happy friday it s 4:00 in new york. he has held no press conferences, done no interviews that we know about he is elusive. the inner workings of his highly sensitive assignment a bit of a mystery outside of what some journalists worked to uncover. when it comes to the special counsel jack smith and his federal investigations, plural, into donald j. trump it takes an ear to the ground adept and trained to know when progress is being made this afternoon trusted voices suggest it is time to buckle up. here s why in dates since the federal appeals court in washington rejected the ex-president s bid to block former staffers from testifying in the january 6th investigation, ex-aides have paraded in and out of depositions without fig leaf protections of executive an attorney-client privilege. on tuesday it was stephen miller late yesterday it was former dni john ratcliffe soon it could be the star witness, donald trump s former vice president mike pence himself. last week an advisor
you. well there is no mourning like you know mourning. there is scared death and i watch out of the window all of the time. i watch our monitors 360 all of the time. i watch around me and my family all of the time. and if anybody is coming at my at the wrong angle, and stood there too long, i watch their eyes, i watch every movement because the torture is still there and those people that wanted to become famous off my son, that still hasn t gone away. and i m waiting for i m waiting for the help to hit every day. it is one minute past the top of the hour and we are speaking with joel and mary rich, the parents of seth rich. about the impact conspiracy theories have, especially on them in light of how their son s murder was covered and the narrative created around it. we ll continue the conversation just let you know. we re also following breaking news about queen elizabeth ii. apparently gravely ill. and steve bannon due in court in the next half hour or so. we ll be c
documents found by the fbi at trump s private residence and golf club. they dismissed the criminal investigation as a document storage dispute that has sfie ruld out of control. most notable aspect of their filing, trump s lawyers tip-toeing around trump s claim that he declassified any or all of the documents. it s a claim for which they can t and don t provide a single shred of evidence. instead, saying this. quote, the government has not proven these records remain classified. that issue is to be determined later. the washington post notes, a section of their 21 page filing does not say that trump declassified the material before he left office. while trump s lawyers would like us to think this is what they say, document storage dispute, it s worth remembering in the court filing last week doj made clear that the country s national security may very well be in jeopardy if the government loses access and time, even temporarily, to the documents that were seized. from the
9 pm eastern tomorrow night, which means you ll be able to watch coverage of those polls close on msnbc s brand-new show alex wagner tonight. she premiered last week in which was a big primary night. you will not want to miss her tomorrow night at 9 pm eastern. be there or be full of lasting regret. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening. lawrence this breaking news in the new york times tonight. if true answers a bunch of questions including that bombshell of donald trump himself was examining these records at the end of 2021 before they handed back anything at all, donald trump was locked looking in the boxes himself. and if the rest of the reporting was true he was hand looking through the stuff himself before they handed over about 150 documents marked classified but retained another hundred 50 documents marked classified and he personally was sifting through them to decide what he s going to hold on to. if the times is reporting is correc
brand-new show, which is called alex wagner tonight. alex s show prepared last week on what was a big primary night. you don t want to miss her tomorrow night, 9 pm eastern, be there or be full of lasting regret. it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. this breaking news in the new york times tonight. if true answers a bunch of questions including that bombshell of donald trump himself was examining these records at the end of 2021 before they handed back anything at all, donald trump was locked looking in the boxes himself. and if the rest of the reporting was true he was hand looking through the stuff himself before they handed over about 150 documents marked classified but retained another hundred 50 documents marked classified and he personally was sifting through them to decide what he s going to hold on to. if the times is reporting is correct, that just ranks itself into an indictment, in terms of him personally making decisions t