i love when you say the destruction of the semantic train right is that what you re saying? i wrote it down. that is. i love it! i love it! happy valentine s day buddy! to you to. thank you for joining us at home. happy valentine s day to you at home. it is not been a quiet one. we have lots of news this evening regarding the special counsel s investigations into both trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election and to whether trump unlawfully retain classified documents and obstructed efforts to recover them. first of breaking news in the mar-a-lago documents investigation. it concerns trump lawyer evan corcoran who s been representing the former president in his negotiations with the justice department over classified documents found at mar-a-lago. corcoran s already can appeared before the grand jury but tonight nbc news confirms it special jackson jack smith is invoking the crime fraud exception and seeking more of corcoran s testimony. in a sealed filing before a ju
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plus what we know from the doj filing about who asked me have legal exposure. they don t have anything. there is just nothing there. and the legal, political and moral implications of a potential decision to indict the 45th president. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. it is a pm eastern, and we just hit the deadline for donald trump s legal team to respond to the department of justice filing that just passed. it looked like it just came in. we will monitor it, that you know, what it is and what it says. honestly, what it says is a little bit of a sideshow at this point, because the one thing we know for sure is that the department of justice is not messing around. they are not messing around with their investigation into classified documents that donald trump kept at his florida home. last night, they dropped the equivalent of a legal nuclear bomb on the ex president, and it came in the form of this 36 page court filing. no, th
jury, that is very damaging for the former president. it sounds like it in this is our own candle any was put it this way, but the prosecutors are trying to determine whether trump instructed his lawyer evan corcoran to lie or whether trump lied to evan corcoran. that seems to be the essence of all this. is that right? yeah that s part of it and it s also did trump talk to fatten corcoran order to go through one of the other trump world lawyers? who s mentioned in the new york times article and it is a player who s been around trump world and seems to be overseeing different lawyers. who was giving the instruction to heaven corcoran? and did evan corcoran give instruction to christina bobb when she signed that statement back in june? who is overseeing it and what information did they know? does it all come back to donald trump in the end? or was someone else, was it boris epstein who went rogue and was trying to convey false information? that s what the doj has to nail down. they h
that s part of how they would make this argument before the district court judge with the crime fraud exception. it s a very very high bar to meet. it certainly deserves to be scrutinized but if they can overcome that privilege to get that testimony before the grand jury, that is very damaging for the former president. it sounds like it in this is our own candle any was put it this way, but the prosecutors are trying to determine whether trump instructed his lawyer evan corcoran to lie or whether trump lied to evan corcoran. that seems to be the essence of all this. is that right? yeah that s part of it and it s also did trump talk to fatten corcoran order to go through one of the other trump world lawyers? who s mentioned in the new york times article and it is a player who s been around trump world and seems to be overseeing different lawyers. who was giving the instruction to heaven corcoran? and did evan corcoran give instruction to christina bobb