several viable strategies that could blowholes in smith s case. he s gotten holes blown in his cases before, by the way, including potential prosecutorial misconduct by a senior doj official. former trump attorney joins us here. tim, thanks for being here. where s the weakness in the case that everyone says is such a strong indictment? well, the indictment is just an anything else. and, you know, in my career, i ve seen meant of these types of allegations. obviously it s written in the most damning way possible, using the most damning evidence, while ignoring anything that would be exculpatory. you have to taken it with a grain of salt. in this case there are a lot of legal hurdles to get over. before you get to the issue of
issue of whether republicans can or should re nominate trump he is going to steamroll you. he is a big believer in that mike tyson, you know, saying everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face. quick thought from me. he s 44. so you say by biden standards, he s got three more decades where he could run for president. on the other hand, if he does blink, people will look back and say, well, don t you remember what happened in 2023? it can t be him, ron. it s great to see you. thank you for being here back, right? great point. great point , ron, always with the institutional recollection. that s why we love him. still to come. is hunter biden in hot water, the cnn exclusive reporting on an upcoming meeting between his lawyers, a u. s attorney and a senior doj official, elie honig is here. is a new title really necessary, sir. after bestowowing the giftf renting ease to millions of bump is in order. okay l let s see. , hey, what s thiss of the lease?
issue of whether republicans can or should re nominate trump he is going to steamroll you. he is a big believer in that mike tyson, you know, saying everyone has a plan to get punched in the face. quick thought from me. he s 44. so you say by biden standards, he s got three more decades where he could run for president. on the other hand, if he does blink, people will look back and say, well, don t you remember what happened in 2023? it can t be him, ron. it s great to see you. thank you for being here back, right? great point. great point, ron, always with the institutional recollection. that s why we love him. still to come. is hunter biden in hot water, the cnn exclusive reporting on an upcoming meeting between his lawyers, a u. s attorney and a senior doj official, elie honig is here. how to grow more vibrant flowers . step one. feed them with miracle gro, shake and feed. that s it. miracle gro o to grow
basic building block number one kind of information. hey, what communications did you have with john eastman? what kind of communications did you have with jeffrey clark, who was trying to claim there was a fraud in georgia, when there was none. and he was a senior doj official, bucking to become the new ag in the final days of the trump administration. these are kinds of communications that would have been gettable january 7th, 2021. and it s hard to imagine what the justification was for not asking for them. there are a few things people will quibble about, about how aggressive somebody needed to be on january 7th and what new things they needed to learn. but those were pretty basic communiques and lots of people knew in public open sources about jeffrey clark and john eastman and all of these individuals, some of whom were first interviewed, by the way, i won t name each one, but some of these principles were first interviewed by congressional committee. that s just not the way that
thanks to steve and freddy. that does it for us here. thanks for sticking with us. the reid out is up with alicia in for joy reid. i was hoping to get a shoutout but no dice. evening, i m in for joy reid. we have a lot to get to in the hour ahead. including stunning new details we re learning about the pressure donald trump exerted on his justice department to help him overturn the results last year s election. according to notes from a senior doj official, trump pressed for the department to declare the election he lost, quote, corrupt and leave the rest to him. the doj made news on another front today. issuing an opinion that the treasury department must turn over trump s tax returns to congressional committee that has been fighting to get them for the past two years. we re going to get to all of this in a moment. but we begin the reid out with an alarming and grim newport rat of the fight to contain the coronavirus.