying to get these materials back. this story also has information about a flurry of new subpoenas that have gone out and how one of those subpoenas, that wants the trump organization asked for information related to liv golf. that is the saudi backed golf tour that is connected with donald trump in the years since he ran office. so, barbara, you re our veteran federal prosecutor here. hearing all of this from michaels reporting, how important do you think these developments are specifically in determining whether or not donald trump himself had the documents or if he directed someone to do so?
fairly. [applause] and if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons. because they are being treated so unfairly. financially supporting people that are incredible, and it s a disgrace what they ve done to them. what they ve done to these people, it s disgraceful. i drove 30 hours to see an on my back hurts. i hear you. you just take care of yourself. that last woman actually served time for her actions on january six. look, michael, these are donald trump s own words. there are people out there who would say, we have it on tape, we see the video, what is the holdup? what is your reporting telling you about where the special counsel s in relation to donald trump some statements?
the documents investigation. there is an enormous amount of evidence around that, around actions that trump took to not hand these documents back, false statements, knowing false statements that were provided by his lawyers to the justice department that were not accurate. and, in larger behavior by him that shows a sustained way of acting with these materials. and, because of that, this sort of conventional wisdom of sorts in the former, federal prosecutor legal community is that there will be a decision sooner than there would be in sooner documents than there would be on january six. i remember the tweet, donald trump sent how come to d.c. is going to be wild. that was prior while before january six. so, ryan, the proud boys have been convicted. seditious conspiracy, four or