reporter: usually attorney-client privilege protects conversations between someone like barbara president trump and his former attorney, evan corcoran, forever seeing the light of day, but prosecutors believe during the course of this investigation, a crime took place that trump might have suggested some criminal activity. so they had a crime fraud exception, and a judge granted all of the notes from evan corcoran and these large art school sketchbooks, plus voice memos, to be part of the evidence. that is now in the trove, in the hands of the special counsel. evan corcoran is not the only former trump lawyer tonight. a shake-up in the trump legal team, two of the top attorneys now gone, tom blanche is now leading the thing. trump thinks he is a killer. norah: this really places donald trump at the center of the conspiracy. reporter: mxey s. atth t president referred to the sensitive material, according to the indictment, and that term, for me, really explains how personal his ro
Let s get the latest from michelle fleury in manhattan. donald trump has travelled to new york where he is spending the night in his namesake tamme behind me and he is reportedly meeting with lawyers going through last minute arrangements. the team boosted by the appointment of tom blanche who is familiar with what colour cases and brought in for his expertise to beef up donald trump s legal team ahead to what is expected to be a historic day. the fact we sell cable news cameras following him all the way from his resort in palm beach to right here in new york city. police presence has been ramped up and as you can see they have been barricades in anticipation of tomorrow when donald trump makes that journey to the courthouse in lower manhattan. he will be read his miranda
Yesterday and is now we re going to see how it looks today in court is donald trump, bringing in a new new attorney to apparently lied things today. um and to me as a layman. it feels the last minute bringing him in just the day before you re going to face the judge. what does it mean to you? it means that it s game time. it s on prior to today, you can talk politics. you can speak about the fact that this is politically motivated. you could talk about your scoring the president without evidence today is different. why kate from the public relations narrative to what does that indictment say? how do we pick it apart? is it legally sufficient? is there anything we could attack with respect to emotion to decide? smith and that takes a village. it takes an effort by all attorneys on board. it takes the evaluation of it, and it takes the experience, of course of really seasoned minds to evaluate determine what the proper defenses are last point again. there s one thing from a public relati
That we re going to have moving forward? what they did, though, is they took a threat based approach. they re letting intelligence drive the control measures not just around the courthouse or trump tower. but across the city, and this is just locking everything down. i mean, you can. you can throw 20,000 police officers and really shut down lower manhattan . but is there a need to and what? we what we re looking at over the last seven days as we did not see large groups mobilizing around around the president, you know, we re seeing you know some protesters expressing their first amendment, right? but we re not not seeing any type of agitators in those crowds. that are trying to you know, you know, act nefariously or capitalized on the moment and that kind of strategy as it works. it applies going forward as we as we continue to watch and hear what the president says. one thing one of trump s attorneys today, joey said just this morning that he can guarantee one thing, and that is that