hardest thinking man in hollywood enter weisman. today on trump s truth social donald trump has this to say. strange, he s talking about this picture of classified documents on the floor. everything about the boxes was so neat, orderly, and clean. did the fbi tip over the one box the way they staged the papers on the floor during the raid of mar-a-lago only to apologize after getting caught? you pointed this out, andrew. none of the information in the indictment is from the fbi. it s from trump s own people. that seems deeply meaningful here. absolutely. and not only is it his own people but it s not his own people with a lot of baggage like michael cohen where you are putting someone on the stand were you on the what you re getting which is a guy who speaks to the media all the time and has admitted to committing perjury. that s not an easy witness to have on the stand. here, let s see, you ve attorneys 12 and three, that would be his personal attorney s. you ve employees one and t
when donald trump, the man who ran a campaign in 2016 promising to strengthen laws concerning classified information is now, as a former president, facing 37 federal charges for his mishandling of classified materials after leaving the white house including 31 alleged violations of the espionage act. trump is being charged specifically under the espionage act, the part that goes against whoever willfully retains national defense information and failed to deliver on demand to the officer or employee of the united states entitled to receive it. free to be a violation of the espionage act information does not have to be classified which is important to consider given that central to trump s defense here is the idea that at some point somewhere he declassify the documents he had in his possession although recently unearthed evidence on tape suggests he didn t know such thing. and once again joined here by my colleagues, joy reid, chris hayes i want to bring back the
any of these boxes at all. this document today just erases literally races every single thing that is trump s criminal defense lawyer has said on television prior to last night. every single word they have said has been erased. and yet he will probably get some new lawyers whoever they may be for whatever reason. the person who has a stake in that donald trump reelection is e walt nauta. we will talk about him coming up, he s probably the de facto chair of a new reelect on trump super pac at this point. lawrence o donnell, i heard you had a show at ten pm on msnbc, so so i m going to let you go get ready for that show. take as long as you want when it rolls up to ten pm don t feel any will traditionally do. it s nothing religious about that ten pm. you will get it on time tonight sir. the rest of you stay seated please i special coverage continues after this break.
he had all of it moves around his florida property and when it came time to finally give it up trump gave his own lawyer access to less than half the boxes in his possession. it notes taken by one of trump s lawyers trump s had to have told them i don t want anybody looking, i don t want anybody looking through my boxes, i really don t. i don t want you looking through my boxes. wouldn t it be better if we just told them we don t have anything here? i want to turn on my panel. chris let me just with you. in terms of the sense of kind of childlike desperation around all of this, and the degree to which trump himself is physically blowing through all these boxes to the degree that it one point walt nauta his coconspirator has to access for new bucks tops. aubrey from the night indictment, on january 15th 2022 nauta sent trump a plea in four consecutive text messages. one thing you asked for is new cover for these boxes for monday morning. can we get new box covers before giving them
the fact that his lawyers have in recent days that he has been a target of this investigation comes both the espionage act of the inga government and is very significant and part of the impetus for basically the legal team in their meeting on monday with both special counsel and the senior career official and the attorney generals office, to try and stave off an indictment, and allegations on prosecutorial misconduct, and getting the special counsel to stand down. glenn, what do you think, what is your reaction to trump s lawyers being told he is a target? yeah, i don t think it came as a revelation but i think it is, helpful stuff, to talk about it either apartment of just this definition of target it is apparently they have somebody is a target. is a to protest. one, a target is a person for whom prosecutors have substantial evidence linking them to the commission of a crime, and part two, it is somebody that the prosecutors view as a punitive defendant in