found at mar-a-lago. cochrane was forced to testify after the judge ruled there was sufficient evidence that he committed a crime, through his attorney to that case. this is a lot, y all. joining me now, paul butler. he s a former federal prosecutor and an msnbc legal analyst. paul, this many places i could go, i want to start with alvin bragg. he is the first black da that manhattan has ever had. he s the first black da, he is the former president of the nsa to america calling him an animal. you know, people ask in all of these different prosecutions of trump and investigations that prosecutors coordinating. they re not coordinating, they re certainly paying attention. and i think when jack smith, the special counsel, hears president trump talking like this, and trying to foment the same kind of violence in new york that he tried to incite on january 6th and washington d.c.,
investigation. why are you asking me to testify before congress, he says it s out of line. is he right? absolutely right. and to be clear. congress has vast oversight. i testified in front of congress a couple weeks ago about this, and congress is vast oversight authority. but what this is a local investigation of local misconduct from a private citizen in the form of the former president. now, look, he s the most famous person, possibly on the planet, one of them, but congress really doesn t have business trying to tell local prosecutors have to do their jobs with us. we ll move on to another big development. as we note in manhattan prosecutors are regrouping. but here in washington, there s some important forward momentum in the special. councils. mara lago classified documents case a federal appeals court, citing wednesday with prosecutors, that ruling now compels trump attorney evan cochrane. to answer questions in front of a grand jury. that ruling agrees with a lower court judge
where a judge orders his lawyer to answer more questions about classified documents. but in new york the d a. is at a crossroads as the grand jury returns to work, but not to hear evidence today in the trump us money case , and aronda santis redo the florida governor gives a very different answer in a new interview about the war in ukraine, up first for us, though tiktok ceo goes under oath and says his company is not a glaring risk. the u. s national security lawmakers, though in both parties clearly not convinced, piercing questions today, up on capitol hill, the hearing in the house energy and commerce committee, kicking off with a reminder and misleading congress is a federal crime. tiktok s chief, very, very careful in his answers, he says the app can keep data from millions of american users off limits from the chinese government. but lawmakers counter. they say simply, they don t believe it. they see tiktok as a weapon for the chinese regime. your platform should be ba
donald trump, evan cochrane, corcoran, forget, me inside a grand jury, to answer of what did your client tell you to do? and where did he tell you to surge when you said all classified records at mar-a-lago had been returned. because obviously, that was not the truth. and that s the heart of this. a month after prosecutor jay brad went to florida to be handed those 38 classified documents, he wanted to obtained a search warrant to search the trump property. but prosecutors going fbi agents were still loathed to conduct a surprise search. they are from top fbi officials that some agents were simply afraid: they were we taking aggressive steps investigating trump could blemish or even and their careers. jay brat and other top justice department officials took the unprecedented step of going to fbi headquarters to present them where a draft search warrant. quote stephen m d antuono,
later, merrick garland, attorney general summons prosecutors and investigators on that team to his office, to let them know that he was going to appoint a special counsel and encourage them to consider joining the special counsel s team. so, basically, work was fractions away, guards away, from being completed. i think that is pretty important that now, jack smith, who one of his first actions was the one that prosecutors still hadn t tidied up at the end of their probe, and that was getting the lawyer for donald trump, evan cochrane, corcoran, forget, me inside a grand jury, to answer of what did your client tell you to do? and where did he tell you to surge when you said all classified records at mar-a-lago had been returned. because obviously, that was not