environment that prosecutors handling cases involving the ex-president are facing right now. in the federal indictment of a man who allegedly made let s to fulton county district attorney fani wli and fulton county sheriff patrick la bat. arthur ray hanson ii was charged on monday for making threats to willis and la bat back in august, days before willis charged trump and 18 others in a sweeping rico case alleging a, quote, criminal enterprise that sought to overturn the r new york times reports this, quote, in a voicemail message for sheriff labatt mr. hanson threatened the sheriff to not take a mugshot of,quote, my president, donald trump, that s according to the indictment. i m warning you right now adding that t sheriff to,quote, get hurt real ba he also left aoicemail message for ms. willis in which he threatened her and referred to the georgia case. ing to your car at night, when you re going into your house. tch everywhere that you re going mr. hanson said according
not charged with anything. well, it s such an important point. mary mccord is also along with us. she s a former top official in the justice department s national security division. mary, it s an important sort of small understated point in the article, but it drives home the fact that if trump should read it, he might see that the advice he got from lawyers kept him from being charged on the documents that he followed their advice about, the things that he gave back. that s not what doj came for. they didn t come for things that were mishandled which a potential crime, initially not given back to nara which could have been a potential crime. this isn t accurate from a legal standpoint but they seemed to have taken all s well that ends well and the things he s charged for are things we still don t know for sure are back in the possession of the federal
and family including his son, eric trump and his wife laura trump, former trump economic adviser pete navarro, former national security adviser mike flynn, former senior department of defense official kash patel, former acting attorney general matt whitacre, truth social ceo devin nunes and trump ally roger stone. joining us, mary mcchord, former top official of the justice department s national security division. paul reich calf, bassal smikle and frank figliuzzi are still here. mary, what could go wrong? listening to that cast of characters, you have everything from the most extreme anti-semites and racists to people who are extremists and anti-semites and racists, but held positions of power in the department of justice, all coming together.
historic moment of accountability for the ex-president and current republican front-runner. donald trump with his long record of lying and spreading misand dits information has been credibly accused by sexual misconduct by 26 women. today he was found by a jury to be not only liable for his statements but also for his behavior. as she exited the court room carroll and her attorney roberta kaplan did not stop to speak with reporters with kaplan saying only this, quote, we re only happy. joining us with breaking news coverage of this decision from outside the courthouse lisa rubin is back with us, and also andrew wiseman, former senior member of robert mueller s special counsel investigation. mary mccord is back, formal top official in the justice department s national security division. we see you were inside the courtroom for so much of what went on during this trial. first your reaction to the
investigation into classified documents kept at mar-a-lago uncovering evidence of potential obstruction of justice by donald trump himself. this is where we start with some of our favorite reporters and friends. new york times washington correspondent mike schmidt is here. one of the reporters bilined on this big piece of reporting we read from. also joining us, mary mccord, she s a former top official in the justice department s national security division. former rnc chairman mike will steele is here and with us at the time. and acting solicitor general, now law professor at georgetown university. lucky for us, all msnbc contributors. mike schmidt, take us through what you and your colleagues are reporting and what you think the significance is in terms. understanding where jack smith s investigation is today. i think the most important thing to come out of our story and our reporting is that look, there s a lot in the story. the thing that we re trying to basically get at is th