she found that evan corcoran's all of every corcoran's nodes, personal notes should be turned over to the government and they were and presented to the grand jury based on her finding that the attorney-client privilege is pierced by the crime-fraud exception did she found that these were notes were relevant to the commission of a crime? i think she handled it poorly because she had them turned over and wholesale fashion without evan corcoran ever having a chance to see any editing that was done and that sort of thing. i think that may well have tainted the grand jury process, but anyway the opinions very important thing an important development in the case. >> what did you make of that portion specifically, we're judged howell describes there being no excuse provided for how trump could miss classified-marked documents being in his own bedroom and on also the revelation that staffers at mar-a-lago were moving things around before evan corcoran could actually get a chance to look at them yeah. i think that from a defense perspective, they can and will have to eat all of those kinds of

said that there was sufficient evidence that the former president was using person 18, who is evan corcoran identified as having corcoran as an instrumentality or as a front man? to obstruct the government's investigation and allow the former president to continue with holding these documents from the investigation. now, howell said that this was their strong evidence that this was enough reason for the crime-fraud exception that required corcoran to provide information to problem persecution. this all comes ahead. >> wolf, of a hearing we have here in fort pierce tomorrow where the the defense is trying to remove some of the some of the some of the evidence that they say was gathered as part of this investigation. >> walt nauta and co-defendants, along with the former president, they're all making arguments against the prosecution here tomorrow. wealth. >> very interesting indeed, evan perez and florida for us. thank you very much. let's break all of this down with our legal experts and i'll start with laura coates. laura on the hush money trial right now, the instructions that were hashed

new documents, those pictures that the prosecution says are of walt nauta, moving boxes before evan corcoran the former president's attorney bernie i got a chance to search for those documents. we also saw, according to prosecutors days, they said that there was a search that happened four months after the mar-a-lago search, and that during that search, there was a there was a found classified documents, including a folder labeled classified evening summary for additional documents were found in the in an office there at mar-a-lago. and now all of this is what explains some of the mystery here behind the scenes, jim, of why a judge ruled that evan corcoran, the former lawyer for donald trump, why he needed to provide testimony. i'll read you just a part of what she says in approving that she says that the government has proffered sufficient evidence that the former president used person 18 in this case, does evan corcoran as a front man to obstruct the government investigation. again, that hearing is now getting underway at the courthouse behind me and we'll see jim, whether we hear here are

that's evan corcoran as a front man to obstruct the investigation. again, that hearing is still underway today, and one of the things we're waiting for wolf at this point is whether we might get a new trial date from judge aileen cannon we'll wait and see what happens. evan, thanks for that report. i want to turn now to the very bold move by three european countries in the midst of the israel-hamas war. norway, ireland, and spain have made a landmark announcement that they will formally recognize palestinian statehood in the next few days. listen next tuesday on the 28th, spain will approve his council of ministers, the recognition of the state of palestine. >> this is an investment in the only solution that can bring lasting peace in the middle east it is a strong call to other countries for to need to do the same as we are doing today in the lead up to today's announcement i've spoken with a number of other leaders and counterparts and i'm confident that further countries will join us. and taking this important step in the coming weeks meanwhile, p

judge beryl howell had looked at this issue a while ago with evan corcoran and said, yeah actually it looks like there could be evidence of a crime year one of the things that was part of her analysis, she looked at a bunch of evidence is before donald trump was charged and she noted that even after the fbi scoured mar-a-lago for classified records, finding hundreds of mark documents, ultimately charging about 21 from that collection. the team for donald trump found four additional classified records at mar-a-lago, as well as an empty folder and a quote, mostly empty folder marked classified evening summary found in donald trump's bedroom judge, howell wrote, at the time months ago, notably no excuse is provided as to how the former president could miss the classified-marked documents found in his own bedroom at mar-a-lago. thus, he gave prosecutors access to his former attorney that's all going to be revisited quite a bit in this case coming forward. >> and as far as today's proceedings, some tense moments as we're getting updates from inside the courtroom, notably it's not like the

that's evan corcoran as part of a front person to conceal documents and to obstruct this investigation. she said that there was strong evidence of the former president's knowledge that there were classified documents being stored at mar-a-lago, even though he claimed that he did not know anderson every perez. >> thanks very much. now to another legal cases time involving the foreign presence, allies rudy giuliani and ten others today pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiring to overturn the 2020 presidential election in the state of arizona includes christina bobb, who now serves as the rnc's top lawyer for election integrity today, arraignment comes after giuliani appear to duck attempts by arizona officials to serve him with a summons which backfired after they found him based on his podcast, can lie has more is that me yes. >> at you, mr. giuliani, i'm just calling the case. >> that's how court started for rudy giuliani is arraignment in the arizona fake electors case. boning in his not guilty plea, giuliani represented himself striking a defiant and familiar tone consider this in

howell and she was ruling on a request by prosecutors to get information to get documents from evan corcoran, who is a former attorney attorney for the former president and what she did was she essentially she ruled that prosecutors had a right to get that information from him because it fell under the crime-fraud exception. >> what she found according to this document, which has just been on sale today, is that in sometime after december of 2022 in a search of mar-a-lago, the the people working for the former president and his legal team found a classified documents, something that was mostly empty, a folder that read classified evening summary. this was found in the former president's bedroom. there were four additional documents that were found in an office there at mar-a-lago. and so this is part of the reason why, judge, decided that this cast doubt on the former president's claim that he had no idea via that they were classified documents being stored. all over mar-a-lago. she said that there was strong evidence that the former president intended to hide classified documents again, tha

