the documents investigation. there is an enormous amount of evidence around that, around actions that trump took to not hand these documents back, false statements, knowing false statements that were provided by his lawyers to the justice department that were not accurate. and, in larger behavior by him that shows a sustained way of acting with these materials. and, because of that, this sort of conventional wisdom of sorts in the former, federal prosecutor legal community is that there will be a decision sooner than there would be in sooner documents than there would be on january six. i remember the tweet, donald trump sent how come to d.c. is going to be wild. that was prior while before january six. so, ryan, the proud boys have been convicted. seditious conspiracy, four or
headlock after police say an argument turned into a violent confrontation. when it was over, nearly was on cautious. they attempt to revive the 30 year old, failed. the medical examiner, ruled his death a homicide by chokehold. so far, there are no criminal charges. the 24 year old who held nearly in a headlock, was taken into custody and then released according to police. the video obtained by nbc new york shows neely in a chokehold, for nearly three minutes. the witness who took it said neely got on the subway and was acting aggressively. [speaking non-english] he was hungry, he was thirsty, that he didn t care about anything. he didn t care about going to jail, he didn t care that he gets a big life sentence. today, new york s governor called the chokehold a, quote, extreme response. there has to be consequences and, so, we ll see how this unfold. but, his family deserves justice. with me now, to discuss is former new york prosecutor and civil rights attorney, charles
we i think there are two really significant things in the reporting, one is this focus on obstruction of justice. because i think that is the key to this case, and what makes it different from the kind of inadvertent retention that we see from joe biden and mike pence. it isn t so much that he has these documents but that he was evading the efforts of the department of justice to get them back. typically, cases involving this handling of classified documents are not charged criminally unless there is the presence of some aggravating factor and obstruction of justice would be one of those factors. so, that seems important to me. the other is the reporting that one of these subpoenas was for the trump organization s records related to the saudi backed golf league. connecting that up with an investigation into classified documents which causes me to wonder a lot of things. certainly, there is no answer to these things that we know, but is there some connection that perhaps there is some
donald trump. then, new ethics questions about supreme court justice, clarence thomas. and a billionaire donor. and, with just one week until title 42 inspires, a look at the humanitarian crisis at the southern border as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. i m simone in for stephanie ruhle. tonight, this brand-new reporting that special counsel, jack smith, is ramping up efforts to find out former president trump hid classified documents. the new york times writes, prosecutors have, quote, obtained the confidential cooperation of a person who has worked for trump at mar-a-lago. the report continues, quote, the existence of an insider witness, whose identity has not been disclosed could be a significant step in the investigation. this news comes just hours after the justice department scored a critical win in its
coleman. charles, there have only been no arrest. and many people out there want to know why. what is your take? simone, i think the first thing that we have to understand in having a conversation about the mr. neely and this, cases that we are a very progressive city that does not have issues regarding class and race. and, that perception cannot be further from the truth. this is a city where this has happened repeatedly, and if we think about violence against black people, we have, unfortunately, been at the epicenter of whether it s law enforcement or vigilante justice. you could think about what it was with eric garland, you could think about our majority do lab, or you could think about sean bell. and that s just on the police side. but, we have actually seen this violence in the subway before. i want to remind viewers of a case relating to bernard gets, which occurred loop way back in the 80s, some years ago, where a white man shot a teenager, on the train because he felt