“The smoking gun witness”

Deadline: White House

Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW

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4.5 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2023

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Nicolle Wallace discusses new reporting that the ex-president’s lawyer may have been told not to search the Mar-a-Lago office where classified documents were later found, the latest sentences for some of the most infamous January 6th Capitol rioters while the U.S. remains at a heightened threat level for domestic terrorism, Fox News’s next defamation lawsuit in the continued fallout of their election lies, Republicans’ politicization of the U.S. military that may impact readiness, and more. Joined by: Carol Leonnig, Harry Litman, Basil Smikle, James Comey, Charlie Sykes, Michael Schmidt, Joyce Vance, Donny Deutsch, Amy McGrath, Jeremy Bash, and Paul Rieckhoff.

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. It's Forkarkin New York. Today there is exclusive brand new reporting that
0:12.5	shows just why Trump attorney Evan Corcoran could be the smoking gun witness in mounting
0:18.6	any criminal obstruction of justice case against Donald J. Trump. Evidence emerging today
0:23.9	in the Guardian that in the crucial time between DOJ's subpoena in May of last year and
0:29.6	the meeting between investigators and Trump's legal team the following month, Trump or his
0:34.4	aides might have hidden classified documents from Donald Trump's own defense attorney.
0:39.9	From that stunning new reporting, quote, Donald Trump's lawyer told associates that he was
0:44.2	waived off from searching the former president's office, where the FBI later found the most
0:50.0	sensitive materials anywhere on the property. That lawyer Evan Corcoran recounted that several
0:55.3	Trump aides had told him to search the storage room because that was where all the materials
1:01.0	that had been brought from the White House at the end of Trump's presidency ended up being
1:05.2	deposited. Corcoran found 38 classified documents in the storage room. He then asked whether
1:11.4	he should search anywhere else, but was steered away. He told associates, according to
1:16.4	an inventory unsealed by a federal judge last year, the FBI found 27 classified documents
1:22.6	along with dozens of empty folders with classification markings on them in Donald Trump's office during
1:29.3	that court authorized search of Mar-a-Lago back in August. You might be familiar with this photo,
1:34.3	showing some of the classified documents that were found in a container in Trump's office.
1:39.3	Markings suggest that they contain incredibly sensitive material, including intelligence obtained
1:45.4	by human sources. So here's why it matters. The Corcoran never searched Trump's office and is saying
1:51.5	that someone told him not to. Again, from the Guardian. Quote, Corcoran's previously unreported account
1:57.2	as relayed to the Guardian by two people familiar with the matter. Suggest he was materially misled
2:03.6	as the special counsel, Jack Smith, examines whether his incomplete search was actually
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