Yesterday saying that th former assistant distric attorney, mark pomerantz, wh briefly worked for alvin bragg needs to testify to the hous judiciary committee in accordance with a subpoena issued by the chairman republican, jim jordan we report on that case her last night, the appeals cour has given alvin bragg unti tomorrow to file his appeals briefing and jim jordan will have double line next day, and saturday, to respond to that brief and that case in the cas at the appeals court could achieve a decision on th matter this will be sunday or monda paving the way for possibl testimony. as early as next week or, wh knows. federal special prosecutor jack smith, is closing in on another one of donald trump lawyers. boris apstein, may, in fact, b a lawyer in name only. when it comes to donald trum although he s license to practice law he has served primarily as a political adviser to donald trump.
Considered an incompetent by most people who have bee around donald trump prior to any of his legal troubles an now. so it is very difficult for the, whoever the professional aroun donald trump s, to be having t deal with something like that. the guy has never tried a case, he s always forcin himself to be around trump, he does seem to be something of a buffoon, and to mark s point h actually came on and its official role was consultant he tried to alter that, or h did alter that to attorney perhaps to try to exploi attorney-client privilege. his phone has been seize before and he possibly has involvement in many differen places it is noteworthy that smith wa having a consensual sit down somebody like giuliani, or the others, smith would right away dragon to the grand jury room. is there, as we first tried to find out, what he could tell them and maybe add to mark s point again and look a
And the client for the purpose of receiving legal advice. and so, it he was instea acting simply as its agent and transacting business for him then that privilege would no apply. it is also interesting that yo know that he s taking a step back in his affairs with the trump team i wonder to what extent that i a decision because of trump accusers very difficult to wor with, or to the extent tha he s being isolated, or he i choosing to isolate himsel because of any cooperation tha he might be pursuing really interesting dynamic around boris epstein it is not a new reporting that borne epstein i considered an incompetent by most people who have bee around donald trump prior to any of his legal troubles an now. so it is very difficult for the, whoever the professional aroun donald trump s, to be having t deal with something like that. the guy has never tried a case, he s always forcin himself to be around trump, he does seem to be something of a buffoon, and to mark s point h actually
Some knowledge about both of the cases, jack smith is investigating. i think one of the things that you touched on there will matter quite a bit here. if jack smith wants hi testimony one question will be whether he was acting as a attorney for donald trump, suc that their communications is projected by attorney client privilege, or was he acting as an agent, a business representative onducting affairs for donald trump in that capacity if so, none of those conversations would be subject to the attorney client privilege. attorney-client privilege is actually narrowly defined as communications between a lawye
Civil rape and defamation case but donald trump won t go to trial. and the civil case, attendance is optional. for plaintiffs and defendants. donald trump s lawyers hav informed the court that he has decided not to attend the tria of the charges filed against him by e. jean carroll accusing him of raping her in department store in manhatta in the 1990s e. jean carroll s lawyers have no objection to donald trump not attending the trial because, as with all civil cases, the are basically a re-run of th testimony obtained in th pretrial depositions and donal trump s video recorded testimony of his deposition in this case will be used in th trial. instead of his live testimon on the witness stand of course, not attending the trial will spare donald trum the kind of new york welcome h caught last week when he was