hosted by alex witt will start at 5:00 a.m. eastern. that is going to do it for me. deadline white house begins right now. hi there, everyone. happy friday. it s 4:00 in new york. donald trump s once loyal attorney general bill barr recently said that the classified documents probe was the most threatening to trump, and brand new reporting in the new york times reveals why that may be the case. new york times out with some blockbuster new reporting that shows that special counsel jack smith is leaving no stone unturned in his pursuit of answers to questions about trump s conduct. namely, whether he sought to obstruct efforts by the government to get back classified documents. some of which contained incredibly sensitive national security secrets. from that new times story, quote, federal prosecutors investigating former president trump s handling of classified documents have obtained the confidential cooperation of a person who has worked for him at mar-a-lago. it
january 6th, and attempting to overturn the last presidential election. in a sealed legal filing, donald trump is appealing a federal judges order in washington d.c. for donald trump s white house staff to testify. to jack smith s grand jury. the order, the judges order, requires donald trump s last white house chief of staff, mark meadows, to testify to the grand jury. along with donald trump s last director of national intelligence, john ratcliffe, and donald trump s last national security adviser, robert o brien. along with other trump white house officials, the trump appeal is trying to claim executive privilege. to block that testimony, we are always lucky when we have neal katyal appearing on this program, we are especially lucky on appeal news nights. because former acting solicitor general the united states, neal katyal, is one of the top federal appeals court practitioners in the united states. in a moment, neal katyal will give us his assessment of the prospects for
states supreme court. we begin tonight with investigation news. the latest legal development of the day is the news that donald trump has launched another delay tactic. in special prosecutor, jack smith, federal grand jury investigation of donald trump s activities leading up to an on january 6th, and attempting to overturn the last presidential election. in a sealed legal filing, donald trump is appealing a federal judges order in washington d. c. for donald trump s white house staff to testify. to jack smith s grand jury. the order, the judges order, requires donald trump s last white house chief of staff, mark meadows, to testify to the grand jury. along with donald trump s last director of national intelligence, john ratcliffe, and donald trump s last national security adviser, robert o brien. along with other trump white house officials, the trump appeal is trying to claim executive privilege. to block that testimony, we are always lucky when we have neal katyal appearin
Lisa ribbon, Suzanne Craig and katie vang were inside the courthouse. Plus nicolle wallace, and Catherine Christian as special Coverage Of Trump On Trial begins. Now. Good evening and thanks for joining us for our msnbc prime time recap of the criminal trial of former President Donald Trump. Im here tonight along with my colleagues. Big night. Todays proceedings unexpectedly to me were like that helpful moment in the old Agatha Christie style british detective story. Youve been following along more or less, you know who most of the characters are, you can at least remember most of their names. You know the basic plot of the mystery but then there is this kindness, this great helpful moment in the story where the detective sits down under some stupid pretense with some other character and in their conversation they give you all the answers. Its okay you havent been playing close attention all along. They are going to recap the whole story and not only will they get to the big answer, th
Good to be with you, im katy tur. The Hush Money Trial of former President Trump. Defense attorney todd blanche is going through cohens direct hm. Cohen is talking about his dealing with the press as a Quote Surrogate of mr. Trumps campaign, and the secret recordings he made of the former president. Blanche is starting to dig into the stories cohen attempted to bury about trump. This goes back to early days of this trial, alongside National Enquirers david pecker. Joining us now, Nbc News National Correspondent Yasmin Vossoughian outside the court, back with us. Chuck rosenberg, catherine christian, and Danny Cevallos. Yasmin, what is happening right now . Reporter theyre talking about the calls beginning in june of 2016. This is when cohen alleges he informed the former president of the united states, his boss at the time there was a meeting between mcdougal. This was the beginning of the payoff by ami. It was october in which the payoff was made to Stormy Daniels, initial contact bet