what happens in their career after a given case. who was he? here s a hint. it is the same prosecutor now leading the entire doj probe of donald trump on two big criminal issues. my report on him continues when we re back in 60 seconds. onds ya know, if you were cashbacking you could earn on everything with just one card. chase freedom unlimited. so, if you re off the racking. .or crab cracking, you re cashbacking. cashback on flapjacks, baby backs, or tacos at the taco shack.
the white house is insisting that the president is cooperating with the doj probe and unclear whether they will do with congressional investigators also taking a look at security breach. lucas tomlinson joins us again from the north lawn of the white house. what are you learning this hour. some republicans are accusing the white house of a cover-up and sitting on classified material ahead of midterm elections and with your interview crawford, here is what he s accusing the president of. not bringing the information forward potentially affects the outcome of the election. we have seen this happen time and time again on different issues. this is one that certainly was rose to the level of being reported and so i think they deliberately quashed that to make sure that it wasn t out in the public s sphere before election day. lucas: two days ago our colleague peter doocy asked what he was thinking keeping
states. if this is not a crime, i don t know what is. their sole focus was to go after president trump. calling for him to be barred from office forever. i will be satisfied if the department of justice approaches this with courage and vigor. they ve got to reach the decision, not me. that s how the news broke, and the fallout continues. that final full report clocks in at over 800 pages with evidence that has really upended the doj probe and approach. reporters combing through documents, interviews, all kinds of headlines here. tens of thousands of pages of transcripts that also are driving news and showing how clearly trump s aides saw his betrayal of the u.s. for exactly what it was in realtime. take one of his most loyal aides, hope hicks, lamenting in what she thought was a secret text message on january 6th, we all look like domestic terrorists now. and she revealed her obvious awareness that trump was driving
the president of the united states did this and he was never charged or convicted and i think that is the dilemma for the doj, because it sets a dangerous precedent for the behavior after that. mike, to clint s point, the new york times reporting adds to our understanding it seems of both parts of what we know about the doj probe. the investigation into the underlying crime of taking classified documents and what we know to also be an investigation into obstructing that very probe. the times has reported on mr. nurputo and some footage around the storage area. where do you put what the times is reporting, do you it is more of an interest though toz building the obstruction case or the original crime case? i m not sure. my guess is that, look, the feds have a very good detailed sense of this much better than we did. and we wore sort of piggy
authorities to avoid paying taxes. in addition to the company being fined one half million dollars, cfo allen weisselberg will do jail time. but trump, the man whose name is literally on the company was not even charged. despite the fact that weisselberg testified that trump was the one who signed fraudulent bonus checks in the scheme. in a statement, trump called the guilty verdict a continuation of the greatest political witch hunt in the history of our country, adding, new york city is a harm place to beat trump. of course, as regular viewers of the show no, there s a host of other ongoing investigations against trump. there s the doj probe over classified documents found on his mar-a-lago resort home. this week, we learned that lawyers for trump, who were searching three of his properties, found at least two new classified documents in a storage unit in florida. trump s representatives did not return and msnbc news for comment on that development. then there s the probe in trump s