materials were likely concealed and removed from mar-a-lago as part of an effort to obstruct the federal investigation. correspondent david spunt starts us out tonight. is he in palm beach, florida. good evening, david. john, good evening to you. on the eve of a federal court hearing, where president donald trump, former president donald trump s legal team will appear before a judge to ask for a special master to go over documents seized from mar-a-lago earlier this month, the justice department is laying out a new timeline with brand new details. federal investigators focusing on potential obstruction of justice over the handling of classified material taken during a day long search of former president trump s florida estate. in this court filing, the justice department says, quote: government records were likely concealed and removed from the storage room and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government s investigation. this after the trump team was served a
i know you re probably going to be head of the cia, but do you believe you can deliver the goods on this in a pretty short order in the first couple months so we can get rolling on prosecutions? yes. one thing we learned in the trump administration the first go around is woo have to put in american patriots top to bottom. we got them for law enforcement, for intell collection, for offensive operations, for dod, cia, everywhere. that s kash patel, who might run donald trump s cia, and how about stephen miller at the doj or chief of staff steve bannon? those are just some of the people trump would likely dredge up from the maga swamp if he somehow gets a second presidency. speaking of trump, he was back in court today, and there s new reporting on the signals from prosecutors in georgia that they expect trump and/or his codefendants to get prison time. plus, an update on the major scandal involving florida s republican party chair and his wife, which is shining a light on
version. the reidout starts now. tonight on the reidout under no circumstances you are promising america tonight you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody. except for day one. except for he s going crazy. except for day one. meaning? i want to close the border and i want to drill, drill, drill. that s not no, no. that s not retribution. i m going to be i m going to you know, he keeps we love this guy. he says you re not going to be a dictator, are you? i say, no, no, no, other than day one. the day one american dictator whose plans for a second presidency are right out of the play book of venezuelan dictator nicolas maduro. seek vengeance against your opponents, muzzle the press, call off elections. former trump lawyer michael cohen joins me. plus, new reporting on the almost 200 person witness list in trump s georgia election interference case. including pence, barr and bannon. but we begin tonight with a unique
president s nominee? potentially, right. i mean when i get off the call here i will start texting susan collins, lisa murkowski, see if they wake up and respond to me not that i m texting, i would never betray sources live on television this early in the morning. lindsey graham is the third. they voted for brown jackson the first go, so it is a different calculus, right. you have to remember that for the most part susan collins has always voted for supreme court nominees of both party with one glaring exception, and that s kavanaugh. it is possible those three, but it would be nice to say it would give democrats certainly a political argument there s bipartisan support. but as to the makeup of the court, i don t suspect they re going to need republican votes. and just briefly, hans, we are assuming all 50 democrats stay together, right? again, like i ll text you manchin s number after this call and you can text him and then
you run. you never had to guess where lyndon johnson was coming from. he was coming from the growing up in the hill country of texas. now, that is my kind of television. or streaming or whatever. so joining me now is the former domestic policy adviser for president barack obama currently executive director of institute and appears in this new series. this looks fantastic. let s talk about this. at the beginning of this term, the current president, you heard a lot about how joe biden had the opportunity to be the next lbj, pass the sweeping domestic agenda. how do you think it is playing out so far? you re right. it is great to be with you. but you re absolutely right. we heard a lot about that and you often hear references about lbj with about any president when it comes to passing legislation because lbj was masterful at doing it. he lost medicare the first go