i want to bring in the long-time law enforcement analysts, charles and eli honig, and the police chief has called it heinous and inhumane ahead of us seeing the video, and what does that say to you about what is on the video? >> well, we have not seen the video, and she has seen it, and so has the u.s. attorney, and the district attorney and all of them have stated that it is pretty bad and gruesome. so, that is telling me that one, she took strong action right off of the bat by firing them. the d.a. is going to announce charges later today, and this is why we have not seen the video yet, because they are trying to get as much out front of this as possible. firing, charges, all of that, and getting the people psychologically ready to see what they are about to see, because they are trying to avoid a george floyd-type situation. this is not going to affect memphis, and this could lead to protests around the country, and depending upon what the video looks like and i have no reason to believe that it is other than anything than bad. >> charles, is this effective other than doing what she

joining me now, cnn political commentator -- senior legal analyst, elie honig. and -- cofounder and ceo of all in together. i want to start with the documents. and again, the investigation will determine how they got there, who put them there, who knew they were there, whether joe biden knew they were there or not. that may determine whether this is nothing at all or something that is worth further investigating. but for merrick garland, how does this change his life? >> the big winner here is donald trump. let's be clear. it's a windfall for donald trump yet again. here is why. if we want to take all of the relevant factors that a prosecutor would be looking at in just list i'm in a checklist, number of documents, where they cooperative, they obstruct. some of those would be bad for joe biden based on what we know. some neutral. more would be worse for donald trump, i think, it is safe to say based on what we know right now. let's remember who makes that decision. we have this u.s. attorney from illinois, who is doing the investigation. on one hand, special cou

joining me now is senior cnn analyst elie honig. he was a former prosecutor and worked on violent crimes. i think you get what i'm trying to say. was it heinous, reckless, and inhumane, hell, yes, but do you see in those tapes five individuals knowingly engaged a killing? >> so, michael, i do not believe the prosecutors have overcharged this case. i think this charge falls within the fairly broad range of discretion we give to prosecutors. i do think it's an aggressive charge only second-degree murder. here's why. you have to prove a knowing killing of another person, and what the prosecutors ultimately will have to prove to a jury is that it was reasonably certain to each of these officers that their actions would result in the dealt of mr. nichols. now, this is a really important point, michael. i want to make sure people understand this. the jury in this case will not return a verdict. they will return 35 verdicts because we have five defendants here charged with seven accounts each. the second-degree murder being the top count.

elie honig, looking at the prosecution's case, what do you think they are trying to establish right nowll the google searches are just unbelievably incriminating. they are right out of a horror movie. judges have the standard instruction that they will give juries. they will say, science has not yet invented a way to look into the human mind. that is the instruction. but i will tell, you're looking at someone's google searches is darn close. and this is as incriminating as it gets. this is more incriminating as a confession, really. because a confession, sometimes people don't tell the whole truth, a hedge, they fudge. this tells you exactly what he's thinking. but the key issue for prosecutors here is proving some sort of premeditation, some sort of deliberation in advance, as attorney general coakley said, it's only going to be second-degree if you cannot show that premeditation in advance. and that is where i think the defense is going to focus. >> daniel, the initially the law enforcement said that -- was cooperating with the investigation. now, they know, of course, he's lying to t

let's bring in cnn political commentator alyssa farrah griffin and elie honig. elie, let me start with you. manu laid out some distinctions between the trump documents or the pibiden document. what do you think about this call? >> it's the right call. it's the only call i think merrick garland could have made. the hallmark of a special prosecutor is conflict of interest. if a reasonable member of the public would look at a situation and say, gee, there's some crossed wires there, let's start with the fact that there already is a special counsel investigating donald trump. i think the potential conflict of interest is obvious. hence, there is going to be a conflict of interest, probably even more so when you're talking about merrick garland and his doj investigating his own boss joe biden. i see no daylight between donald trump's situation and joe biden's situation when it comes to conflict of interest. if there's a conflict of interest to donald trump, there absolutely is a conflict of interest when it comes to joe biden and there had to be a special counsel. >>

