documents down at mar-a-lago so, right now, the one thing donald trump really needs is a rock solid defense team, o teams, plural. but instead, his attorneys kee finding themselves in th crosshairs of th investigators. this is attorney evan corcoran he s a lawyer representing trump in the investigation involving his allege mishandling of classifie documents. today, a judge ruled tha despite being trump s lawyer mr. corcoran is going to hav to testify before the specia counsel. now, lawyers typically do no have to do things like that, because of attorney client privilege. the only time a judge can forc a lawyer to testify as whe there s reason to believe that the lawyer aided their clien in committing a crime. it s called the crime frau exception. and if that sounds familiar, i is because that is also wha happened to trump lawyer joh eastman, who had to turn over trove of privileged emails after a judge found that he an trump more than likely committed crimes in thei
illegality, a propriety in thi reporting but it sure does raise a whole lot of questions cnn also goes on to report tha today, margot martin, former white house staffer who move to trump - appeared before a grand jury i d.c. and that one of the specia counsel s most senio prosecutors was involved i that testimony quote, the staffers are of interest to investigator because of what they may hav seen or heard well on thei daily duties around the estate including whether they saw boxes or documents interes office suite or elsewhere. they are casting in extremel wide net, anyone and everyon who may have seen something, said one of the source familia with the justice department efforts. by all reports, special counse jack smith is quite busy we know from reports to th special counsel has sought the additional testimony of trump lawyer and the classifie documents case a man name evan corchoran. and mr. corchoran has argued that attorney prohibits him from testifying.
request, and the judge wil surely grant a hearing that will cast the loyalties essentially of that person s attorney and a judge may excuse tha attorney, in appoint one for that witness in the event that the judg finds that there is undu pressures being mounted either a carrot or a stick on behal of the witness barb, i want to ask you the subpoena dragnet that s fallen over mar-a-lago, is it surprising to you that - was a lot of people thought th mar-a-lago case, we were tol from reporting in th washington post last fall, charging decisions wer imminent before the specia counsel was brought into this, does it suggest to you tha this investigation is going to go on, much longer how do you read the subpoenain of new witnesses at this stage of the game? , yeah it s difficult to
raise a whole lot of questions cnn also goes on to report tha today, margot martin, former white house staffer who move to trump - appeared before a grand jury i d. c.. and that one of the specia counsel s most senio prosecutors was involved i that testimony quote, the staffers are of interest to investigator because of what they may hav seen or heard well on thei daily duties around the estate including whether they saw boxes or documents interes office suite or elsewhere. they are casting in extremel wide net, anyone and everyon who may have seen something, said one of the source familia with the justice department efforts. by all reports, special counse jack smith is quite busy we know from reports to th special counsel has sought the additional testimony of trump lawyer and the classifie documents case a man name evan corchoran. and mr. corchoran has argued that attorney prohibits him from testifying. special counsel jack smith s team is reportedly - attorney-client privileg do
attorney and a judge may excuse tha attorney, in appoint one for that witness in the event that the judg finds that there is undu pressures being mounted either a carrot or a stick on behal of the witness barb, i want to ask you the subpoena dragnet that s fallen over mar-a-lago, is it surprising to you that - was a lot of people thought th mar-a-lago case, we were tol from reporting in th washington post last fall, charging decisions wer imminent before the specia counsel was brought into this, does it suggest to you tha this investigation is going to go on, much longer how do you read the subpoenain of new witnesses at this stage of the game? , yeah it s difficult to know, alex what s going on but i can imagine some prosecutors have a different perspective o how much information they want to lock in before a case goe to trial i can understand why jack smit might want to talk to all th people who work at mar-a-lag and might have some exposure t the facts that occurred here