welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing this important news day with us. target trump, the former president s legal team gets official notice he could face charges in the federal investigation over classified documents. this is an unprecedented legal and political moment as one piece of the special counsel investigation nears its end just as trump s 2024 comeback bid gears up. plus new cnn reporting on a critical building block of the case. a career government expert interviewed by prosecutors detailed exactly what trump knew and was told about the classification rules. and the political impact of trump being named a target, the former president rolls out a familiar playbook, where he s a victim and lies are plentiful. his 2024 rivals now must decide what to say. this as mike pence s cautious choice. if that is something that investigators see as possible, even enough potentially to indict the former president, do you think that
three different codifications including an unspecified number labeled ts slash sci. documents are sensitive that they could only be viewed in secure locations. this part of the trump drama appears to have started in june, when trump was hit with a federal subpoena for classified documents. according to new reporting from the new york times, at this trump one trump lawyer signed a statement saying that all information marked as classified mar-a-lago had been returned. for people with knowledge of the document, msnbc news has not independently verified this report and trump has not responded to nbc s request for comment. this isn t trump s only legal whoa in the news. two days after the mar-a-lago search, he pleaded the fifth more than 440 times in a deposition with the office of attorney general tish james, leading a civil investigation into his business practices. joining me now, an all-star panel. congress dean of pennsylvania, a former house of. manager anna house chair
he s a former spokesman for donald trump. we know some of this. the question is he was a spokesman for trump at the time. and they were about to release a statement saying that everything had been returned and then somebody internally said, woe, let s not do that because we don t think that is true. the statement that trump wanted to send, said he returned all the presidential material he had. prosecutors have a draft. the idea of being that somebody internally, trump wanted to say i gave it all back. and somebody said, yeah, but, we haven t. maybe we shouldn t say that. probably wise counsel. who knew that they hadn t given everything become. when they say they hadn t given everything back, are they talking about presidential records? are they talking about classified documents? potential defense information? how did they know that potentially not everything had gone back. what were they doing about it. were they making sure it was returned. the jthsz department didn t