. -- david urban, -- former president, also cnn senior legal analyst cyst -- elie honig. you heard, elie what the president had to say about being surprised by this documents. what do you make of this? >> so, those documents comments go right to the most important legal issue in this whole case. did joe biden know the documents were there? if the answer is no, legally it is game over. there is no possible way you can have a criminal charge of the person didn't know the documents were there. now doj has to test this. the way you do it i think, investigative lee, is you have to reconstruct how those documents got their, who gave the order instruction to take the documents from the vice president's office over to joe biden's private offices in 2017, who actually move the documents, who had access. but if you can re-construct that satisfactorily and satisfy yourself as to the prosecutor that there is no knowledge, joe biden will not have legal jeopardy. >> what do you make of the how the president said and how the doj is handling it and the white house? >> i agree, we don't kn

joining us, eli honig.ood to have you on. >> jim, good to see you. >> so, as a former prosecutor, say you were involved in this case, would you want the special grand jury findings to be made public? would be that a advantage or disadvantage? how would it effect the next steps in this investigation? >> absolutely not, jim. as a prosecutor, i would not want any of the grand jury findings made public for a couple of primary reasons. first of all, this is an ongoing investigation. you're not going to open up your books to the public to your potential targets, your subjects. you could jeopardize, you could reveal your cooperators, your informants and witnesses and put people in danger and jeopardize your tactics and what documents do you have, do you have wiretaps, all of that could be out there. second of all, as a prosecutor you have an obligation to the people you're investigating. you can't put out negative information about people who aren't even charged yet. never mind convicted. so i would not want this

elie honig, cnn analyst joins us. now a former assistant u.s.rn district of new york. i don't know if you time this book, release without stormy daniels -- the stories office has tried to present evidence to a grand jury on. it you in the book, you have a behind the scenes look at how the justice department chose not to charge the former president? >> it's coincidental. happy coincidence. we're learning today that the manhattan da which the state level prosecutors presented evidence to gradually about that hash money's game. it turns, out i have the reporting on, that is that two years ago or learning for the first-time, that the feds, right across the street, my former office in the southern district of new york, considered whether to charge the same conduct federally and. what's interesting about on the scene, like a perspective from all the different players here, is that they decided not to charge donald trump on the hush money scheme. it's important to understand, why they chose not to. it wasn't because of the evidence, prosecutors actuall

elie honig, appreciate that. >>> coming up, matt gaetz back in the hot seatle we'll explain with brand new video and an update on the tyre nichols video and how it also deals with something else we have been reporting on for a long time, how police spread falsehoods and sometimes directly lie in case where is they are now indicted murderers. >>> first, george santos coming up in 60 seconds. in life - ”" no matter your purpose, at pnc private bank we will work with you every step of the way to help you achieve it. so let us focus on the how. just tell us - what's your why? technically when enamel is gone, you cannot get it back. but there are ways you can repair it. i'm excited about pronamel repair because it penetrates deep into the tooth to help actively repair acid-weakened enamel. i recommend pronamel repair to my patients. >>> have you heard about this republican congresswoman george santos? he's been in the news a lot. i can tell you here on "the beat" we don't cover it every day. he lied. we've discussed it, we moved on, but now tonight developments. this newly elected republica

he's an armorer and former nypd police officer, and we have elie honig. we don't know the answer to how live ammo, real bullets showed up on that set and got mixed in with dummy bullets. as an armorer, after a year since this happened, do you understand how that could have happened? >> absolutely no clue. so i have said before that live ammo and blanks should not be in the same zip code let alone on the same movie set, and i was reading an article how there were literally live rounds on the prop table next to the weapon. if that was the case, and there were her friingerprints on at least one of these live rounds, production should have stopped. there should have been nothing happening with a firearm, and inventory in every round, every dummy round and blank should have been done and live round should have been taken immediately offset or secured in a secure location. i'm beyond scratching my head, how did they get there. i have no idea. >> elie, is this as simple as someone is handed a gun before you point it at someone, you check or at least as you were

