Trump criminal probes intensify
The Beat with Ari Melber
Ari Melber, MS NOW
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🗓️ 23 May 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the beat. I'm Katie Fang in for Ari Melber. We're learning today that Trump's |
| 0:05.9 | lawyer has receipts and that special counsel, Jack Smith, has them too. |
| 0:10.8 | The Guardian reporting Trump's lawyer, Evan Corcoran, warned Trump about retaining classified |
| 0:15.3 | documents, which could be significant in the criminal probe. |
| 0:18.6 | Corcoran memorializing the warning in roughly 50 pages of notes described to the Guardian |
| 0:23.8 | by three people with knowledge of their contents. The notes being produced to a federal |
| 0:28.8 | grand jury after an appeal score allowed the attorney client and work product privileges |
| 0:34.4 | between Corcoran and Trump to be pierced because judges believed Trump might have used Corcoran's |
| 0:39.3 | legal advice in furtherance of a crime. The Guardian also reporting prosecutors have fixated |
| 0:45.2 | on Trump's valet, Walt Nauta. After he told the DOJ, Trump told him to move boxes out |
| 0:52.0 | of the storage room before and after the subpoena. That does not look good for Trump. Meanwhile, |
| 1:00.4 | Trump's legal team is thinning out. One of his top lawyers, Tim Pallatory, resigning, |
| 1:06.1 | blaming in-fighting amongst Trump's lawyers and citing problems with one lawyer in particular, |
| 1:12.5 | Boris Epstein. Epstein is particularly close to Trump, reportedly talking to the former |
| 1:18.0 | president multiple times a day. Pallatory saying interference from Epstein made his job just |
| 1:24.1 | too difficult. There are certain individuals that made defending the president much harder |
| 1:31.1 | than they needed to be. Boris Epstein, who had really done everything he could to try |
| 1:35.8 | to block us, to prevent us from doing what we could to defend the president. He served |
| 1:42.4 | as kind of a filter to prevent us from getting information to the client and getting information |
| 1:48.8 | from the client. Joining us now is Hugo Golo, excuse me, and the Marlowe |
| 1:54.4 | Godokman's probe is not the only entaglement keeping Trump on his toes. The New York Times |
| 1:59.8 | reporting E. Jean Carroll, who recently won $5 million in damages from Trump for civil |
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