long. you can feel it. the drip, drip, drip of disclosures about the strength and the specificity of special counsel jack smith s evidence in the mar-a-lago documents investigation. and today, the new york times is naming names. the new york times reveals the workers who moved the boxes containing white house documents ahead of a meeting between donald trump s legal team and doj at mar-a-lago. the new york times reports that the two employees were a maintenance worker and trump s valet, and that they moved the boxes into the room before search of the storage room that sam day by evan corcoran, a lawyer for trump. for trump. this brand new reporting, which we should mention, has not been independently verified by nbc news, raises a whole host of questions when viewed in terms of whether it helps to answer essential questions in the case. did donald trump clearly and flagrantly commit obstruction of justice? as jack smith barrels to an indictment of the president, we h
hi, everyone i know that we say this a lot these days but buckle up it s 4:00 in new york. we re following breaking news on that monster $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against fox news just a little bit ago we received word of a bombshell of a plot twist during what was supposed to be the last pretrial hearing before jury selection begins. here s that headline the judge has sanctioned fox news and its parent company, fox corp, for withholding evidence in the dominion defamation suit and said he is considering further investigation and censure. he is considering appointing a special master to investigate the fox local team s actions now, the breaking point today appears to be surprise evidence that was introduced in court today when this happened, quote, lawyers for dominion voting systems played recordings that fox news producer abby grossberg made during 2020, which were not handed over to dominion s lawyers during discovery we have a team of experts and friends to help us
4:00 in new york. happy friday. it is a very busy day of news here with the disgraced twice impeached ex-president subpoenaed today, and donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election that he lost. also in the news today, trump ally steve bannon has been sentenced to four months in prison behind bars for his refusal to comply with the subpoena from the january 6th select committee. a member of the committee, democratic congresswoman zoe lofgren will join us in a few moments. we begin with an incredible brand new piece of reporting from the washington post that makes it crystal clear that donald trump keeping government records including classified document at his private residence and members club was nothing short of a serious national security crisis for the united states. the post is reporting this quote some of the classified documents recovered by the fbi from trump s mar-a-lago home and private club included highly sensitive intelligence regarding iran and chi
threat today. that faction is seeking to overturn the will of voters in future elections should they prevail in 2022. they made that point abundantly clear as if it was not already at back-to-back rallies over the weekend, headlined by the ex-president in two key battleground states. this election in 2024 they pledge to do that in arizona and nevada. here is what the republican nominee for secretary of state in nevada had to say. jim marchand. president trump and i lost an election in 2020 because of a rigged election. i ve been working since november 4th, 2020 to expose what happened, and what i found out is horrifying. when i m secretary of state of nevada we re going to fix it. when my coalition of secretary of state candidates around the country get elected, we re going to fix the whole country and president trump is going to be president again in 2024. so that really happened. just a little fact-check here along the way, he lost because the voters weren t into either
the florida property. for context, here s what the post says about what the documents found are typically handled. some of the seized documents u.s. operations so closely guarded that many senior national security officials are kept in the dark about them. only the president, some members of his cabinet or near-cabinet level officials to know details of these special access programs and details of such classified operations require special clearances on a need to know basis and not just top secret clearance. records that deal with such programs are kept under lock and key almost always in a secret, compartmentalized facility with a designated control officer on keep careful tabs on their location, but despite the fact that these documents are normally, typically out of reach, totally inaccessible to all, but a teeny, tiny handful of top government officials and kept in the most highly secure facilities that the u.s. government has ever created, these documents were sitting