Report: Trump lawyers turning on each other

The Beat with Ari Melber

Ari Melber, MS NOW

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🗓️ 30 May 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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MSNBC’s Katie Phang hosts “The Beat” on Tuesday, May 30, and reports on Trump’s legal battles, the debt limit deal, and Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign. Zach Despart, Andrew Warren, Molly Jong-Fast, David Jolly, and Hugo Lowell join. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Beat I Am Katie Fang in for Ari Melber.
0:04.8	We start today with damning new details in the Trump classified documents probe.
0:09.4	The Guardians reporting Trump's lawyer was quote, waved off from searching Trump's office
0:14.4	for records, which was later where the FBI found the most sensitive materials.
0:20.7	Noting several Trump aids told this lawyer Evan Corcoran to search the storage room where
0:25.4	he found 38 classified documents.
0:27.8	Corcoran then asked whether he should search anywhere else, but was steered away.
0:32.5	I want to note that a Trump spokesperson denied that allegation, but we already know.
0:37.0	Special counsel Jack Smith has been eyeing obstruction charges, and that does not look good for Donald Trump.
0:43.1	New reports also depicting chaos on Trump's legal team.
0:46.2	The Daily Beast reporting Trump's lawyers are starting to wonder if there might be a snitch.
0:50.4	When does that snitches get stitches?
0:51.9	One member of his legal team saying quote, there's a lot of lawyers and a lot of jealousy.
0:57.0	I wrote a piece on this for MSFBC.com and I pointed out quote, with Trump,
1:01.1	you have the perfect storm of infighting lawyers jostling for pole position and a client
1:05.4	who's prone to embracing the microphone and never meeting a camera he didn't love.
1:09.6	I concluded quote, it's a recipe for an attorney client disaster.
1:14.1	Trump is also reportedly eyeing revenge.
1:16.1	Rolling stone reporting Trump's team is quote scrambling to unmask the feds investigating him.
1:20.8	Trump telling his allies if he becomes president again, he wants the DOJ to quote quickly
1:25.1	and immediately purge the FBI and DOJ of the officials who led these probes.
1:30.3	Joining me now is Hugo Lowell, political investigations reporter for The Guardian.
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