election interference, what he s saying and when he might go under oath. developing news overseas, putting europe on edge. international inspectors on their way to that nuclear power plant coming under fire in ukraine. the fears growing over a possible radiation disaster. our team there on the ground with a live report for you. meantime, good afternoon to all of you. i m alex witt, in for hallie jackson here in new york. i m joined by ken dilanian, as well as msnbc legal analyst kelly, you re with us, as well. ken, with the doj with at least some of those seized documents contained some attorney/client privileged material. how will that affect the investigation going forward? probably not at all, alex. it s pretty routine when the fbi searches somebody s office and they grab all their files, they may pick up stuff that s privileged. that s why they use what s known as a privilege or filter team, a group of independent prosecutors to go through the documents before they
classified material in the first 15 boxes that were returned to the national archives. and a member of the january 6th committee has revealed a new thread of the panel s investigation, the money behind the january 6th riot. all this while the former legal team struggles to define a defense argument. if there s a prosecution of donald trump for mishandling classified afternoon after the clinton debacle, there will be riots in the streets. let s dig into this with ryan riley and ali vitali, along with glen kushner, a former prosecutor, and robert gibbs, press secretary from the obama white house. the washington post is reporting that the filter team has already gone through these documents and taken out what was lawyer/client privilege. that s all they should have to go through. @ job should be done for them. the doj did go through this very quickly over the course of essentially two or three weeks. that s according to the latest filing this morning from doj. it said th
sensitive documents, the dna is conducting its own review. avril hayne said her department is looking into any potential risks to national security. another delay could be the appointment of a special master opinion on saturday federal judge eileen cannon indicated she is inclined to grant trump s request. she also ordered the dodge to file under seal a more detailed inventory of what agents took from mar-a-lago. while we don t know what merrick garland will decide and when he will decide it, we do know americans will go to the polls on november 8th. and while republicans complain about and question d.o.j. s timing, some prominent republicans also concede donald trump s actions are cause for concern. it s hard to believe that the justice department and the fbi would take steps unless they had something pretty serious they were investigating. we don t know the facts yet. he should have turned the documents over. i think we re all concerned about what might be in those do
followers online, you can see there. and this is not just anybody talking, it is a trump ally, lawyer, and top republican on the senate judiciary committee, so he knows better than to just blithely talk up warn of violence and crime as retaliation of whatever happens in the criminal justice system, which no one knows what will happen. senator graham going further than most republican senators. lately many have been trying to duck attention over trump s secret document scandal. but what is different about graham? well, senator lindsey graham is also a witness and a potential participant in donald trump s 2020 election plot, which remains in criminal investigation in georgia. graham trying to fight lawful orders to testify there, so he has at a minimum a conflict. now, graham carefully avoided linking his own legal pressure in georgia to this new apparent warning or threat. instead he argued the double standard about secret documents, which is the federal case, not the georgi
4095, that is how many lawsuits former president donald trump or his organization, has been involved in, according to usa today. and they cover everything from defamation, contract disputes, personal injury, and more. and they spanned three decades. donald trump has been the defendant in almost 2000 of those civil suits. but the former president has never been a defendant in a criminal trial. if that changes, the trump playbook we have grown so familiar with, the path he nears, the vengeful outbursts, the dangerous lies, they will have no power there. the former president is connected to criminal investigations on multiple fronts. there is the justice department s investigation on trump s handling of classified documents, which most recently was a federal judge says he is inclined to unseal parts of the search affidavit and has ordered the justice department to make redactions. then, there s trump s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. his former white hous