recount what happened. if the secret service was representing that something didn t happen but they are on contemporaneous documentation and that is a lot of people s suspicion when they hear that person people s records disappears and, of course, your eyebrows go up and your antenna goes up. it s going to depend on the facts. andrew wiseman, former senior member of the mueller probe and professor at nyu law, thank you for your expertise. thank you. we have one more story to get to tonight. one that could have major reprecushions all across this country. stay with us. precushions all ac country. stay with us fit together with away things. that s our thing.
law enforcement community wolves that want to devour americans. it is absolute chaos for the republican party right now and for people like mitch mcconnell, it is all bad news. because he s trying to win elections in the senate. and that is not going to happen as long as this chaos continues. let s bring in right now nyu law prefer and former special council for the department of defense, ryan is a coeditior of the national security online forum just security. would you love to ask you first of all, what do you think about the timing, the belated request for a special master by the trump legal team? so i do this it is part of what you said, that it is a level of incompetence. it is two weeks after the search that they finally got around to filing a motion and it was so bad that federal district judge had to ask them to redo it. so that demonstrated
lindsey graham is supposed to testify next tuesday. but tonight, we got the news that graham has asked for an even higher federal court for a state in his case, basically delaying, again. senator lindsey graham really does not want to talk about his due diligence. and no, this case has been overshadowed in the news by all of trump s other legal insanity. but things in georgia are getting really interesting. joining us now is andrew weizmann, former fbi general counsel and former senior member of special counsel robert mueller s investigative team. he is currently a professor at nyu law. andrew, thank you so much for being with us on this friday night. nice to be here, alex. so, this lindsey graham stand a chance here? or is this just running out the clock as long as he can? well, i think he does not stand a chance. and i don t think he is gonna be able to run out the clock anymore. you know, he lost twice this
court to make an application, to at least try and remove the features of people s faces, which obviously can be done. i don t suspect, though, that that tape, the surveillance tape, or anything that s gonna actually help donald trump. so, this claim that he s gonna do that because it s going to help him, this is one where i haven t been a government prosecutor, and i don t think putting evidence out there, when you actually did something wrong, is a particularly good strategy to defend yourself. a puzzle of donald trump. andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel, professor at nyu law. thanks so much for joining me tonight. you re welcome. and we have one more story ahead here tonight. michigan governor gretchen whitmer s legal strategy pays off in her battle to protect abortion rights. we ll be right back. with downy infusions, let the scent set the mood.
will not rest everything we have until they have come for all of for could our rights. be lost unless everything we have fought for we take it back could be lost, unless we take it back. joining me now is can just you joining me now is kenji know professor constitutional yoshino, professor of law and why constitutional law at nyu law you re law school and the director school and the director of nyu of nyu center s center for diversity, for diversity inclusion and belonging inclusion and belonging. it s been a long it has been a long time, time professor great professor. to see you great to see you again. again register evolved all of great to see you as well, them jonathan. in your piece you wrote just a in your piece, you wrote, samuels majority justice samuel alito s opinion is a case to say majority opinion is at pains to that nothing in this say that nothing in this opinion should be understood to opinion should be understood to cast doubt on presidents that cast doubt on pre