that's one line of reasoning that you might be seeing coming out of mara lago.ast question for you. you're in washington. been talking about that hearing that's happening today on capitol hill, the ceo of tiktok will be up there trying to make his case before lawmakers. you actually went to a dinner with democrats and republicans last night is your sense that there's anything he could say to convince them that tiktok is not a national security threat, caitlin no, and it's very rare in washington about 10 years, and it's rare that i see a circumstance where anybody has no friends in washington, d c. where the republicans and democrats are either united for you or sometimes united against you in this case, and tiktok is there. i'm not sure yet if you get asked to testify before a congressional committee is sort of have to go because it looks really bad if you don't but i have no idea what this guy is going to say today they could possibly change the direction of where washington d c is going so many ceos think they can go into a congressional hearing in sort of co

oceans fbi agents seized more than 100 classified documents from mara lago in august. they should give me immediately back everything that they've taken from because it's mine. it's mine. fbi agent sees more than 100 classified documents from mara lago in august and in november, the attorney general appointed special counsel jack smith, to investigate, among other things, whether trump obstructed the government's attempts to get back all of the classified material still in his possession after he left office, evan corker and crafted a statement in june 2022. claiming a diligent search had been conducted at mara lago, and that all classified documents had been returned. a source tells cnn prosecutors wanted to ask corcoran about that statement and a june phone call between him and trump that took place the same day as subpoena was issued for mara lago surveillance footage that showed boxes being moved out of a storage room. you still have the surveillance tape is that correct? absolutely sean sources tell cnn prosecutors have made clear that they believe trump used corc

and in the mara lago case to federal courts forced trump attorney evan corcoran to break the attorney client privilege. at issue was whether corcoran would be compelled to testify about who knew what concerning the classified mara lago documents. smith was successful in convincing both a district court and the appellate court sitting in d. c to force corker to testify in front of a grand jury based on something known as the crime fraud exception to the attorney client privilege. that means that prosecutors have reason to believe that the legal advice was used to carry out a crime. before its ruling the federal court for the appeals for the district court of colombia required trump lawyers to brief the issue by midnight last tuesday. and then required smith to respond by six a.m. wednesday morning. that type of briefing schedule is highly unusual. and to me, it's a sign of the alacrity with which many are now moving to wrap up their trump investigations. no doubt mindful that the 2024 presidential race has begun. and that includes special counsel jack smith. something else. judge borou

in fact, there were many records kept at mara lago after the presidency, and corcoran was part of thelegal team that responded to the federal government, saying that they had done a deal. login sergeant had turned over any and all that they had found than the fbi came in and found many more classified records. so what's happening today? and the reason this is so notable is that the justice department believes what corker and will be telling the grand jury today is what donald trump was saying to him. the sort of thing where the justice department believes donald trump himself was trying to advance a crime potentially obstruct their federal investigation, so it really isn't make or break day in the justice department does not know or they may know now, but they didn't know going into this exactly what corcoran would say. it's also quite an unusual day in that this doesn't happen very often. there have been many witnesses called to this grand jury before. but it's very, very unusual to have a defense attorney for the former president or anyone being forced to testify again to a federal

this one is regarding the classified documents found at mara lago. remember these are files with us government secrets that are meant to be stored in a special secured facility, a source says. the justice department has now convinced a judge that trump used one of his defense attorneys and a possible crime, and we know that trump lawyer evan corcoran has been ordered to testify before a federal grand jury. trump's lawyers have appealed that. cnn political correspondent sara murray has been tracking this story and sarah there was a big deadline this morning in the appeals process, and it happened pretty quickly. yeah this appeals briefing schedule was wild. you know, a court had ruled that evan corker not to testify. he's the attorney before a grand jury and the appeals court essentially said overnight we want you guys to all brief this by morning, so we are waiting for them to weigh in on evan whether evan corcoran is actually going to have to testify before a grand jury that could come at every time at any time, but you know, this was really set int

