correspondent, andrea mitchell. former u.s. attorney and senior fbi official, chuck rosenberg, now an msnbc contributor. former assistant u.s. attorney and associate independent counsel for the white water investigation, kim whaley, and clint watts, now an msnbc national security analyst. so, ken, what are we learning here about the case that the doj laid out in this affidavit? lindsey, a couple of pig takeaways. one, the doj saying that there are multiple civilian witnesses whose identities they want to protect in this case. not one single informant or confidential source, but many, many people, and that s why they ve asked for all of those names and identities to be redacted. secondly, we re learning new details about the extent of how classified some of the documents were that were found in the origin 15 boxes that were turned over by the trump folks to the archives in january. and it looks like they are some of the most classified documents you can have in the u.s. gove
doj cross hairs. cnn learning tonight that cassidy hutchinson, the aide to former white house chief of staff mark meadows, is now cooperating with the department of justice s investigation into donald trump s efforts to overturn the election. now, this is a major development, because of course, you know, hutchinson was a key witness for the january 6th committee. her testimony there providing a window into trump s state of mind in the days leading up to, and in those crucial moments of january 6th. she was in the room for some of the most damning and important conversations, including one that shows that trump knew that his rally could turn violent, because his supporters were armed. i was in the vicinity of a conversation where i overheard the president say something to the effect of, i don t care if they have weapons, let me people in, they can mar to have the capitol from here. knew they were armed and take the mags away, head for the capitol. ty cobb told us, if this
correspondent, andrea mitchell. former u.s. attorney and senior fbi official, chuck rosenberg, now an msnbc contributor. former assistant u.s. attorney and associate independent counsel for the white water investigation, kim whaley, and clint watts, now an msnbc national security analyst. so, ken, what are we learning here about the case that the doj laid out in this affidavit? lindsey, a couple of pig takeaways. one, the doj saying that there are multiple civilian witnesses whose identities they want to protect in this case. not one single informant or confidential source, but many, many people, and that s why they ve asked for all of those names and identities to be redacted. secondly, we re learning new details about the extent of how classified some of the documents were that were found in the origin 15 boxes that were turned over by the trump folks to the archives in january. and it looks like they are some of the most classified documents you can have in the u.s. government. do
importantly, as you pointed out, the justice department today in a court filing said they had gotten a second warrant to look through some of the things they found on john eastman s phone. because eastman claims that he was a lawyer for the former president, this sets up some potential attorney/client privilege issues is, which is what prosecutors are trying to get ahead. by the way, that warrant, the court document that was filed today was signed by the u.s. attorney, the assistant u.s. attorney, his name is tom wyndham, who is helping to manage the overall case, the case is that is right now circling around the former president, erin. thank you very much, evan. you know, as evan says, circling around. you have hundreds of people charged farther out, it s getting closer and closer and closer. i want to go to a former senior counsel to ken starr during the white water investigation into president clinton.
these other matters that have been raised in the. you know as well just fact check you know as well as me as me that the remit for the investigation says the russia probe i forget the exact language but any other relevant matters that may come up. you know based on the white water investigation ken starr, white water went to monica lunsky. by the law if other crimes are uncovered that s fair game for the special counsel. yes. and why there has been a lot of criticism of the independent investigators and why there was a lot of criticism of ken starr 20 years ago and which there s been a reluctance to do that. so i think that is going to be a political question. it s going to be a question of do we really does it mean all anything that the the special investigator or the special counsel i should say wants to investigate. so i think that will be a political discussion point. but i think the more we get away from the russian collusion, if