. >> joining us now with more is cnn senior legal analyst elie honig.prediction? >> well, pam, i agree with adam kinzinger that there is a strong foundation of evidence in the public realm on which prosecutors are going to make this decision. much of that evidence comes from representative kinzinger and the january 6th committee itself. we need to be very careful when we're getting into the guess org predicting whether doj will or will not indict donald trump because the fact is that prosecutors always know more than we do. there are indicators, yes, and we can draw reasonable judgments from them, but these are grand jury proceedings, there could be witnesses prosecutors have that we don't know, documents prosecutors have that we don't know of, and there could be these incommitteesies prosecutors are trying to deal with. prosecutors are the ones with the information and ultimately this is going to be on them to decide. >> yeah. and they, you know, frankly, it's not about what they think happened or the moral thing to do. they have to have all the eviden

it will be an interesting tactical chestnuts here. >> elie honig, elliott williams, thank you. joining us is former chairman of democrats, -- david urban, who was a campaign adviser to the former president. governor dean, are you satisfied about how the white house handled the situation? >> i think they could've probably done better. i am certainly don't think i would have expose myself to the press corps the way that showed it, but i think we will find that these are very different things, mostly inadvertent what biden did and trump did obviously wasn't. it's ironic in some ways that the big hub are about trump in mar-a-lago has deflated this as a similar issue., i think a lot of people are looking at this and saying that inflation is down so this is just more washing in politics. >> david, what do you make of the appointment of the special counsel on biden and the person who was picked? do you think that is a smart move by maryland? >> yeah, as elie and elie were saying earlier, he had to do it, for credibility of the doj and for the department of justice to stand for anythin

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eli honig, thanks so much if let's put up ely's book one more time if we can. it's a great book. to pick it up, "untouchable: how powerful people get away with it" written by eli e honig. great work, as always. we appreciate it always when you come on the show. >> thanks, jim. appreciate that a lot. >> all right. we'll be right back. lifestyle. at fit any and innovative ways toto make yr e-tron your own. through elegant design and progressive technology. all ththe exhilaration, none of the compromise. the audi e-tron family. progress that moves you. bye, bye cough. later chest congestion. hello 12 hours of relief. 12 hours!! not coughing? hashtag still not coughing?! mucinex dm gives you 12 hours of relief from chest congestion and any typef cough, day or night. it's comeback seas. wait. you're a night manager and mom and birthday cake baker? so adding “and” student might feel daunting. national university is here to support all your “ands.” national university. supporting the whole you. (bridget vo) with thyroid eye disease... i hid from the camera. and i wanted to hide from the

. >> joining us is two cnn legal analysts, elliott williams and elie honig. elie, just from a messaging standpoint and just an accuracy standpoint, the white house could have come out the day president biden spoke. they could have acknowledged there were more documents found, being up front about it, and they didn't. >> the white house messaging was a mess, and it's self-destructive. the specific problem they is this. here's the time line. in november, joe biden's lawyers went through and found classified documents in his office. in december they went and found classified documents in his home. in january, three days ago, they came out and said, we found classified documents in the office. but they made no mention of the home. and that is utterly inexplicable. of course that's a pr problem but more than that. when you're a prosecutor and you're looking at the subject of an investigation like this, you start with giving them the benefit of the doubt. when they start giving away their credibility, it is very difficult for them to win it back. that's why evan per

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. >> we're joined by elliott williams, also senior legal analyst, elie honig, also jamie gangel, who the reporting on this, and david axelrod. elie, let's talk about, legally, how big of a deal is this? >> potentially a very big deal both for joe biden and for donald trump. there's a lot we need to know, anderson, and the details matter. there could be a lot of differences between the scenarios. did joe biden know? what was the purpose? how did the documents get there? how many were there? were they cooperative or obstructive? on paper, those could make the difference between something that is criminal or not criminal. we don't live on paper, nor do prosecutors. and you have to look at this -- i look at this through a political lens and a reality lens, which is is merrick garland, who is going to have the say here, who is known for nothing if not being averse to politics. he wants nothing that appears to be political. is he going to give his own boss, the person who put him in the position as attorney general, a pass and at the same time try to lock up the person who's running against

