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New signs Mar-a-Lago employee may be cooperating with DOJ

All In with Chris Hayes

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🗓️ 1 August 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Guests: Barbara McQuade, Dick Gregorie, Tamar Hallerman, Symone Sanders-Townsend, Ben Smith, Kate Kelly Tonight: New signs “Trump Employee 4” could be cooperating with DOJ in the classified documents case. Then, it was only earlier this year that DeSantis was tied with Trump for the Republican nomination in polls. So what happened? The latest on the implosion of Diet Trump. Plus, why Georgia investigators could be the next to indict the former president. And she was a long time Democrat who ran on abortion rights. So why did she suddenly flip parties and throw North Carolina politics into chaos?

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0:00.0

Good evening from Washington, I'm Eddie Hassan in for Chris Hayes. Donald Trump could end

0:10.2

up behind bars next year for conspiracy to obstruct justice. And if he does, it may very

0:15.4

well be because of new testimony by someone identified by the Justice Department only

0:20.3

as Trump employee for. Now that we've had all of the weekend to digest the new superseding

0:26.8

indictment of Donald Trump from DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith and the classified documents

0:32.2

case, employee falls involvement seems particularly notable. According to the indictment, he played

0:38.0

a key role in what sure appears to be a pressure campaign from Trump and his co-defendants,

0:43.5

Valle, Walt Nutter and Mar-a-Lago, property manager Coloss de Oliveira, to delete security

0:49.4

footage from the club after it was subpoenaed by prosecutors. And now it sure seems like

0:55.1

employee number four could be talking. It turns out he is an IT worker from Mar-a-Lago

1:00.0

named Yussel Taveras. According to one new report, Taveras himself received a target letter

1:05.5

from the Department of Justice after Trump was in first indicted in Florida. But Taveras

1:09.9

himself has not yet been indicted. To be clear, as of now, we do not know if Taveras

1:15.8

is formally cooperating with Jack Smith's office. That said, as the Washington Post reports,

1:21.6

quote, Taveras offered information implicating all three defendants in an alleged conspiracy

1:26.1

to cover up evidence. And we also know that following Trump's indictment, Taveras switched

1:30.7

lawyers. He was previously represented by the same lawyer representing Trump's co-defendant,

1:35.7

Walt Nutter. As the post-report, quote, once Taveras' position put him, potentially odds

1:40.8

with Nutter's, defense, a judge reviewed the issue. A second lawyer not paid by the pack

1:46.3

by Trump's pack was brought in to provide legal advice to Taveras who then spoke to

1:51.0

investigators. As my MSNBC colleague, Katie Fang, emphasizes, it was only after Taveras

1:57.0

switched lawyers that he agreed to speak with investigators who wanted to know about

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