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Deadline: White House

“Efforts to obstruct justice”

Deadline: White House

MSNBC

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

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Nicolle Wallace is joined by Carol Leonnig, Melissa Murray, Andrew Weissmann, Katie Phang, Michael Steele, Mini Timmaraju, Jocelyn Benson, Andrew Weissmann, Ian Bassin, Vaughn Hillyard, and Igor Novikov.

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0:00.0

Hi everyone it's 4 o'clock in New York we're going to keep an eye on

0:10.2

that hearing in the Fulton County election interference case against Donald Trump

0:13.9

and his allies. It's currently in a break. The divorce attorney for lead

0:18.2

prosecutor Nathan Wade is on the stand testifying. Our questions raised by Trump and his co-defendants about the personal

0:25.3

relationship between Wade and District Attorney Fani Willis.

0:28.6

Notably, when their relationship started, it is a question that of course has zero zilch nothing to do with any of the facts of the case against Donald J Trump.

0:39.6

We will explain why the hearing is even happening late in the broadcast, but we start with Special

0:43.6

Council Jack Smith taking a sledgehammer to one of the most brazen arguments being raised by

0:49.5

the ex president in any of his multiple legal travails.

0:53.4

Over the course of just 12 pages, prosecutors

0:56.4

pick apart the argument that Trump was somehow unfairly

1:00.8

charged in the classified documents case.

1:04.0

They say that although there have been many government officials who have possessed classified

1:08.4

documents after the ends of their terms in office, often inadvertently,

1:13.0

sometimes negligently, and very occasionally willfully.

1:17.8

There has never been a case in American history

1:21.3

in which a former official has engaged in conduct

1:24.0

remotely similar to Trump. He intentionally took possession of a vast

1:29.0

trove of some of the nation's most sensitive documents, documents so sensitive that they were presented to the president and he stored

1:37.4

them in unsecure locations at his heavily trafficked social club.

1:40.8

But Trump did not stop there. The Special Counsel notes,

1:43.9

Trump, quote, delayed, obfuscated, and dissembled

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