charges, in this case is jus the tip of the iceberg washington post reports that a federal judge has grante prosecutors requests to forc trump lawyer evan coren to testify before grand jury abou the former president possession of classified documents. he handled the initial respons to requests for trump s team t return the documents, an refused to until investigators questions, citing attorney client privilege that defense is now gone joining me now, former actin solicitor general of the unite states professor of law georgetow university, and msnbc lega analyst. anthony, holy former directo of the author of public affair in the department justice, and former senior adviser to attorney general merrick garland. and pulitzer prize-winning journalist charlie savage. washington correspondent for the new york times, msnb contributor, and author of power wars, the relentless ris of presidential authority an secrecy. what a powerhouse panel i have with me this morning i m going to st
hour the state department is callin earlier reports of a new prisoner exchange agreemen between iran and the unite states a cruel ally. the report today on irania state tv attributes the foreig minister with making tha statement about the prisoner swap deal. again, the u.s. is rejecting that statement let s hurry to embassies megan fitzgerald who standing by i london let s get to what this is al about. what do you know, megan? alex, you are absolutel right. what we know is that the iranian foreign minister mad these remarks on iranian state tv saying that iran in the u.s. have made this deal to exchang prisoners that the iranian sid is all set and ready to go they re waiting on the u.s side to sort things out. the ministry saying that he hopeful that this would happen soon of course, there was no detail provided there was no evidence suggeste of what this is all about. as you said, the united states government, the stat department saying that this is a cruel ally we are he
really dangerous in an effort to just rewrite history. the american people know wha happened on the day. they understand from the january six hearings and fro watching the events of tha day. ultimately, i do not think tha mccarthy is going to succeed it is in certainly testimony that he engages in thi behavior congressman, a fina question for you they sat on for me you are leaving congress o june 1st to being in the house for more than a decade, wher are you going? why are you resigning? i am going to become th president and ceo of the rhode island foundation. one of the oldest and larges community foundations in the country. it does incredibly excitin work here in rhode island. i will be able to work hard to make life better for rhode island or. s doing it back home. i ve been in elected office fo almost 30 years, almost half m life, i m really excited about this new adventure and the opportunity to lead this incredible institution bac home you are leaving congress bu he will s
benny thompson said about this who, remember, was the chairma of that panel. watch. i said early on last mont that the release of the footag was important, that it shoul be released to every outlet, including cnn. every media outlet every defense attorney so that the public can see for itself and there was violence on that day, you cannot deny that. and it was a dark day in our history. it s part of this misinformation that is being put out there about th speaker s office and obviously with another network, so w will see we stand by our work as committee, we feel very prou of it. i think based on the reactio that we ve gotten overall, people saw what pierre wit their own eyes what happened alex, obviously media outlets including ours have no received that access tha mccarthy has promised yet, but