former united states attorney for the eastern district of michigan. she is now professor at the university of michigan law school and an msnbc legal analyst. barbara, good evening to you and good to see you. thank you for being with us. i just want to keep pulling on this thread. last night, when we had congresswoman lofgren on, she told me that some of the money raised by the save america pac has been going to lawyers to represent trump staffers who are being asked to cooperate with the january 6th investigation. now just tonight, brand-new reporting from the new york times, reports that at least a dozen of the january 6th witnesses are either having their legal fees paid by trump s political organization and his allies, or have received promises that they would do so. so, i have to ask you, as a former prosecutor, what does this only mean? when you hear about these things? is it relevant when you are prosecuting someone and someone other than that person or their family are paying th
and statements that he claims back up his allegations about election fraud which of course you heard from the former attorney general there himself who says they were patently false. i am told in the coming days one thing you can expect to see is potentially those witnesses who were used tonight saying that their comments were taken out of context. you saw the president who he is talking about saying they were not positive witnesses. it s his own former pick for attorney general, campaign advisor, his son-in-law and even his daughter, who were the ones that the committee chose to use their testimony tonight though we know there are dozens of others of former trump staffers who testified to the committee and they are coming out and we are expecting them what we are told by sources they are likely to say they were taken out the context as a defense against the president in case he is angry about what they said. you often saw his cabinet secretaries when they testified on capitol hill and
that the justice department is moving past what happened to that day to look at the organizing and financing. there are a lot of people on the committee saying we re doing some of that fact gathering, too. maybe merrick garland will get there on his own. running out of time pretty quickly given now it s april and the clock may run out in november. john, speaking of november, the former president of the united states, donald trump, has made an endorsement in the pennsylvania republican primary for senate. he s backing dr. mehmet oz and not david mccormick who is a hedge fund operator, worked in the george w. bush white house, hope hicks and other trumpers worked for. i think the foerm president listened to the hannitys and he said it himself. if you ve been on television 18 years, that s a poll. people must like you if you ve been on television all that long. there were a lot of people you mentioned, the former trump
presidents odd predilection for toilets is in the news today. and as a serious journalist, it s my duty to tell you. according to new york times maggie haberman, when donald trump was president, his staff used to periodically find wads of printed paper clogging the toilet and believed that president trump was purposely trying to flush pieces of paper down the toilet. the former president immediately pooh-poohed these ideas saying, he never put presidential records in their toilet, which is definitely a thing i cannot believe i just said on tv. but jennifer jacobs come from the reporting with her own sources to. she said that trump staffers were trying to fish clumped, torn, and shredded papers out of the white house toilet. who knows, maybe that s why the president was so obsessed with the firepower of the toilets in this country.
presidential records in their toilet, which is definitely a thing i cannot believe i just did on tv. but jennifer jacobs come from the reporting with her own sources to. she said that trump staffers were trying to fish clumped, torn, and shredded papers out of the white house toilet. who knows, maybe that s why the president was so obsessed with the firepower of the toilets in this country. but this reporting makes clear is that donald trump has certainly deployed a diverse range of tactics to destroy presidential records. we ve been reporting all week about how he ripped up records during his time in office, despite being required by law to preserve all documents that he would come across his desk. staffers had to try to jigsaw them back together, taping them back together. other documents were just destroyed entirely. put into burn bags, i didn t even know would bring back swear. they were put into burn bags