the case against trump, and his testimony played a key role. the thing about cork reupb s role here is how unusual it is. he took a lot of notes about his conversations with his client and that makes one thing that perhaps he was worried about something coming back later, about his actions here. a rare thing happened in this case, which is prosecutors got to break through the attorney/client privilege. prosecutors convinced a judge that evan cork run s advice, his notes have become a key piece of evidence. on may 23rd, 2022, he meets with his client 12 days after the subpoena was issued. upon receiving this subpoena the former president confers with his attorney and suggests that perhaps they should not comply with this, or lie to the fbi
documents that need to be returned to the federal government. after that conversation on may 23rd, 2022, trump and his attorneys agreed that the storage room boxes would be searched for confidential documents on june 2nd. but something strange, perhaps even criminal, happened. at trump s direction aide walt nauta moved the documents. the 64 boxes were moved tots former president s residence, his private residence, inside the club. the key here is why did you move the documents in the first place after there was a subpoena? according to the indictment, on june 2nd, just hours before corcoran conducts his search, less than half of those boxes are returned from trump s residence back to the storage room. there are 30 boxes that walt nauta and another person move back into the storage room, and then evan corcoran does his search. he finds 38 documents with
documents and per the indictment, even suggested to one of his lawyers they lie to the fbi and the grand jury and tell them that he did not have some documents that have been subpoenaed. quote, on may 11th, the grand jury issued a subpoena. the subpoena to the office of donald j trump, requiring the production of all documents of classification markings in the possession, custody, or control of trump or the office of donald j trump. two attorneys representing trump, trump attorney one anti trump attorney to, informed trump of the may 11th subpoena, and authorize trump attorney want to accept service. on may 22nd, 2022, he nauta entered the storage room at 3:47 pm and left approximately 34 minutes later, carrying one of trump s boxes. on may 23rd, 2022, trump met with trump attorney one anti trump attorney to at the mar-a-lago club to discuss the response to the may 11th subpoena. trump attorney one and two told
for these investigations for these interviews and that being presented to the grand jury is it what makes up the guts of this indictment we are seeing today. john: shannon, stay with us. also get jonathan turley in here. we are just going through this and again, reading some of the evidence that the prosecutors have against the president, they detail a conversation that he had on may 23rd, 2022, with a couple of his attorneys where the president, according to the doj said i don t want looking, i don t want anybody looking through my boxes, i really don t, i don t want you looking through my boxes. president goes on to say, what if we, whatps if we just don t respond at all to the subpoena i guess or don t play ball with them. president goes on to say. wouldn t it be better if we just told them we don t have anything here. well look, isn t it better if there are no documents.