leading off hour discussion tonight, andrew weissmann, he he's a former -- is professor and practice at nyu law school and an msnbc legal analyst. also with us ben rhodes, former deputy national security advisor to president obama and an msnbc political analyst. he is the author of after the fall. being american in the world we have made. andrew, your assessment of what we have learned in this hearing today about the possible release of the affidavit and what you expect a week from now. >> i think the judge made the right call here. i think the weakness in the government's position was that they only addressed in a footnote, the issue of redaction. and they told the judge that their opinion, a redacted version of the affidavit would the not helpful to the public, we would be virtually meaningless. but of course, this judge has actually seen the fully unredacted affidavit. so he was able to sort of take a look at that and presumably came to the conclusion that the there are pieces of it that wouldn't harm national security, wouldn't harm the ongoing criminalthose are categories hes st

leading off our discussion tonight is andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel, and former chief of the criminal division of the eastern district of new york. and professor of practice at nyu law school. he is an msnbc legal analyst. also with us is bradley moss, a national security attorney. andrew, i want to ask you to pretend you are briefing donald trump on what his biggest problems are. but let's just go to your class, let's go to nyu law school class. and you are presenting to your class today, based on everything we've seen, just in today's revelations, what is that lead in all of this for you? >> i think the lead would be the thing that's coming up the fastest, which is the manhattan district attorney's office. it could be that in a few days, allen weisselberg, the chief financial officer of the trump organization, actually pleads guilty. the reason that is important for donald trump is the trump organization is scheduled for trial in october. once allen weisselberg pleads guilty, it is over for the trump organization. he -- the crimes he committed, imputed to the trump o

leading off hour discussion tonight, andrew weissmann, he is professor and practice at nyu law school and an msnbc legal analyst. also with us ben rhodes, former deputy national security to president obama, and edison bc political correspondent. he is the author of after the fall. andrew, your assessment of what we have learned in this hearing today about the possible release of the affidavit and what you expect a week from now. >> i think the judge made the right call here. i think the weakness in the government's position was that they only addressed the footnote, the issue of redaction. and they told the judge that their opinion, it redacted version of the affidavit would-be not helpful to the public, we would be virtually meaningless. but of course, this judge has actually seen the fully unredacted affidavit. so he was able to sort of take a look at bat and presumably came to the conclusion that the pieces of it that wouldn't harm national security, wouldn't harm -- beyond the criminal investigation, and when identify witnesses. those are categories that i think he's still going t

andrew weissmann do you want to add anything to this defense advanced by donald trump tonight? >> yeah, i just want to reiterate and stress something that neal said which is defense number one that we heard was that these documents were planted. in other words, he didn't know anything about them, this was the fbi just surreptitiously going in there and putting the documents there and they did it without anyone being present even though we now know that his lawyers were president. but defense number two is, i declassified the documents. those are fundamentally inconsistent. so now it's not planted at all. his second defense, which is these are declassified, is actually not a legal defense. it is as a relevant to the charges. so we now have a person who by all accounts, has committed a serious felony. a serious felonies plural. there is precedent for people who have done lesser crimes being charged. and remember, merrick garland is as somebody who was a former judge is going to be looking at precedent. and this hard to see what the defense is here, because we have heard to comple

and i very much agree with andrew weissmann, the government's insistence on grabing all this information could have been designed, principally, to, as andrew put it, repatriated, which is a fancy word of saying, get it back where it is safe, instead of where it is roaming around, and can be used by donald trump to get leverage, possibly dangle in front of people, it's unsafe that our national security is in danger. that doesn't mean that what they discovered in the course of this search and seizure is not proven to be useful for proving all kinds of crimes, including seditious conspiracy, fomenting an insurrection, defrauding the united states, obstructing a proceeding in congress. whatever evidence they find in plain sight, as long as they're executing the warrant, and not looking in his say for an elephant, looking in places, you know, where something couldn't be found. anything they find can be used to prosecute him for whatever crimes are involved. but this particular search might simply have been designed to protect the united states of america. >> harvard law professor laurence tri

