“A persistent and lethal threat”

Deadline: White House

Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW

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🗓️ 25 May 2023

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Nicolle Wallace discusses newly reported details on the days leading up to the day DOJ collected documents from Mar-a-Lago that could indicate obstruction, the ex-president’s financial ties to Saudi Arabia, an extraordinary sentence for Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes who is the first to be convicted of seditious conspiracy for his role in January 6th, the escalating attacks on reproductive freedoms as there is fallout for doctors, and more. Joined by: Peter Strzok, Harry Litman, Betsy Woodruff Swan, John Brennan, Paul Rieckhoff, Rick Stengel, Ryan Reilly, Mary McCord, Mini Timmaraju, and Cecile Richards.

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. It's Forecarcourt in New York. There's brand new reporting today on previously
0:10.8	unknown evidence that has been developed by the Justice Department in the classified
0:15.1	documents case. Evidence that paints a potentially damning portrait of efforts by the ex-president
0:21.3	to obstruct the Justice Department's push to retrieve important and sensitive national
0:26.4	security documents. From that Washington Post report, quote, two of Donald Trump's employees
0:31.7	moved boxes of papers the day before FBI agents and a prosecutor visited the former president's
0:38.3	floor at home to retrieve classified documents in response to a subpoena timing that investigators
0:44.4	have come to view as suspicious and an indication of possible obstruction, according to people
0:49.9	familiar with the matter. Trump and his A's also allegedly carried out a dress rehearsal
0:55.9	from moving sensitive papers even before his office received the May 2022 subpoena. That
1:01.8	is according to people familiar with the matter, who spoke anonymously to describe a sensitive
1:06.8	ongoing investigation. The Washington Post also has new details on a question that has
1:11.4	loomed over the entire investigation. What did Donald Trump do with his trove of classified
1:17.3	documents? From that reporting, quote, prosecutors in addition have gathered evidence indicating
1:22.6	that Trump at times kept classified documents in his office in a place where they were visible
1:28.7	and sometimes showed them to others these people said. But the revelations that Trump staff
1:33.6	held a so-called dress rehearsal for moving papers and the moving of boxes suspiciously,
1:40.6	just one day before the FBI arrived, gives us a glimpse into the strength of a potential
1:45.9	obstruction case against Donald Trump. This is a special counsel Jack Smith barrels toward
1:51.4	a decision on charges. Bloomberg is reporting this, special counsel Jack Smith is wrapping
1:57.1	up his investigation into former President Trump's refusal to return classified documents after
2:03.0	his election defeat and is poised to announce possible criminal charges in the days or weeks
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