before the election, you have made the payments today and it was because of the election, and because of trump s embarrassment. it doesn t matter what trump does, it was because of the election that it was an election violation. i am not a lawyer the chairman said, it does matter that if it was something other than exclusively the campaign then it is out of paid in campaign funds. my question watching that is that is that a preview then of the legal argument that they are than trying to make? yes and no. i think that the subpoena has switched gears on a number of different occasions that they attempt to go on, and indeed, they pursue this in terms of giving the indictment and moving forward i think that is one of the most straightforward things that they can respond, with primarily because, at this point, we don t necessarily know the clue and legal charges. so if he does go with that campaign file which most people expect him to do, that probably is one
the testimony. that is the latest vote blow to the ex presidents claim of privilege. on friday, trump s lawyer testified for three hours, as part of the grand jury investigating trump s handling of classified documents. he will return for questioning after howell denied his claim for attorney client privilege, stating the pro fraud exception. he has been told to hand over more illegal documents, investigators are going to handle for most invoices and transcriptions of personal audio recordings. it is clear. trump wanted to keep that information private, since he even mediately appealed howls ruling. however, that appeal was quickly rejected, so quickly that it left some questioning if new information, possibility with national security could ve accelerated that time. let s bring our panel back. let s start, charles, with this latest ruling from judge howell. busiest women in washington apparently. executive privilege specifically, trump expected to appeal.
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obstruct, or whether they are going to finally realize that their own criminal exposure is facing them now. and that they are have a decision to make of whether they have got a criminal charge or whether they are going to cooperate. i have to tell, you i am not very optimistic. these, the names you just read aloud, for the most part, more extreme red arrests. and first, mark meadows has aspirations to continue to another administration and some form. so we are going to begin to see whether or not the are going to see what they can get from these folks, whether they cooperate or not, for those who are on the fence right now about cooperating with this inquiry. and we don t know where this is going. but the judge has decided that executive privilege does not count in the case of these attorneys, i see a crime occurring i m looking, at and i am not going to buy into this idea of attorney client
decision in this case. scott anderson senior editor at the has one explanation that could cause accelerated timeline is that the doj could have presented evidence that there may still be classified information in trump s hands. and that corcoran s testimony could help him recover. what do you make of that? yeah, there have been various sources that have told the media that are familiar with the investigation regarding the documents that they have no degree of confidence that they got all the jockey roads. so i think it s a safe bet that in part, the judge is being driven by evidence she s hearing from the prosecution that they don t know that there is more, documents or even worse, they have valid reason to believe that there are additional documents or they just don t know where they are or what has been done with them. i think that would accelerate the unprecedented midnight deadline for the prosecution.