>> andrew weissmann is back with us, can you answer donald trump's question? he is asking if you are innocent, why do you take the fifth amendment? >> so, i think it's very important to remember that the fifth amendment and the assertion of the fifth amendment is a constitutional right that we all enjoy, and it cannot be used against you in a criminal case. meaning that we can't sit around and say oh the person must be guilty because they asserted the fifth amendment. that would be the case if we were all jurors and a criminal case. but we are not. we are public citizens, and in fact, in a civil case, the assertion of a fifth amendment can be used against you. and in fact, the very definition of asserting the fifth amendment is that, it has to be the case that a truthful answer to the question would tend to incriminate you. that is the standard for assurting the fifth amendment. so by definition, it is a sign of guilt. it's just that under the law, it cannot be used in a criminal case. so the president is right when he says that many people, i wouldn't say all

andrew weissmann, former federal prosecutor who's been invaluable in bringing to us the prosecutors view of these kinds of bits of information and how you put them together. i have a feeling he's gonna put a lot of this together for us. >> i am on the edge of my seat. >> thank you rachel. mr. trump went through the boxes himself. that is one of the legally devastating lines in a new york times breaking news report tonight under the headline, trump had more than 300 classified documents at mar-a-lago. donald trump's life gets worse every day and tonight his life got much worse with the revelation in the new york times that donald trump himself went through all of the boxes of documents that he was illegally possessing and concealing at his florida home. and this is the kind of reporting that indicates that donald trump's legal life is going to get much, much worse as this story keeps moving forward. a team of four investigative reporters for the new york times report that the government has retrieved more than 300 classified documents from donald trump's florida home in three different re

andrew weiss >> andrew weissmann we have reporting in the washington post saying that in june the trump lawyers met with jay brat, the chief of the counter intelligence an export control section of the justice department, they had this meeting with what was there, the meeting is not a very conclusive meeting. what is your reading of that meeting? >> jay brad is someone i know very well he works in the national security division and he's a career official. he has been there serving under various administrations and as dan said i think this was an effort by the justice department to see if they can work this out and essentially regain possession of documents, government documents whether classified are not classified that don't belong to donald trump. clearly something broke down. i agree with dan that there has to be evidence that was presented to merrick garland that justified his saying, you know what, we need to do this by search warrant. we can no longer negotiate, we can no longer count on a subpoena working, we have to actually go in there and get the documents. and having worked i

andrew weissmann do you want to add anything to this defense advanced by donald trump tonight? >> yeah i just want to reiterate and sort of stress something that neal said which is defense number one that we heard was that these documents were planted. in other words, he didn't know anything about them, this was the fbi just surreptitiously going in there and putting the documents there and they did it without anyone being president, even though we now know his lawyers were present. but defense number two is, i declassified the documents. those are fundamentally inconsistent. so now it's not planted at all. his second defense, which is these are the is actually not a legal defense. it is as a relevant to the charges. so we now have a person who by all accounts, has committed a serious felony. a serious felonies plural. there is precedent for people who have done lesser crimes being charged. and remember, merrick garland is somebody who was a former judge is going to be looking at precedent. and this hard to see what the defense is here, because we have heard to completely incon

right, andrew weissmann. thank you very much. >> thank. you >> coming, up why a trump appointed judges calling out donald trump's attempt to slow down the investigation of the classified documents. but first, it is primary night america. polls are close to florida and oklahoma. we have a bunch of votes from florida, where they count the votes very fast. new yorkers have about 41 minutes to get to the polling place, steve kornacki joins within latest updates after this. don't go anywhere. it's election night in the three states, new york, florida in oklahoma. new yorkers, you have a little bit more and a half hour to cast your ballot. polls close at 9 pm eastern. it's been a low turnout, so please go to that if you have to. i'm there for a big house election tonight new york plus a special election for congressional see in the 19 district. a lot of people are watching. it's gonna be a bellwether for how people will be voting in the midterms. pulls in florida and oklahoma already. closed -- were starting to get some results. msnbc national p

andrew weissmann, let me begin with you and where the search warrant case stands this week. wyatt donald trump when apparently to shop for a judge other than the judge who's been handling the case to try to get a special master appointed to review these documents? what will develop this week as that judge has ordered so far? >> let me turn to what to expect because i think tomorrow could be a big day. we know from attorney general merrick garland that he has said that the department of justice has as its policy is going to speak through its filings. even in his press conference, we got very little information and we basically last friday, everyone in the press and the public that's following along were waiting for the redacted affidavit to be unsealed. tomorrow is an opportunity for the department to show a little leg. to take your intro about winston churchill, there are a lot of lies and misstatements and omissions in the filing, actually the filings plural that have been made by trump through his counsel. the court has ordered the department to respond to the filing, the