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also, senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor, elie honig.with us, cnn special correspondent jamie gangel, who did some reporting on this. and cnn senior political commentator david axelrod, former adviser for obama. ali, let's start about, legally, is this helping the deal? >> potentially, a big deal, both for biden and trump. now, there is a lot we need to know, anderson. and the details matter here. there could be a lot of differences between the two scenarios. most importantly, joe biden no? what was the purpose? how did these documents get there? how many were there? were they co-operative, or where they obstructive? on paper, those could make the difference between something that is criminal or not criminal, but we don't live on paper, nor do prosecutors. and we have to look at this, and i look at this through a political lens, and reality lens, which is he is merrick garland, who ultimately is going to have the say here. who is known for nothing more than -- nothing if not being a verse to politics. he now wants nothing that appears to

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with me to share their reporting, tamara keith, evan perez and elie honig. based on everything we know today and we're open-minded to surprises because they often happen. what is the clearest way to explain the distinction, a trump investigation that's months old, more documents, allegations and some evidence the justice department would say of obstruction or at least not cooperation and what we know. >> i think that's the starkest difference, right, you katelyn is describing this months long process. it is not a cooperative process despite what the former president's team likes to portray. in the case of biden. they are trying to portray that they have been boy scouts on this. they went to the archives as soon as they found the initial set of documents and, of course, while the u.s. attorney in chicago was starting to investigate it, they turned up another set of documents in december 20th and so that's the biggest difference. but we can look at what was happening in the trump case to sort of get a little preview of what we're going to see in the biden case

. >>> let's discuss this and more with our senior legal analyst elie honig and david axlerod and analystgie haberman. a senior political correspondent at "the new york times." david, le met start with you. the biden white house has been unable to fully explain the delay in disclosing the discovery of these additional classified documents. if you were advising president biden right now, and we know you used to advise president obama, what would you tell him to do right now? >> well, look from arks political and communications standpoint, the essence of crisis communications is to get everything out as quickly as possible and go from there. and that hasn't happened here. for whatever reason. you know, the original discovery was made, it took several months to learn about that. a second discovery was made on december 20th. and so -- and i think it is created problems perhaps more problems than they would have had if they would have been more forthcoming from the beginning. but i don't know what advice they're getting, wolf, from their lawyers and i don't know what requests they've gotten fr

. >>> joining ifme is paula reid d analyst elie honig. paula, did we know yet, if this is the skextent of it when it comes to classified documents in their possession. >> definitively, we don't know and they don't know either. what we do know is that on november 2nd, the documents were found and ten documents, classified markings on these documents including top secret information uncovered in president biden's former office here in d.c. after that initial discovery, his team decided they would conduct searches of other locations where documents were shipped during the 2017 transition. that included his homes in delaware, and this office. but that took quite sometime. even late last week they were still wrapping up the search in to just those locations. that is over two months. notably, the u.s. attorney in chicago who conducted the initial review and recommended a special counsel, he didn't wait for them to finish the searches before recommending to the attorney general that he needed to appoint a special counsel. we're told the u.s. att

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let's bring in elie honig and criminal defense attorney, bernard. let me start with you. we have been waiting for the district attorney to finish the investigation. two charges include alec baldwin, walk us through what we know so far. >> well, look, alec baldwin facing two counts of involuntary manslaughter and from everything i am hearing from alec baldwin's legal team. they feel blindsided and in a statement to cnn just moments ago they're saying this decision distorts halyna hutchins' tragic death and represents a miscarriage of justice. baldwin had no reason what believe there was a live bullet on the set. i sat down with alec baldwin in august and he told me in that sit-down interview he did not believe he would be charged and he was adamant that he did not know there was a live bullet in the gun. he doesn't know how one got to the set and had nothing to do with hiring those people who he believes were responsible for making sure that an accident like this didn't happen. so we know based on this statement from alec baldwin's attorney, they say at the end we will fig

