attention to the fact that jim jordan who s the chair of the judiciary committee today wrote a letter to a.g. garland demanding an un-redacted memorandum outlining the scope of mr. trump s probes regarding president trump and any supporting documentation related to his appointment as special counsel. this seems like that page in the trump playbook, congressman, where if you can t beat the investigation, investigate the investigators. is that what s happening right now? well, bingo, i think you ve got the whole thing. mark meadows testimony is of lethal peril to trump s legal defense if meadows tells the truth. and the truth here is really the enemy of the trump defense, which is why what s happening in congress is a sustained attack on anyone who dares investigate or prosecute donald trump. we saw it with district attorney
questions, whether he can even get on the stage. the rnc has certain thresholds, including 40,000 individual donors. if he gets on stage with trump he can mix it up with him. he sounded at one point like alex baldwin doing his saturday night live trump imitation. it is a trump moved to go after the family even though it is justified in this case. it would be great to see him on stage with trump. tonight. that is all in on this tuesday night. alex wagner tonight starts right now. good evening, alex. good evening, chris. you have to think is it 40,000 unique donors or probably 40,000 democrats that would give to see
you will recall that cassidy hutchison quoted mark meadows to the effect of president trump was not trying to stop the ongoing insurrection that has laid siege to the capital. you will recall some awkward questioning of the white house, counsel pat cipollone where liz cheney said to him was everyone in the white house interested, essentially, and stopping the insurrection? he said yes, i can t think of anybody who wasn t. and then he was asked a question i think by adam shift including the president? and then cipollone said well she was referring to the staff, and she said no, i was referring to anyone in the white house, and he turned nervously to his lawyer to try to determine how he should answer and you just said well, you know, that is covered by attorney client privilege, and i was talking about the staff.
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we ve learned all provided their testimony. so the special counsel probably has a full picture of what has been going down at mar-a-lago all these months. and now that team, the special counsel s team is presumably evaluating whether all these incidents, the moving of the boxes, the refusal to return the documents, the gaps in the security footage, the pool drainage, whether these were random events or orchestrated effort by donald trump on the part of his employees to interfere with the investigation. the latest twist here is the surprise revelation last night a previously unknown grand jury in south florida has recently started hearing testimony in this case. the new york times reports the grand jury in florida is separate from the one sitting for months in washington. among those who have appeared among the washington jury over the past few months or people familiar with it are more than 20 members of trump s secret service detail. as for the florida grand jury