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and nbc news exclusive, a new record that the federal grand journey and the classified documents case is expected to meet this week. it is part of the justice department and special counsel jack smith investigation into the former president. they re meeting after a brief hiatus. a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. this new report could signal a decision soon on whether to indict the former president. for more, i m joined now by one of the authors up the exclusive report, msnbc s julia ainsley. julia, welcome. tell me what you found out. well, what we know is that they are, what we expect is that the grand jury in the mar-a-lago case, remember jacques met the special counsel is looking at the former president trump s involvement in this mar-a-lago documents, as well as january six. we understand the grand jury is looking at his possible obstruction and classified documents in mar-a-lago will ....
things of what happen in texas also some of the allegations there, it s going to be interesting in just a few weeks during that trial. indeed. thank you, my friend and thanks to you at home for joining us this evening. for the past several months we have watched the far right wing of the republican party hold the u.s. hostage far right republicans in congress demanded major concessions from the biden house or else it would blow up the pretty fragile u.s. economy, they would tank the stock market and push hundreds of thousands of people onto the unemployment so potential catastrophe of their own making. and now there s a deal on the table to stop that catastrophe from actually coming to pass. over the weekend president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy hammered out an agreement to raise the debt ceiling and avoid default. and republicans, they got some of what they wanted in this deal. itd claws back unspent covid relief funds. it creates new hurdles for some ....
Think it politicizes up to a certain extent. if you broke the law, he should be held accountable. cynthia, let s take a listen again to what a former trump lawyer said about this on with the press today. here it is. now that he is convening that, in your mind, is more likely to be a potential charging decision? not necessarily. certainly it could be that they re continuing investigation into other things. it could be that the reason for the break is that the law jury simply expired, and they couldn t have a new one. i m not sure, specifically, i mean, i certainly haven t heard of anything new that would require new testament. i can t imagine that there is anybody else in mar-a-lago. do you testify? when you listen to this, cynthia, all these reasons that he s given, are they all plausible to you? does anyone stand out is being most likely to you, given the big picture? well, there are all, like a teeny bit plausible. like 1% plausible, or 2%. ....
In manipulating the concealment of these documents, then doj s case which has already becomes much stronger. it may open up additional sorts of charges or accounts that prosecutors may wish to indict. that sort of direct evidence is what you re really hoping for here. it would be the smoking gun. can i ask you one more question on timing, joyce, which we re being told the potential charging decision would become nowish in the next couple of days and weeks. what would be the operations, what would we be looking for next as far as all of that? alex, i m pretty sure we had this conversation over the meaning of the word imminent in connection with the georgia prosecution, and we agreed that prosecutors work on a sort of a funky time line, but the reality is because this case involves classified material and doj will ....