kristin joins us now from west palm beach, florida near mara. lago. good morning to you. what does this mean for the case and now for joe tacopina? good morning, dad. well, the big question here is what a judge will decide to do, because that's who it's ultimately up to. whether or not this rises to a conflict of interest that would require some sort of limitation on to campinas role or even disqualification from representing trump. and the big question, as you said, was whether or not daniel shared confidential information that could be used in this case and used against her if this were to go to trial could any information that was given to tacopina to his law firm used against her in a cross examination, for example, or would it give tacopina and trump a leg up now talking to stormy daniels, current attorney clark brewster believes that there is confidential information that was shared between daniel's tacopina and his firm at least believes that it rises to the level of meeting to be reviewed . and as you said, tacopina says that there was no wrongdoing. there's no co

questions of the mara lago document case, for example , what are they going to go out and say then it'solitically motivated and just take donald trump's line on that they all have elections to win. there's a presidential election coming up , and they have to look for those voters who may be tired of donald trump. are those independent voters. are they going to keep on with the same line. i think many of them could peel away. nobody should be surprised during that the former president is fundraising off all of this, he said. they're going to arrest me. on tuesday his campaign had said they raised, i think $1.5 million as of a couple of days ago. um does that help him? i mean, it helps them obviously financially, but just if his goal which i assume should be to expand his base. does that help him do that? no i think it's a sign that he's not expanding his base. i think 1.5 million actually, shockingly low. i think that there was a time where if this was happening to trump the number would be much, much bigger. i think he is, uh, squeezing last bits of juice about his from his diehard smal

cnn's christian homes is in west palm beach, florida near mara lago. so christian, what more can you tell us? well people are trump's reaction to this pending indictment or likely indictment is really run the full spectrum . as you said, at times, he has toyed with the idea of creating this media spectacle outside of the courthouse and other times, he has celebrated that this could help him politically, well , also complaining that this is incredibly unfair and from a lot of sources i've spoken to recently have been in touch with the former president. they say recently. he has been actually ignoring this, and they believe this might be some sort of compartmentalization. or resignation to the fact that this is happening, and it's just time to move on. one thing that i thought was really interesting from the number of close advisers that i spoke to of the former president is what we're hearing all of these allies and republicans publicly say that trump is going to be helped significantly politically by this. those closest to him weren't so adamant. they

responding to all of the parts of the mara lago investigation, as the criminal prosecutors have been trying to figure out why they couldn't get back or if they had even gotten back over the classified documents that were at mara lago. so if you look at that timeline, the timeline of all of the things he was part of that is what we know now through reporting from my colleague, sara murray tonight what he's going to be asked about tomorrow, so he's going to be asked about the may subpoena that they got from the justice department last year, saying return all the classified documents you have. their response to that the searches they did the draft letter they wrote back to the justice department, saying here it is. here's what we found. we did searches. you've got all and everything. at that time. they didn't get everything back. but that's what he was. he and other lawyers were saying and then also, there was a june phone call between evan corcoran and donald trump that the prosecutors could learn about and it was on the same day that the trump organization was subpoenaed for surveilla

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the documents found at mara lago has seen compelling evidence now that donald trump used his attorney to help further a crime. so the big question could that attorney now have to testify, plus federal reserve chair jerome powell just hours away now from the decision that is considered to be maybe the most significant of his career. will he decide to raise interest rates again to fight inflation? and if he does , can he avoid the dreaded b word and the r word both at the same time? what are those words bailout and recession? thank you . my imagination. there was that was running him up. we will discuss and to colorado dentist has now been charged with killing his wife. the mother of his six children by poisoning her protein shake. we have new developments in that case as well, but we do begin this morning with cnn exclusive reporting. we are learning that emails between stormy daniels and one of trump's attorneys and his firm had been turned over to the manhattan district attorney. these emails from 2018 when daniels was looking for an attorney and reached out to joe tacopina, that nig

and then remember, we learned, of course, when the fbi showed up in search mara lago that that wasn'taccurate. there were plenty of other documents. floating around with classification markings. so in january of this year, evan corcoran goes before the grand jury he deserves. preliminary testimony refuses to answer a bunch of questions, and that sort of gets us to where we are now with this flurry of legal motions before these courts, and ultimately this decision by the appeals court that he has to go back in murray appreciate. i want to get some perspective now from cnn contributor john dean, who served as white house counsel in the next administration has certainly familiar with presidents facing legal jeopardy. also harvard law school senior lecturer and former federal judge nancy gertner john how big a deal is this ruling from the federal court in washington. i think it's a big deal. it's a big deal because this contrary to trump's take. he could be a remarkable witness with documents to cooperate his own statements. apparently he made contemporaneous notes that he dictated and th

