spokesperson denied that allegation, but we already know special counsel jack smith has been eyeing obstruction charges, and that does not look good for donald trump. new reports also depicting chaos on trump s legal team. the daily beast reporting trump s lawyers are starting to wonder if there might be a snitch. snitches get stitches. one of the his legal team saying, there s a lot of lawyers and a lot of jealousy. i wrote a piece for this on msnbc.com and wrote with trump you have the perfect storm of lawyers fighting for pole position and client who s prone to embracing the microphone and didn t meet a camera he didn t love. rolling stone reporting trump s team is scrambling to unmask the feds investigating him. he wants to immediately and quickly purge the fbi and doj of officials. joining me now, the reporter who broke the story just hugo, i m going start with you. what can you add to your great reporting about evan corcoran being steered away from searching trump s per
the justice department is considering its next steps after a federal judge today granted former president trump s request for that independent special master. judge aileen cannon who trump nominated to the bench said a third party is needed to review the items that the fbi seized from mar-a-lago. the doj is looking into whether the former president improperly kept classified and top secret documents at his florida estate. joins me now is cnn s sara murray and cara skinnal. walk us through the ruling? she s cited a number of reasons for why she feels the special master is necessary. she said there are swirling allegations of bias and media leaks and pointed to trump s individual interest in and need for this seized property and pointed to two instances where the investigative team was exposed to material that was later deemed potentially privileged so essentially saying we need more than just the filter team in place to ensure that the former president s rights are being pro
there may be another debt ceiling crisis. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com the obama camp today launched an all-out assault on mitt romney s years as a high-powered investment company leader. vice president joe biden slammed romney s business record saying bane capital piled up cash while killing middle-class jobs. jim acosta is out on the campaign trail in florida in st. petersburg right now. here s the question, is mitt romney starting to feel the heat? what s going on? reporter: that s right, wolf, he is. at an event here in st. petersburg, florida, mitt romney did not take reporters questions about his former private investment firm bane capital. in fact, his campaign went out of its way to block reporters asking romney about bane. it was all caught on video. thank you. thank you. reporter: standing in front of a mini national debt clock, mitt romney left no doubt about his message of the day. if i m presiden