“A high stakes clash”

Deadline: White House

MSNBC

News, Donald Trump, Daily News, The White House, Nicolle Wallace, Politics, Nbc News, Washington Dc, Msnbc, Government

4.6 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2023

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Alicia Menendez – in for Nicolle Wallace – discusses the multiple criminal probes plaguing the twice impeached ex-president as he faces legal hits in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation, the breakthroughs in Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s hush money case even as the grand jury postpones meeting, new combative comments from potential Republican primary opponent Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, signs of skepticism from a judge in Fox News’ case as they battle Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation suit, and more. Joined by: Jackie Alemany, David Jolly, Andrew Weissmann, Ashley Parker, Peter Baker, Tim Miller, Angelo Carusone, and Angela Vasquez-Girouwall

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, it is 4 o'clock in New York, I'm Alicia Menendez, in for Nicole Wallace.
0:11.6	There is no shortage of news today in the multiple complex and unprecedented criminal
0:16.7	probes examining Donald Trump's conduct before, during, and after he was president of the
0:22.2	United States.
0:23.2	Let's start with the news in the Manhattan DA's probe into hush money payments made to
0:27.2	adult film star Stormy Daniels.
0:29.6	And BC News has confirmed that the grand jury that has been investigating the payments
0:34.0	did not meet today.
0:35.5	It could reconvene tomorrow.
0:37.6	There are also questions surrounding one of Donald Trump's attorneys today.
0:40.5	We're going to get to all of that later in the program.
0:43.4	But we turn to a high stakes clash between Donald Trump's attorneys and the Justice Department
0:48.0	that is unfolding right now involving a DC appeals court.
0:51.9	What happens there could have major consequences for the federal probe looking into Donald Trump's
0:57.0	handling of classified documents in some of the country's most sensitive intelligence
1:00.8	secrets at his residence at Mar-a-Lago.
1:04.0	At the heart of this legal battle is Trump attorney Evan Corcoran.
1:07.6	Justice Department has been trying to get a federal judge to force Corcoran to break attorney
1:12.0	client privilege and testify before a grand jury about the work he's done for Trump.
1:17.2	His testimony could be key to one of the biggest issues in the probe, because the New York
1:21.8	Times notes, among the subjects that the Justice Department has been examining since last
1:26.0	year, is whether Mr. Trump or his associates obstructed justice by failing to comply with
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