they did another search of mara lago. they searched his bedminster property and offices storage space. tim was the one running that show. so we've learned that he went before the grand jury and he had to testify about how did you choose the locations who searched them because they did hire investigators to help with that search? he was also we've learned pressed on whether there was a shell game where you moving things from mara lago to a storage space, and he also had to hand over reports that he had compiled about these searches actually did an exclusive interview with tim about a month ago. i think it's only tv interview, let's take a listen to how he described the interactions with the o. j. we conducted a search back in december, which is where we found these documents, and we turned them over immediately. these were not turned over last week. although you know the doj leaked that last week. this was turned over back in december. and so we have gone through. we've tried to work with the doj . we've tried to do search

she was at mara lago for his presidential announcement. she's being spoken of as a possible running mate if he's the nominee , so when that comes, she will certainly no rally around him a lot of her supporters well as well. so it will be interesting to see if that kind of gives her a booze. i think she's already probably viewed as the leading candidate if she gets it, and that could kind of alter that a little more. yeah it's interesting because it goes back to the what happened during the midterms and the qualified candidates argument that republicans were making like mitch mcconnell. we need to run qualified candidates and also republican leaders in congress as well saying the same thing, patricia, i want to turn to you. minneapolis was ground zero for social justice protests following george floyd's murder. with trump famously tweeting when the looting starts the shooting starts and calling the protesters, thugs, among other things. what is the average voter think about these investigations and how it would affect trump in the primaries

the investigation into the classified records being kept at mara lago after the presidency, and it also is the sort of situation in court where there is a history history being made here, a legal proceeding like we have not seen before. where this attorney for the former president of the united states is going to have to answer questions that donald trump does not want him to answer. certainly doesn't caitlin stay with us? i also want to bring in our legal and political analysts and normalize and let me start with you does the fact that rumps lawyers being ordered to testify now speak directly to trump's legal jeopardy here. it does wolf, the attorney client privilege that protects communications between trump and his lawyers is a sacred one. it is only overridden when you have extreme circumstances here. the possibility of a crime or a fraud that the lawyer was being used to advance or cover up. a judge has now found, and it's been affirmed by the court of appeals that that happened. that means that the evidence that mr corcoran will will provide his conversations with trump, his notes

folks around him at mara lago are saying now as he plans to go to texas, for example, this weekend? yes. they expected indictment. what are they telling you? yeah trump has been behind closed doors, really running the false spectrum of reaction to this potential indictment. there are times when he has complained it is unfair. there are times he has celebrated at saying that it's going to help him politically, and there are times where he has just ignored it altogether, and his aides say that part of this, they believe is compartmentalization, but also the fact that he has resigned himself. to the fact that he is going to likely be indicted and what they're gearing up for is preparing this new normal. how exactly are they going to run a campaign under this indictment, and they're not operating with a lot of information, as all of us are in terms of timing and what that would look like. i had 18 talking to me about that trip to texas in particular saying, okay , so if the indictment comes down on a friday saturday. we just go to texas. you know, there's a lot of unknown here. this wou

a june phone call between him and trump that took place the same day as subpoena was issued from mara lagourveillance footage that showed boxes being moved out of a storage room. you still have the surveillance tape is that correct? absolutely sean sources tell cnn prosecutors have made clear that they believe trump used corcoran to advance a crime . a trump spokesperson has fired back, accusing the justice department of continuously stepping far outside the standard norms and an attempt to destroy the long accepted long held constitutionally based standards of attorney client privilege and executive privilege. from the beginning he has tried to cooperate, and trump attorney tim par later tells cnn. he also testified before the grand jury in december, divulging details about additional searches for classified documents he organized at several trump properties last year. they would rather make this into an adversarial fight and try to make it into a criminal case. special counsel jack smith will now be getting an influx of new information, both from evan corcoran being forced to testify in