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. >>> also here with us former federal prosecutor elie honig.this which is helpful for all of us. as sara was pointing out this is what we should be hearing from doj, from the attorney general but there were some questions as to whether or not it would happen. just how important is this step? >> this is going to be a constitutional showdown. what merrick garland is doing is drawing a line in the sand. he's saying, yes, oversight exists, congress, you have oversight powers, doj can and should go up to capitol hill whether it's the a.g. or somebody else and answer questions about their enforcement initiatives. but the line is in the sand we cannot talk about pending ongoing investigations whether you want to know about donald trump or joe biden or hunter biden or rudy giuliani or anybody else that is off-limits and important that merrick garland is drawing that line and an enormous problem if he were to testify about those cases but signaling here i'm not going to go down that road. >> what is important is one thing you wrote about in your piece,

cnn's senior legal analyst elie honig is here, and he's also the author of the new b book "untouchablerful people get away with it" rocketing up the charts right now. what report do we have about what's going on? >> there are three investigations swirling around donald trump. we have been here before, the swirling phase. number of them have resulted in indictment. let's take stock starting with that justice department investigation. it has -- it was 73 days ago, i counted, when merrick garland appointed jack smith as special counsel. jack smith has two jobs, to investigate january 6th first of all. we have not seen movement on that. could be happening behind closed doors and to investigate the mar-a-lago documents scandal. as you said, we have reporting that two people have gone into the grand jury that recovered those documents. that tells us that jack smith continues to move ahead in that part of the investigation. now how is this going to play for now? when jack smith is ready, he will make a recommendation to the attorney general, indict or don't indict. the final word, however, is

let's turn now to cnn's senior legal analyst elie honig.'s start with breaking down what we know about these documents so far. and of course we've just been through this with former president trump, how they compare to the documents found at mar-a-lago. >> sure, victor. so let's understand, first of all, how did we get here? now, joe biden of course left office as vice president back in january of 2017. after that he took a position with something called the biden center at the university of pennsylvania. it was mostly an honorly academic type of title. now, he had an office in washington, d.c. which he left in 2019. joe biden left, but his stuff stayed behind. and now, just two months ago, in november of this year, joe biden's attorneys were going through those documents and they found some of these classified documents. now, there are some vital differences between the biden documents and donald trump's documents, starting with the sheer number of documents. as jamie just reported, ten documents found in biden's office. over 200 classifie

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attorney elie honig with some new leaking or reporting.it as you will given his experience that there's been scandals in the plot that led federal officials to the end of their tenure. the implication is that basically the people charged with enforcing the law thought if donald trump was doing big crimes up here, why both we are down here. maybe the garland justice department would deal with up here. well, two years out from the insurrection, that hasn't happened and now we're seeing the idea that local grand juries might pick up what are, legally, yes, smaller cases than insurrection, but potentially crimes. we will keep an eye on that story as well, and coming up, new evidence coming out in the right-wing violence against paul pelosi. losi doors are new beginnings. -surprise! -surprise! your dedicated fidelity advisor can help you open those doors. for you, mama. through personalized money management that can evolve with new chapters. and they can proactively view your entire portfolio. with an eye on taxes and the impact of risk. so you

elie honig, great to have you with us. congrats on the book. >> appreciate it. >> mika?anuary 6th, two angles there. oh, by the way, just sort of on that one, it seems really serious, the insurrection, like the attack on our capitol. because many have gone to jail for many years for what they did following donald trump's orders. for some, seditious conspiracy has actually stood as a charge, which is historic in itself. taxes. okay, i'm still counting on the legal battles that he's facing. now, we're going to add to the fact that he is suing a lot of people, too. this is something to consider whening of making this guy your nominee. he is in legal hell, drowning in legal battles. he is suing bob. add that to the list of people he is suing. that's a lot of law stuff happening there. donald, just something to think about. >>> still ahead on "morning joe," new polling shows most republicans want to move on from donald trump. we'll dig into those new numbers from the bulwark. >>> plus, a preview of president biden's trip to new york city today. mike memoli joins us with that.