rehearsal idea. the idea of address what comes from an opinion we haven t seen yet, a sealed opinion about the crime fraud exception. got to the legal doctrine that allows the court to pierce an attorney client provides, and this, case judge beryl howell of the d. c. district court, apparently found in a lengthy opinion, that evan corcoran had apparently been duped by donald trump. and that there was an enough evidence of possible obstruction by the former president, as well as retention, unlawfully, of classified documents. to justify piercing that privilege. that s the context in which the phrase, dress rehearsal, showed up. she said essentially, the way in which trump and his lawyers had interacted with the national archives was the dress for herschel. remember, alicia, the first time trump was notified that the national archives wanted these documents back, it wasn t last, year it was in may of 2021. he has been playing footsie, essentially, with federal government, since then ab
left office. now, you think about investigation, i m gonna bet your mind goes straight to the events of august 8th last year. you would likely think of the fbi s court authorized search of mar-a-lago. and of the 100 plus classified documents that the fbi found on the premises that. but that is not tonight s news. no, tonight s news centers on a period of time, about two months before that. june 2nd, the events of that day may be key to jack smith s case. tonight, the washington post described the events that took place that day as being of particular importance to investigators in the classified documents case. we had previously known that on may 11th of last year, trump s attorneys received a grand jury subpoena seeking all documents bearing classification marking still in trump s possession. then, we knew that almost a month later, june 3rd, an attorney from the department of justice, and three fbi agents met with trump s lawyers at mar-a-lago to collect those
conducted his own search of the room that day. so, trump ordered his employees to move boxes of documents back into a storage room for his own lawyer, evan corcoran, conducted a search. later that same day, corcoran called the doj, told them it was fine to swing on by. the following day, doj officials came by to pick up documents. as well as a signed attestations written by corcoran, signed by trump lawyer, christina bobb, confirming that. to the best of her knowledge, a diligent search had been conducted, that they had turned over everything they found. of course, we now know that was not the case. the fbi later found more than 100 more classified documents on the premises, even more at a storage site, months after that. one of the key questions of this investigation is, was that obstruction of justice? was all the weird back and forth, moving of boxes, evidence that trump trying not to give these documents back? was him ordering these boxes
government with the location of these documents. i m a dance mom, so dress rehearsal is something very different to me. i want to come back on obstruction. the reporting would bolster this, and the washington post reports, quote, people familiar with the situation said smith s team believes it has uncovered a handful of distinct episodes of destructionest conduct. that stuck out to me, episodes. i ll just say if you re a dance moms fan abbey lee miller did have a case brought against her for similar kinds of machinations. it s always the cover-up or moving things around or trying to obstruct the process going on here. again, we ve seen this play out in popular culture in a lot of different ways. think back to the movie the firm where tom cruz is a lawyer caught up with that terrible firm that has tie tuesday the mafia. and he has to the fbi agency i
news on special counsel jack smith s criminal investigation into donald trump s alleged mishandling of hundreds of classified documents after he left office. you think of that investigation i want to bet your mind goes straight to the events of august 8th last year. you ll likely think of the fbi s court authorized search of mar-a-lago and of the 100-plus classified documents the fbi found on the premises that day. tonight s news centers on a time about two months before that, june 2nd and why the events of that day may be key to john smith s case. tonight the washington post describes the events that took place on that day as being of importance to investigators in the classified documents case. we ve previously known may 11th of last year trump s attorneys received a subpoena.