they hadn't found all of the documents that were classified on the property of mara lago at that time, so they want to ask about that. and then finally alex sara's reporting that they want to ask about the june phone call that the prosecutors know happened at this time between donald trump and evan corcoran, the same day that the trump organization was subpoenaed for surveillance tapes at mara lago. those surveillance tapes apparently showed people moving boxes around that appeared to may have had class. my documents in them. kailyn stick around. terrific new reporting from you and sara murray want to keep this discussion going norm first to you? i just want to ask your reaction to what caitlin just reported these new details about what we could expect. trump attorney every every corcoran to testify to tomorrow. what do you make of that? um alex. one word obstruction of justice from the may subpoena through to the search for documents the statement to the government and then the tape with the documents being moved. we already know there's probable cause of obstruction by donald trump

and what about the latest in the mara lago case, or developments there as well? it's been a busy few days for jack smith. this is, of course, the other criminal investigation that he's overseeing, and you know, trump's own defense attorney in the mara lago case, had to come in and testify before the grand jury, and a few days before that happened. it was the expectation set by a judge that he would have to answer questions, which is rare in a criminal case. like this and so the grand jury wants to hear more about the interactions between trump's legal team and the federal government leading up to the fbi rate of mara lago, right, and so they want to know why more classified documents were found there after the legal team said to the best of their knowledge that there weren't any more so the expectation is, he was asked and had to answer questions about that. alright zachary cohen, thank you very much with his unique insights. cnn senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor elie honig joins us now to break down some of these headlines. ellie thanks so much

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fbi agents seized more than 100 classified documents from mara lago in august, and in november, the attorney general appointed special counsel jack smith, to investigate, among other things, whether trump obstructed the government's attempts to get back all of the classified material still in his possession after he left office , corker and crafted a statement in june 2022 claiming a diligent search had been conducted at mara lago, and that's all all classified documents have been returned, a source tells cnn prosecutors wanted to ask corcoran about that statement and a june phone call between him and trump that took place the same day as subpoena was issued for moral lago surveillance footage that showed boxes being moved out of a storage room. you still have the surveillance tape is that correct? absolutely sean sources tell cnn prosecutors have made clear that they believe trump used corcoran to advance a crime . a trump spokesperson has fired back, accusing the justice department of continuously stepping far outside the standard norms and an attempt to destroy the long accepted long held

this is the grand jury investigation into the potential mishandling of classified records at mara lago and possibly obstruction of justice. we don't know if there will be charges that emanate from this, but what the justice department has done so far to get us to this point is really putting an emphasis on how close they believe they are to locking up this case, they believe that there was the advancing of a crime. it's quite significant. and evan corcoran really is the central person the central witness to the conversation. rations what was what donald trump was thinking and wanting to do as the justice department was trying to get classified records that he had at mara lago back in their possession at the federal government and that they weren't just turning over all of the things that were there. caitlin poland's cnn, washington as the various investigations into donald trump heat up one of his top rivals for the 2024 republican nomination, is now striking back at the former president. and this is a notable change for florida governor ron de santis, who until now has generally avoid

trump, who was responding on his behalf to the federal investigation into classified records at mara lago after the presidency. he's been inside this courthouse for a literal over an hour, and we do believe he's been with the grand jury for about an hour now. his attorney is here as well. no sign yet that he has finished and really, at this point, we don't know what he's going to say, and it's very likely the prosecutors right now do not know what he is likely telling the grand jury or will tell the grand jury. what we know is what they've been investigating, which is the potential mishandling of classified records at mara lago, and then even more crucially possible obstruction of justice after the federal government demanded that those records be turned back over to them, and they were not. corcoran was a key person involved in that response, drafting a statement being privy to the searches, even receiving justice department officials when they went down tomorrow, lago and tried to get back records and we also know what the prosecutors want to ask him. that's based on reporting that a wh

what was in all those documents at mara lago. we don't know what that's were taken to try to either return classified docs or withhold that and we don't know in the other probes to your point on what's going to happen in georgia. what might happen in manhattan today? but it's all circling. but these really important note unrelated cases they do not have to coordinate together. they are entirely separate entities can i know one other thing that i forgot to mention earlier, which is that? also the judge here has gotten ahold because he had to turn them over. i believe evan corcoran's handwritten notes and audio recordings. it's like verbal notes, so they also have all of that that is at stake here. we call those receipts. and they could be good receipts. they could be bad receipts actually exist. good for trump. problematic well, not necessarily. they could be indicating that there was some coordination between the attorney and the client to do something that's very it could also fully exonerate and say nothing to see here, folks.

