neal katyal, harvard law professor, former federal prosecutor andrew weissmann. you will now be followed by all of them analyzing line by line what you have delivered tonight so we all appreciate your reporting as we always do. i ll keep listening then. thank you very much carroll. and joining us now is neil katya, former justice department official announced msnbc legal and allen idlest. neil, this is as big a development for me as i was reading it tonight as anything that we have read in this investigation story this year. that s exactly right lawrence, it is hugely significant. in a sentence, the former president appears to be under criminal investigation by a grand jury. grand jury for your listeners, hey re always criminal, there fact finding bodies about deciding whether somebody should be criminally prosecuted, and an investigation doesn t
of a spectacle. it is truly a fact finding body. and if i m donald trump right now lawrence, i think the increasing pace in broad and scope of the investigation which carroll just confirmed tonight and in even broader language that is in the washington post story, all of that would make me nervous if i m donald trump. looks like the department of justice is taking a close look at all the different ways in which trump broke the law, and when you re donald trump and your ways of breaking the law are so numerous and varied, that s gonna spell real trouble. i think this is a very dark day for donald trump. it s a good day for the rule of law, let the investigation proceed let s see what happens. neil, thank you very much for joining us on this night we really appreciate it. coming up, part of the tribe the top constitutional law to merrick garland, and who has known him for 50 years will join us with his response to the breaking news tonight that
well, i think it is absolutely critical that the american people who have been watching this investigation for the last two years are entitled to know the conclusions of the investigation and they should see the report in its entirety absent stuff that should be classified. when william barr testified during the confirmation hearings he was evasive about making a commitment. legislation i will introduce with other colleagues will require the production of the report. this is an investigation done on behalf of the american people. they have a right to know the results of it. that s a legislative path to have the full congress see the report. there is a potential legal path. i want to read to you from an op-ed from neil katya overnight. he noted, of course, there is no open impeachment inquiry now but that could quickly change if mr.