Night. Good evening once again. Im stephanie ruhle. We begin this evening with the scope of the Special Counsel jack smiths investigation into donald trump and new signs that it is still growing. The latest revelation that investigators executed a Search Warrant of Donald Trumps twitter account and the company had to be held in contempt by a federal judge before handing over the material. Here is one former prosecutor on the kind of evidence that they must have been looking for. The twitter files that the Justice Department wants to retrieve clearly relate to that time period, right around the election. All those materials could be relevant. Its fairly typical for prosecutors to obtain social media from the platforms like twitter, like facebook and others. I think the only reason this is getting so much attention is that they resisted in this case, and it had to go to the Appeals Court to get timely compliance. But clearly the evidence here that is important to jack smith in the invest
up to. sam, let s talk about this other part of the investigation. i m megan inre sth looking intos pack. what are you hearing about that? well, look, part of this case rests on the idea that trump s operations were essentially deceiving voters, knowingly raising money for something that they knew was either a moon shot or plain old unlikely to happen legal challenge to the election. that s fraudulent. you re taking money from unsuspecting people by promising them something in the knowingly doing something else with it. this ties back to the chesebro memo which is, look, fundamentally what he was outlining was not a legitimate philosophical or legal avenue for challenging the election. he was trying to create a predicate to create crayons chaos. in that chaos they were hoping that somehow congress would find a way, or the supreme court would enact a rule that