fbi agents seized more than 100 classified documents from mara lago in august. they should give me immediately back everything that they've taken from because it's mine. it's mine. fbi agents seized more than 100 classified documents from our lago in august, and in november, the attorney general appointed special counsel jack smith, to investigate, among other things, whether trump obstructed the government's attempts to get back all the classified material still in his possession after he left office corker and crafted a statement in june 2022 claiming a diligent search had been conducted at mara lago, and that all classified documents had been returned. a source tells cnn prosecutors wanted to ask corcoran about that statement and a june phone call between him and trump that took place the same day as subpoena was issued for moral lago surveillance footage that showed boxes being moved out of a storage room. you still have the surveillance tape. is that correct? absolutely sean sources tell cnn prosecutors have made clear that they believe trump used corcoran t

this is the grand jury investigation into the potential is handling of classified records at mara lago and possibly obstruction of justice . we don't know if there will be charges that emanate from this, but what the justice department has done so far to get us to this point is really putting an emphasis on how close they believe they are to locking up this case, they believe that there was the advancing of a crime. it's quite significant, and evan corcoran really is the central person the central witness to the conversation. nations what was what donald trump was thinking and wanting to do, as the justice department was trying to get classified records that he had a mara lago back in their possession at the federal government and that they weren't just turning over all of the things that were there. caitlin, poland's cnn washington. police in new york scaled the side of a high rise building to prevent a crime suspect from jumping from the 31st floor. take a look at this. this is the moment when a police officer grappled from above and push the suspect back. inside a law enforcement so

the fbi search of mara lago finds more than 100 classified document records. poopsie listen , being a trump lawyer is a perilous job, even if you think you're doing everything right, you're probably going to get in trouble somewhere down the line, and the net result of that for trump is that he's running out of secret keepers. he's running out of people that cannot be subpoenaed cannot be deposed, who cannot tell what they know about him? um former business partners, people who ran his business, former attorneys family members who have been subpoenaed and deposed, so i don't know. it feels like a pretty perilous time to be to be trump. but then we've been saying that for a while. yeah look, i mean, the crazy thing is , if you're at home, you're like now which indictment? is this? like yeah, the we have so many simultaneous legal threats pointed at one person who is somehow still rising in the polls. that is the craziest thing to me is that he's actually more popular with republicans. now with this many threats against them. i don't know a single person in my l

well jeremy went to palm beach island where mara lago is so it's essentially donald trump's backyard and we spoke with voters about how they feel about this possibility of the former president being indicted and also about some of his language that he's been using on social media. here's what one republican woman who voted for donald trump told me what do you think about the rhetoric and the language he's using. um like i said, it's harsh. yeah, responsible. very do you think donald trump is getting railroaded? um no, i don't think so. you think it's a fair investigation? i think so. now she did vote for donald trump. but she also told me that if rhonda santis, florida's governor, jumps into the race in 2024 that she would be voting for rhonda santis, we also spoke to one man named herbert, who also voted for donald trump. and here's what he had to say. i think it's horrible doesn't destruction. i think he's got a big mouth. he should keep his big mouth shut. do you think he's being railroaded in new york? or you think it's a fair investigation of the hush money payments being railro

he was someone who helped search for these classified documents of mara lago. he's someone who attested to the government. we now know inaccurately that all of these classified documents had been turned over. so obviously, prosecutors really, really want his testimony. the trump team was very quick to appeal this decision they took to the appeals court and what we saw last night. somewhat unprecedented. it was the appeals court essentially saying , okay, we are going to weigh in on whether this essentially should be put on pause whether corcoran's testimony should be put on pause, prosecutors had overnight to file trump's team had overnight to file everyone managed to get their filings in and now we are waiting to see what the appeals court says about this if they decide to pause even corcoran's testimony or if they say it can go forward again. this is really far into the progression of the classified documents case and could be potentially one of the last witnesses that the government needs to you're from at a minimum, he's a key witness . as i pointed out, he

