donald trump, evan cochrane, corcoran, forget, me inside a grand jury, to answer of what did your client tell you to do? and where did he tell you to surge when you said all classified records at mar-a-lago had been returned. because obviously, that was not the truth. and that s the heart of this. a month after prosecutor jay brad went to florida to be handed those 38 classified documents, he wanted to obtained a search warrant to search the trump property. but prosecutors going fbi agents were still loathed to conduct a surprise search. they are from top fbi officials that some agents were simply afraid: they were we taking aggressive steps investigating trump could blemish or even and their careers. jay brat and other top justice department officials took the unprecedented step of going to fbi headquarters to present them where a draft search warrant. quote stephen m d antuono,
behavior on this case, and on a larger case. so neil, document gets appointed a special prosecutor, special counsel in this case. i would have to assume that s one of his first discussions s with j brat, and early in those discussions, i would expect jay brat to lay out who, by name, has been helpful in this investigation, and who by name has been wronged. which special agents were saying in may, no we don t need a search warrant, let s not do that. uhm wouldn t that be something that jacks mitt would be owed on day one so that he could have the right people in place? yes, i think so lawrence, battle on a go so far. it is possible that people just make the wrong judgment call. that can happen.
the truth. and that s the heart of this. a month after prosecutor jay brad went to florida to be handed those 38 classified documents, he wanted to obtained a search warrant to search the trump property. but prosecutors going fbi agents were still loathed to conduct a surprise search. they are from top fbi officials that some agents were simply afraid: they were we taking aggressive steps investigating trump could blemish or even and their careers. jay brat and other top justice department officials took the unprecedented step of going to fbi headquarters to present them where a draft search warrant. quote stephen m d antuono, then the head of the fbi washington field office which was running the investigation was adamant the fbi should not do a surprise search. he repeatedly urged that the fbi instead seek to persuade
they could be talking about fact witnesses, what did you see and sign, that would not be covered by the attorney/client privilege, but i imagine what they re trying to glean here is donald trump s direct involvement in the obstruction of justice. i think it is a attractive charge to charge him with solely obstruction of justice and how you could treat me differently than joe biden and mike pence because nobody has engaged in the kind of obstruction in this case. i think what they re trying to do is tie to directly to donald trump. the more you introduce the other characters, christina bob or evan corcoran, made representations to the justice department, he could say i didn t know what they were saying. i was handed off. there was reporting that he met with jay brat, who came down from the justice department to look around at mar-a-lago in june of last year. and so, that could be helpful. but i imagine what they re trying to do is to find out to
archives asking for a year and a half, could we get the documents, could we get the documents, and when they went and seized the documents, the government, are you sure there s not more, keep looking. let s bring in congressional reporter for the washington post, jackie alemany, she is an msnbc contributor. good morning, what more can you tell us about this story? this was, as mika pointed out, this came from within trump s circle of lawyers. let s hire a firm to see if there s more stuff. mar-a-lago, trump tower in new york and let s go check out this storage unit. right, willie. that s exactly right but it also came at the behest of the d.c. circuit judge barrel howell and after multiple concerns were expressed by counter intelligence head jay brat. basically prosecutors, the doj, the fbi continually expressed concern that trump and his folks had yet to fully comply with that original grand jury