he also wants testimony from his former lawyer evan corcoran. he wants that kept out of this case. now, here's the deal. what we saw with he's new documents you're seeing some of the evidence that what the prosecution says support their case. first of all, you saw those images of walt nauta, according to prosecutors, this is from surveillance video this is where he is moving boxes before corcoran and other lawyers were doing a search of mar-a-lago to be able to return those documents? as ordered under a lawful subpoena. what we're also seeing john is one of the reasons the major reasons why judge beryl howell ordered corcoran to provide testimony. a very unusual thing, as you know, he was a lawyer for the former president and he was claiming, of course, attorney-client privilege. but here's what she wrote as part part of the reasoning for ordering that she said the government has profited it, proffered enough evidence that the former president was using person 18. and this case does that's evan corcoran as an instrument and oraa front man to obstruct the government investigation or

>> they gave us not just not your can find what with the defendants did evan corcoran search was a bit different when my team went in they gave us no restrictions. we could go anywhere we want. we chose where to search. >> okay elisa, what are your thoughts on this issue and i wasn't there, although i would have been in the medicine cabinet. >> that's just me. i'm nosy. but when you look at these issues, the fact that we're finding this information out now, and are no more closer to a trial date in that case. that surprise you. >> i mean, nothing surprises me at this point with these cases, right? i've this is we're in unprecedented territory for tori here and look, it's hard for me to speculate. i'm sitting next to somebody who actually perform these searches you know, what happened before you got there, who can say, we do have some evidence. i think there were some photos of people moving boxes, so who knows, we don't know unless you as your to your point lore, we're learning more and more as we go along. so i think we're just going to have to wait and see how this how this turns out

he also is trying to toss a lot of testimony from his former lawyer, evan corcoran. he wants to cut out huge parts of the case against him. judge aileen cannon, we'll get to that eventually. but looking at the court papers now, it's giving us a fresh look at a lot of aspects of this case, including those new images of walt nauta carrying boxes after he was carrying boxes many months ago but he told the fbi he didn't know much about moving those boxes it's great to see you. >> thank you so much. kaitlan. john. >> all right. this morning and i will people are waking up to extreme damage, violent wins, reports have 17 tornadoes touching down once he reported wind gusts of 100 miles per hour, a damask disaster emergency has been declared for 15 counties officials say there are multiple fatalities, multiple. >> and also dozens and dozens of injuries from the storm seen as whitney wild is in greenfield, one of the hardest hit towns wouldn't you? >> what are you seeing? >> well, what we see at just outside of town is destruction. that is hundreds of yards wide. so i'll just

part of the obstruction case against donald trump to get the testimony from his former attorney, evan corcoran on how he was being misled what's interesting about this is that one of the things that judge howell looked at, which she looked at a lot of evidence, and she looked at what happened after the search of mar-a-lago in august of 2022, after that search, the trump team went out, scoured for more records and found bore, including four records at mar-a-lago and an empty folder marked classified evening summary in donald trump's bedroom. judge howell, at the time said, this stinks tie ev and this is the reason that we're i'm going to let you question his lawyer breed creech, attorney-client privilege, and get more information in this case that though is something that donald trump's team has not wanted to fully kotb. do they say, oh, we were trying to be very helpful after that search and found these things here's one of the explanations about that classified folder in his bedroom that we heard previously on cnn more than a year ago has one of those landline telephones next to his bed and i

. >> you have evan corcoran who became a very important witness.o jack smith. you do have rudy giuliani who represented trump in mueller all the way through the election denialism. he's now bankrupt. you don't have many people who represented trump and came out better for it. >> or escaped. >> or came out better, enhanced. tacopina might be the only exception. >> he's been pushed to the side. i don't know if he'll even get paid. if you don't perform well in front of donald trump he won't pay his bills. this trade off that i'll get publicity or i'll get a good paycheck and it's worth whatever personal embarrassment, it doesn't often happen for people. >> what do you say? >> i was surprised the defense went after davidson on extortion. first off, it's highly disputable if that's true. even if it was, you know what's not a defense to campaign finance violation, extortion. it's like playing tennis with a golf club. it's not the right equipment to use to win the game. >> why do you think they did that? >> i think donald trump wanted to go after this guy

it also reminds me evan corcoran, trump's attorney, who was now departed his team because he's become a witness in the classified documents case. after meetings that he had with donald trump about the classified documents and the searches for them. he recorded his voice memos to himself, which a lot of attorneys have commented how rare that is, but it was it was it f since it it's unclear what the intention was, but it protected him in a sense in this because he said that trump was the one instructing him to defy a subpoena. right now, cohen is saying what he was doing, was it the direction for the benefit of mr. trump? obviously, michael cohen to a degree will benefit from the idea that he recorded donald trump in this conversation. >> jury is now being shown the call logs showing trump and cohen spoke for seven minutes and 14 seconds on september 29, 2016. i mean, if michael cohen had said cohen said he led trump, know it was being taken care of and that the matter was being resolved. it might even go in and said, yeah, i was concerned. i knew this was important and i was i wanted t