as of course, when the fbi showed up at mara lago in june before that search warrant was executed.corcoran played a role in drafting that statement about the search of classified documents. he was the one who was on the receiving end of those subpoenas that they got. it was dealing with the justice department in that regard, so i think they have major questions on that front when it comes to this, but then when you step back and look at it, yes, you're right. the broader context of all the level investigations into him. he's the most vocal right now, what's happening in manhattan? but as you've heard from legal experts , they believe potentially the documents now with evan corcoran , testifying january 6th, georgia or other major ones that are all you know, if they're not high on the radar, they certainly should be. mckay you know, you mentioned there's been a very bad week for trump, largely because of the evan corcoran testimony. does it seem like the pace of the special counsel investigation documents and january 6th is quick quickening because his team is really notching some c

that drafted the statement back over the summer that said a diligent search had been conducted at mara lago when it came to the classified material that was signed by another attorney, obviously turned out not to be true, as we saw from the fbi search that was executed at mara lago. just weeks later, when a trove of sensitive documents were found as part of that search warrant now moving on to the other investigation. this is the one that's happening here in new york. this is the one about story daniels. the grand jury is set to reconvene in the hush cake, the hush money case there, and, in a surprise move, the manhattan district attorney told them to stay home yesterday. they did not meet our cnn senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid has been very busy and it's tracking all of this. let's start. with the first one when it comes to trump's defense attorney who is now going to testify without being able to say, oh, i can't answer that because of attorney client privilege. this decision came so fast, all right, let's just start with that. this was a rocket docket. this really gives hi

initially, people were wanted to characterize the documents at mara lago, as maybe it was a whoops, you know, like the pence documents, the documents that have been found and vice president pence's house or the documents found in in president biden vice but then face president biden's house that was like maybe it was at nan and verdens. this is going to be testimony that suggests that it was intentional and the intentional retention of these documents is key to the crime. nancy gertner, john dean, i appreciate it. thank you. as john dean himself knows his former boss was the gold standard. if you can call it that, for presidents accused of serious crimes, he's only one of two who have even come close to being indicted. the other, of course, bill clinton. more in both now from cnn's randi kaye. five people have been arrested and charged with breaking into the headquarters of the democratic national committee in the middle of the night. 17th 1972 a break in at the watergate building, president richard nixon denied any involvement learned from news reports. of the watergate break in still

obviously when the fbi showed up in search mara lago, that was not the case, john, not the case. sara murray appreciate that important. update. elliot williams still with us at the table. so piercing attorney client privilege is a big deal. you have to reach a high bar of credibility there. you think it's even more consequential. we're talking about the notes here because what you're trying to did did was donald trump using his lawyers essentially to lie to the government about what he still had in his possession. people lie notes. don't lie the words that people write down, uh, in in the moment. are valid and useful record. and so yes, it is absolutely useful for them to turn over whatever paper or documentation he has at the time, but again like you, said, john, it's so profound because they have presented evidence that they believe that the former president committed a crime. and that's not the second time that's happened once in california and once here that is significant significant again. mr corporate must testify tomorrow we'll see what it's grand jury, but we'll see what

toward violence today, a big event in the mara lago documents case. evan corker in the trump attorney is under oath. special counsel prosecutors want to find out if the former president directed corcoran to lie or to aid in a bet a crime. corcoran's testimony is a big victory for the special counsel, and it follows two significant court wins. but in new york, another case we've been watching the manhattan d a has gone dark. the grand jury hearing evidence on the hush money case. there does not meet again until monday, and it is right now simply unclear whether prosecutors plan to present another witness or if alvin bragg will ask those grand jurors to return an indictment. the quiet is not so calm, though , due in no small part to donald trump being donald trump. he is writing profane rants on truth social in one posted after midnight. he smears the manhattan d a as a quote psychopath, and it is hard hard , very hard to dismiss these words, especially because we all know the history donald trump's words as anything but incitement, quote, potential dea

let's give you a live look out at the former president's mara lago estate.are hearing this is where he was when the news broke just a few hours ago. this is the first criminal case in us history. against the former president. good evening, everyone. i'm mike mibach cristina rendon, the district attorney in new york, has been investigating the former president for alleged hush money payments to an adult film star for more now we turn to ktvu political reporter greg lee, greg christina mike. this historic move comes after a year long investigation. and after a few weeks of grand jury watch this afternoon, manhattan district attorney alvin bragg confirmed mr trump has been indicted and says prosecutors are working to arrange his surrender. the indictment remains under seal and the felony charges mr trump will face have not been publicly released. what we do know is the case stems from his alleged role in hush money payments made to adult film star stormy daniels ahead of the 2016 election. legal experts believe the charges may be tied to falsification of busine

