documents, you know, indicates it s not a big issue. the one b area i would say and scanned again through indictment to look for potential areas where that might be the case, there was some discussion about meetings in the white house involving national security, a meeting with s milley that took place before one of the infamous oval officef encounters with justice department officials. so there was bleed over between those b meetings and some of th doj meetings. and then the other issue is in the indictment smith also refers to the director of national security and other folks involved in the intelligence community giving trump counsel that all of these various schemes were illegal. so there is some there s some brushing of shoulders with areas that could be potentially classified, but your guess is as good as mine. well, yeah, it would be
garland and his deputy lis monaco were focused on restoring public trust in th doj while some prosecutors fel that top officials were showin away from looking at evidenc of potential crimes by trump and those close to him and, with that, let s bring in our lead off panel glenn thrush, justic department reporter for the ne york times, former federal prosecutor glenn kirschner and anthony coley former justice department spokesperson unde attorney general merrick garland. glenn kirschner, let s tal about the ruling in th classified documents case abou evidence what does it say to you abou this case? you know, it says that th court and the prosecutors ar going to try to put in place all of the safeguards that the can to keep donald trump fro further disseminatin information. he was obviously disseminating saying is that he should not have been, which is what lande him in legal hot water and now the prosecutors and the judg want to make sure that he is
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that was the conclusion of a new ten-page letter from trump s lawyers nothing to see here, just shut the whole thing down now criminal defense attorneys regularly appear before judges and argue that the charges against their clients should b dropped or that an investigation infringes on their clients rights but trump s lawyers did no address that in a letter to th judge, nor did they addres that letter to the departmen of justice they didn t send it to a judge they didn t send it to do th doj. that plea for relief fro donald trump s legal team wa addressed to a republica member of congress pecifically to the republica chair of the house intelligenc committee. and that is highly unusual but trump s legal team i asking here for congress t interfere with an independen criminal investigation in their letter, the lawyers argue that it wasn t trump s fault that this classified documents ended up a mar-a-lago it was white house staffers an deep state government employee who were to blame. bu
let s talk some of the forme presidents legal troubles an we have been following over th last few weeks you ve got key trump attorne right now recused himself from the doj s mar-a-lago documents investigation. all of this coming after corcoran was questioned by a grand jury last month about th case but corcoran is still representing trump and his other probes including trump s role in the january 6t insurrection joining me now is msnbc lega analyst and former federal prosecutor, glenn kirschner. talk to me first about if yo will this development from a corcoran recusing himself afte testifying in front of tha grand jury when it comes to the mar-a-lag docks. there is a basic propositio that no person can be an attorney for the defendant and be a witness against tha defendant. and that seems to be the position evan corcoran finds himself in having testified before th grand jury after som litigation designed to try t keep him from having the testify. he lost a litigation special couns