witness, that trump at times kept classified documents out in the open in his florida office, where others could see them. he sometimes showed them to people, including aides and visitors. you put all that reporting together, certainly looks like jack smith is forming a case here. now, nbc news has not independently confirmed any of this reporting. former president trump, of course, denies he did anything wrong. but this certainly does not look good for the former president. it does seem, time is not on his side either. tonight, bloomberg reports, this investigation is coming to a close, and that jack smith is poised to announce possible criminal charges in the days or weeks after memorial day. joining us now, lisa reuben, msnbc legal analyst, and melissa murray. she s a professor of law at nyu. and an msnbc legal analyst. ladies, what a treat to have you both here tonight. we will get to the bloomberg reporting on the possible timeline of an indictment in a minute, that would be our l
somebody fell out of favor and were air brushed out of the picture standing next to stalin or whatever it might be. that s what we re seeing the republican party doing now they are air brushing history. if you re working in law enforcement at the capitol right now, the threat of violence has not gone away. if you re a police officer, an fbi agent or any number of any officials who have to work to not only protect the capitol, but to look at the potential threats out there, to have things going on where, one, you have kevin mccarthy releasing a awl of this footage, but beyond that, you have not just this sort of specific information about the capitol, you have this broad stroke attack against law enforcement. whether it s this new committee looking into actions on january 6th, jim jordan s insurrection committee, i don t want to give credit to what it is, but there s this insidious effort to
vice president pensmike pence t day. now newly released video shows another close call between rioters and a senator, the pro tem chuck grassley he was third in line for the presidency that day. politico reports the footage release d after media requests t access videos in connection with the january 6th criminal case shows the apparent evacuation of senator chuck grassley from the senate chamber as a uniformed officer separates him and his security detail from the first wave of rioters. those rioters were being led by the proud boy who used a shield to shatter a window and ignite the breech of the building near the chamber. senator grassley s life looks like it was in very much could have been in real danger that day. right after january 6th, he saw it that way too. he called out the former president for what he described as, quote, poor leadership in
undermine the work broadly of what law enforcement is doing. and try as they might, law enforcement, whoever they might be, are going to show up and do their job. to showing these techniques and footage of anything else, you do have this sort of barrage of attacks that invariable, you can t hp but notice it i think it poses the unique challenge when you look at the moral across the board, none of these things, it just make it is difficult even more challenging. pete, 27% of republicans have this view that the insurrection wasn t an insurrection at all. if you had to guess, what percentage, it any, of people in the fbi see it that way? i don t know how you can look at a body of work, which includes at this point we maybe past 1,000 charged individuals, who participated on the insurrection of january 6th.
you join an intense conversation about the real multiprong efforts to rewrite the events of january 6th. which were never in dispute. but more than just covering the whitewashing as an event, as a circus like feature, i want to understand why you think it s happening. the republican party and after the midterms, where they came in below expectation, they were at a cross roads where they could either reset on january 6th, recognizing that voters rejected extremism, or rewrite there s no way that the present status of the country is that we reject extremism, we connect january 6th so they are choosing