crucial, sensitive conversations between donald trump and his top advisers. donald trump s team is trying to prevent that. ultimately an argument about executive privilege. i think doj has the better argument because the law tells us that executive privilege is designed to protect against legitimate policy discussions, not to protect against evidence of wrongdoing or criminality. so this is a battle that s ongoing. i do suspect doj will ultimately prevail. and this week we also learned that the special master overseeing the mar-a-lago document investigation this is the special master that the trump team requested ordered trump s lawyers to back up out of court assertion that is the fbi could have planted evidence at the property during their search last month. so essentially what this special master is saying, put up or shut up, right? yeah, alex, this is going disastrously for donald trump and his team. as you said, they asked for this special master. he s now putting them to
that does it for me. thanks for watching. tomorrow on politicsnation, a brand-new initiative by the apa taking action on and fight mental justice and civil rights, administrator michael reagan will be here to tell us all about it. that is sunday, 5 pm eastern, right here on msnbc. american voices with alicia menendez starts right now. on msnbc. start thank you so much, as , reverend sharpton. hello everyone, i am alicia menendez. i begin the saturday with a mar-a-lago special master calling trump s bluff, when the former president was essentially put up or shut up. trump has repeatedly accused the fbi of planting evidence at his florida resort. a special master, raymond dearie, is giving him until next friday to prove it. theory has already dismissed trump s claims he declassified
proud boys, you would have to have a conspiracy and a plan. what they did lay out was the idea that this was not coincidence. this is not happenstance. it wasn t as if on january 6th they had an epiphany and said let s all gather today here. no spontaneity, that s gone. they knew all this, and remember, the phrase put up or shut up, which pat cipollone talked about. put up or shut up. there was no evidence to support the fact that any of what the people were being told at the capitol was legitimate. there was no widespread fraud. trump knew that. his team told him, his lawyers told him. he still decided here is the last-ditch effort. i will summon these people to come here and then do what you will. he knew there were weapons in the crowd. this is so important. so the last hearing, we know there were weapons in the crowd. he didn t care about that. he still wanted to march on the capitol. now we have an archival draft tweet that wasn t sent, which talked about going to the capito
other people involved that allegedly spoke to the president on the day of the insurrection, during the attack on the capitol. congressman jim jordan. he has also refused to comply with the subpoena from the committee. they have warned him, he has until june 11 to cooperate. he has a deadline. so let s put up or shut up. is it possible, you think, that he could also be indicted? for contempt, if he doesn t comply with this level subpoena? again, this is a more nuanced question. we haven t necessarily had a situation where a sitting member of congress has been held in contempt of that body. so this would be uncharted water, to some extent. but again, it is not the committee s decision on whether or not jim jordan would be indicted. they refer that matter to the department of justice. the department of justice ultimately makes a decision about how they will proceed. but again, i think the committee is making very clear that they are not going to tolerate this kind of recalcitrance. it s a
much, and we have these pilgrimages to mar-a-lago trying to get his blessing. right wing extremists are nominated for federal house in the senate. the washington post says, mar-a-lago seeks to expand by a republican challenger. here is how one is running in washington state. quote, kent said he has little interest in fighting with democrats if he makes it to congress. instead, he wants to force republicans into tough votes, starting with a 2020 presidential election which he says was stolen from trump. a lot of it will be shaming republicans, kent said. i need to be going after the people in the republican party who want to go back to go along to get along. it s put up or shut up. sochi, you re a democratic