jack smith, and it's focused on the classified documents that were found at trump's residents at mara lagoand look his primary defense attorney in this case, evan corcoran, like you said. i had to appear before the grand jury where he was expected to answer questions. you know, judge already told corcoran that he could not withhold information about his communications with trump leading up to the fbi search of mara lago last summer. now, you know, we know the grand jury. in that case, wants to hear more about the trump team's interactions with the federal government as it relates to the process of trying to recover those classified documents. and so his testimony is significant in that classified documents case as well because he can give a window into that element of it. okay zack cohen. thanks so much. let's talk further about all of these cases now with michael zeldin. he is a former federal prosecutor and the host of the podcast that said with michael zeldin, michael. good to see you, so lots of cases involving trump in d. c a judge has ordered trump's former chief of staff and several

i think trump does have greater peril on the federal side from the mara lago documents case where there seems to be such strong evidence that he intentionally withheld these documents, maybe even deceived his own attorneys more than the federal january 6th crimes, but i have to disagree with my friend renato. the manhattan d. a investigation is just as serious. you have a potential felony there for falsifying financial records and for campaign prosecutions, campaign finance violations, and new york has prosecuted that before rihanna. there's nothing novel about it. the clarence norman case it's been done around the country as well. that is also a great jeopardy to donald trump. what renato, why do you think it's a lesser deal? what we're seeing in manhattan? a number of reasons. so first of all, um, what we're seeing in manhattan. i think based upon what's reported, because obviously we haven't seen the charges yet. we don't know exactly what they look like and what the evidence is based on what's been reported. brianna i think there are significant questions about that case. i disagree

those documents found at mara lago, trump's attorney, is now being ordered to testify tomorrow without attorney client privilege. that is, unless, of course, his side decides to appeal. so this means that even corker would have to testify. answer questions and hand over documents, including handwritten and verbal notes from the case. cnn's kaitlin poland's following this case for us do we know if the trump team or corcoran's going to try to appeal? do we expect this testimony to happen tomorrow? john and erica. it doesn't look like they're appealing. they're really running out of time, they would have had to get a court to put on hold this testimony in the turning over of documents, and that order from the appeals court came in yesterday and said no evan corker needs to show up to the grand jury when the justice department subpoenas in which we now know is for this friday and that he does need to turn over documents. there's been no response since then, so it doesn't look like they're going to be appealing. it looks like this is going forward. and this is a very hotly anticipated momen

the doj has evidence donald trump intentionally misled his own lawyers during the mara lago documents investigation. this is significant because it zeroes in on trump. the fed finds itself in kind of a no win situation here, and they do nothing. it looks like they're scared situation is stabilizing and the u. s banking system remains sound. heavy rain and hurricane force. wind gusts came ashore with the latest atmospheric river to impact the state of california. my from london. this is cnn newsroom. with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is wednesday, march 22nd am here in london. for a, um in washington and new york, where donald trump's mounting legal troubles have the former president and his team on edge as they wait for the indictment in manhattan, where now learning new details in the classified documents. investigation sources tell cnn the justice department has evidence that trump may have committed a crime and used his own attorney to cover it up cnn's evan perez reports. federal judge has ruled that former president donald trump used one of his defense attorneys in furtheranc

and turn over his notes to a grand jury tomorrow relating to those classified documents found at mara lago. meanwhile we're waiting for any next steps in the investigation into those hush money payments to stormy daniels. the house judiciary committee wants to investigate the d a. in that case, alvin bragg, bragg says that would violate new york law also, why was this grieving father pinned to the ground by capitol police today? you're about to see parkland parent, manuel oliver, whose son joaquin, was shot to death in his high school. don't even touch you to make a second. i'm going to. manuel and patricia oliver are here tonight to explain what happened and we have more gwyneth paltrow news. she's expected to take the stand tomorrow in the trial about her skiing accident. we'll tell you about the piece of missing evidence revealed in court today . okay, but let's start with today's developments into the various trump investigations. let's bring in national security expert juliette kayyem. rolling stone writer slash rabbi jay michaelson. dispatch editor in chief and dog lover jonah goldbe

