there s even charges. trying to keep track of all these trump investigations. the one in new york, the one in georgia and this one at the federal level, katelyn. he s investigating two things, one is january 6th, the other is his handling of classified documents. tell us about that. reporter: you hear what s happening in new york and georgia. there s still a very precarious situation for donald trump in the mar-a-lago documents investigation that s been going on for a year. what has happened over the past few days has really put him and his team on the defensive. that s because the justice department had taken this extraordinary step to try and force answers out of his defense lawyer, evan cork rin. a federal judge agreed with the justice department on friday, that was judge howell in the d.c. district court. corcoran now is trying to hold off having to go back and testify to the grand jury and provide even more information about his private conversations
prosecution better than trump himself does because he s in more command of the facts. here is what he also did. he didn t defend trump, but he also pivoted to a culture war argument. as part of that comment he mentioned this is soros-backed prosecution which is on line code for anti-semitism and the idea that one of the world s biggest philanthropists who is a hole caught survivor is somehow running this investigation? let me come back to the soros thing, but i want to note one other thing, which is that donald trump did respond to this. he said on truth social ron desanctimonious will probably find out about false accusations and fake stories sometime in the future as he gets older, wiser and better known when he s unfairly and illegally attacked. even classmates that are under age or possibly a man, this is attached to a story about how when desantis was a teacher in his 20s, a photo of him with
high school kids much younger than him possibly a man. what is he insinuating there? fake stories? some people are saying. my initial takeaway from that is that these guys are ready to bloody each other. they are ready to go at it. desantis is signaling that he s not going to come rush to donald trump s defense to preserve his front-runner status in the nominating contest. donald trump is saying, if you punch me, i m going to punch you back and it s going to get nasty. and the soros stuff on the side, too, right? i think donald trump clearly needs to figure out how he s going to attack ron desantis. there have been talk about meatball ron, ron
he left just before 5:00. what he was coming in to say, according to trump s attorneys, is that he had information that could undercut michael cohen s credibility. cohen is the star witness in this case, the person that facilitated these hush money payments he said he did at the behest of donald trump. costello brought with him hundreds of pages of documents and including emails to say that cohen told him previously that he believed that trump had done nothing illegal. after costello left, we also learned that michael cohen who was here as a potential rebuttal witness, he left without testifying. his attorney, lanny davis says cohen was available for over two hours but he was not needed. it s not clear if cohen will be called back. we ll certainly be getting to the end of this with a decision likely soon. sara murray, you ve been following the case in atlanta, georgia. we ve learned georgia prosecutors are considering
figured wrought this is going and how this is going to play out. what s your sense of the degree to which she thought the white house wasn t going to play ball and participate as we move ahead? i think she had to know that white house wasn t going to play ball. the past is the best predictor of the future. this white house has not played ball at all with this congress with, this democratic-led congress. we ve seen president trump refuse to turn over documents, refuse to turn over witnesses. that is going to lead to one, perhaps two articles of obstruction of justice. n. these coming impeachment articles. so i do not think that this was any surprise to nancy pelosi that the democrats that republicans and president trump were not going to play ball. but that said, the president has been saying this is an unfair process. that s been a key republican talking point, right? that this is a soef yet style impeachment inquiry, the president is not being given due process. how can he make th