Today on inside politics, under the cover of darkness or in the plain blinding light of day. The georgia indictment puts a familiar question on Donald Trumps plate. Just when and how will he turn himself in . Plus joe biden tries to conquer confusion. In just a few hours, the president will use the white house as a stage to explain to voters that his economic plans one year after becoming law have worked. And the politics of mr. Polite. Tim scott uses iowa as a test kitchen to see if voters just might prefer a happy warrior over a form er president. Lets go behind the headlines and inside politics. Up first today, donald trump and his 18 codefendants space an august 25th surrender deadline. The sheriff says they can turn themselves in any time between now and then no matter rain, nor sleet nor snow nor time of day. Between now and then, expect legal maneuvers to muck up the case. Nick valencia is live for us. So far, no sign of any of the defendants. Reporter thats right. According to
him. the the new york times said th report in question according to people familiar with the matter is a document of more than 100 pages that was compiled by a trump communications aid, who is often described as among of the true believers that the 2020 election was stolen from him through widespread fraud. so this had is the document he wants to put out. here s his former attorney, and then i want to get your thoughts on that. there s a good chance whatever document he produces ends up as evidence against him. it could end up as the basis for an obstruction count against the author because it s likely to be fiction and solely for the purpose of contaminating the jury pool. what do you think about that? ty kolb is a really good lawyer. i believe it when he says that could become evidence in the
did explain what the political consequences would be. if the president insists more, that would be up to the white house council. according to the times, mr. mcgahn made it clear at least through intermediaries he s not prepared to do that. is that something you should be making clear directly to the president. i don t know enough about the circumstances to say. the times reporting is accurate, then his message was received. quickly, john? it s stressing how much of a credibility crisis the white house has. you have donald trump saying it s all fake news, what we don t have is a statement from don mcgann denying the new york times report, when my story came out, trump said it was all fake news, the fbi and the justice department had the full text of my report. they knew the reporting, and they did not dispute one fact. and ty kolb his personal attorney. his only comment was, that he would not comment because out of respect for the process of special council investigation. tha
he would have had to hear the threat. it seems unusual that the white house council would not have had a conversation directly with the president, and you raised an interesting possibility earlier, that at that time, mr. cassowitz was installing himself very much in the building there will were tensions between the white house council s office and the president s lawyer who was communicating with members of the staff. in that complex situation, it appears mcgahn may have been distant from the president on these issues, nonetheless, he managed to get his point across. casowitz trump s long time new york attorney. he could have been feeding the president these justifications for the firing? the president had, this was a really out there legal team he
had around him. casowitz who had defended him against women accusers and various mischief in new york, who was late at night verbally abusing people, then you had seculo out there on tv, full of bombast. i know from sources who spoke to don mcgahn he had a very low opinion of the legal team, there have been tensions throughout between the white house council and the legal team handling the russia investigation. what is the legal implication, you as an attorney and anchor of the beat, could this contribute to a pattern as robert mueller builds a case? exactly, that s why this is a big story. it s worse than the comey firing, there you would have some sort of defense of ignorance.