what happened with the classified records kept at mara lago. after trump left the presidency. he was ordered by the federal appeals court in washington to testify to the grand jury investigating that that is a major step forward in the special counsel investigation. looking at that issue, he also was ordered to turn over documents to the grand jury investigation, and this is the type of information that prosecutors believe could really potentially make or break their their case. we know that they have argued to the judges that they have been before that these things that he has that he knows, and the notes that he has could show donald trump himself trying to commit a crime. jake alright, kaylin plants thanks so much. let's discuss all of this with deadly tony. he's a former assistant, u. s attorney for the southern district of new york, also with us jennifer rogers, who's a former federal prosecutor, thanks to both of you for being here, ellie, let me start with you. let's start with the january 6th case in court today. so vice president. pence's team is expected to say that

one of donald trump's attorneys will testify today in the mara lago classified documents probe no longer being able to cite attorney client privilege for some critical questions. what do prosecutors want to ask him? plus the former president, also facing backlash? four get this calling the manhattan district attorney alvin bragg, a soros backed animal. among other things, more in this escalating rhetoric straight ahead. land sea air. the mercedes benz three pointed star was designed to symbolize the environments we travel. today we unite w with te elements that have always been at our core. every action counts . we are committed to building vehicles that contain an average of 40% recycled materials. repurposing waste, such as fishing nets. going all electric by 2030. land sea. care. join us on our journey to a more sustainable future. wow it' been 38 years since wwere here back then i could barely afford a hostile. i' glad we invested for the long term with vanguard and now we're back here again. no jobs, no kids, just us. and our advisors preparing us for what lies ahead. vanguard you'r

attorney was forced to testify before the grand jury investigating those classified documents found at mara lago. meanwhile a laundry list of trump's advisers have now been ordered to testify before the grand jury that's investigating january 6th. that includes mark meadows, donald trump's chief of staff. we've got much more on that. plus we paltrow taking the stand today she's being sued over a ski accident, which she described in graphic terms. i was skiing and two skis came between my skis, forcing my legs apart. and then there was a body pressing against me. and there was a very strange grunting noise, so my brain was trying to make sense of what was happening. we'll talk about that. also how many scientists does it take to unscrew an oreo? scientists at mit unscrewed more than 1000 oreos in their quest to get a cookie with delicious, creamy filling on both sides. they even built an oreo meter to help tonight, these scientists will share their earth shattering findings and explain why we need to know this and also stick around for the end of the show. we've got our friday night news quiz for

he is going to testify today before a grand jury in the mara lago classified documents probe and he will do so without the protection of attorney client privilege. first that we are getting new information about this deadly flare up of hostilities in syria overnight, president biden ordered retaliatory airstrikes after a drone attack killed a u. s contractor. five u. s. service members and another u. s contractor were also wounded. cnn's natasha bertrand is covering all this for us has the latest information now, natasha, what are u. s officials say? johnson. we're being told that that are suspected iranian drone that attacked a u. s based in syria and killed a u. s contractor and wounded several other service members. u. s service members was a one way suspected iranian attack drone that intentionally crashed into its target. we are told, of course, the us did retaliate. they targeted facilities in syria that the u. s believes were being used by iranian proxy groups in order to support those groups with munitions and intelligence secretary of defense lloyd austin saying that this strong

because in the search warrant to search , mara lago, doj said to a judge . we believe that evidence of obstruction and that's the crime obstruction of justice will be found at the premises. now, caitlin if you go to a judge and asked the judge to break through that privilege, you don't have to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt. that's it. trial. all you have to show is what's called a prima facie case, which means what one of these latin phrases that means on its face like it sounds like you just have to make sort of the base. of a showing. the other thing is, there are some situations where prosecutor can go to a judge and just say take our word for it. we have enough evidence here. you have to do more. you have to prove specific evidence to a judge. and so that's what doj did. last week they went to the district court, which ruled in their favor. they said yes, this judge said, yes, i find there's evidence of the crime fraud exception. and just yesterday, the court of appeals ruled 30 agreeing with the district court. so i want to talk about one big