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andrew weissmann, let me begin with you and where the search warrant case stands this week. wyatt donald trump when apparently to shop for a judge other than the judge who's been handling the case to try to get a special master appointed to review these documents? what will develop this week as that george judges ordered so far? >> let me turn to what to expect because i think tomorrow could be a big day. we know from attorney general merrick garland that he has said that the department of justice has is its policy is going to speak through its filings. even in his press conference, we got very little information and we basically last friday everyone in the press and the public that's following a lot we're waiting for the redacted affidavit to be unsealed. tomorrow is an opportunity for the department to show a little leg. to take your intro about winston churchill, there are a lot of lies and misstatements and omissions in the filing, actually the filings plural that have been made by trump threw him and his counsel. the court has ordered the department to respond to the fi

andrew weissmann looks happy with that. he has a big smile on his face. justice delayed is justice denied. let's get to it here and find out -- you call a bluff in poker you find out pretty quick what the outcome is and we'll find out quickly, one way or the other. katie, i want to ask you before we get to the reporting, andrew talked about the fact that "the new york times," a couple of journalistic institutions are just killing it on this story and advancing the ball very quickly before we had merrick garland come out today and knew that he was going to come out we thought we would spend a lot of time on the show going over how much more we know now than we knew 24 hours ago and now there's this news that's taken up some of that space, but before i get to you breaking the news about the times break the news, you breaking the news about the subpoena for the search warrant, and i want to ask you at this hour, at this minute what youio know about the deliberations, if anything, the deliberations inside the doj that played out on the course of this day that

andrew weissmann,, former federal prosecutor who's been invaluable in bringing to us the prosecutors view of these kinds of bits of information and how you put them together. i have a feeling he's gonna put a lot of this together for us. >> i am on the edge of my seat. >> thank you rachel. mr. trump went through the boxes himself. that is one of the legally devastating lines in a new york times breaking news report tonight under the headline, trump had more than 300 classified documents at mar-a-lago. donald trump's life gets worse every day and tonight his life got much worse with the revelation in the new york times that donald trump himself went through all of the boxes of documents that he was illegally possessing and concealing at his florida home. and this is the kind of reporting that indicates that donald trump's legal life is going to get much, much worse as the story keeps moving forward. a team of investigators for the new york times report that the government has retrieved more than 300 classified documents from donald trump's florida home in three different retrieval's f

i'll talk to nbc news legal analysts chuck rosenberg and andrew weissmann. >>> also, violent reaction -- >> subject armed. fired several shots at officers. >> a man apparently reacting to the fbi's search is killed by authorities after trying to attack the bureau's cincinnati office. will others be moved to violence? >>> and the midterms outlook, from the kansas abortion vote -- >> i hope we inspire other states when they get the opportunity to vote to really think about a woman's choice. >> -- to a string of successes for president biden. signs that the expected republican red wave may be weakening. joining me for insight and analysis are eugene robinson, amy walter, matthew continetti, betsy woodruff swan and michael beschloss. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >>> from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> good sunday morning. chuck todd is off today. even by donald trump's standards, it's been an extraordinary week. first came word of the fbi's search at mar-a-lago, for classified documents. whi

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andrew weissmann, as a former federal prosecutor let me begin with you. i want to begin with the kevin mccarthy statement. if you are in the justice department and in the attorney general's inner circle, what would you be saying to the attorney general tonight after reading kevin mccarthy statement which i will read now read and fall in which kevin mccarthy says -- i've seen enough. the department of justice is reaching a tolerable state of weaponized politicized and. when republicans take back the house, we will conduct immediate oversight of this department, follow facts and leave no stone unturned. attorney general garland, preserving documents and clear your calendar. andrew weissmann, what would you say to the attorney general about that? >> you keep your head down and keep doing the right thing. that is such a palpably false statement, the comment from mr. mccarthy that he is seen enough. one of the things that none of us has seen is the warrant an application to the court. it's very important to remember this was not a break-in, this was not a raid

i'll talk to nbc news legal analyst chuck rosenberg and andrew weissmann. also, violent reaction -- >> subject armed. >> a man apparently reacting to the fbi's search is killed by authorities after trying to attack the bureau's cincinnati office. will others be moved to violence? >>> and the midterms outlook, from the kansas abortion vote -- >> i hope we inspire other states when they get the opportunity to vote to really think about a woman's choice. >> -- to a string of successes for president biden. signs that the expected republican red wave may be weakening. joining me for insight and analysis are eugene robinson, amy walter, matthew continetti, betsy woodruff swan and michael beschloss. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >>> from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> good sunday morning. chuck todd is off today. even by donald trump's standards, it's been an extraordinary week. first came word of the fbi's search at mar-a-lago, for classified documents. while that pr

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what is your take on what andrew weissmann said? >> i agree to an extent. i think he would probably also agree that further investigation is necessary. because while we do have all the indicators that he has got the documents and he is not supposed to have them, and a lengthy timeline has gone by, where he was able asked to return them and refused -- but we have him acting through proxies along the way. we see lawyers involved and, i suppose, a potential defense here could be, i'm a busy, man i don't pay attention to these things, i love these things to my peeling feeling people. -- truth social will undermine that kind of defense. but i imagine that is why the justice department says this is an ongoing investigation, and that they are interviewing a significant number of civilian witnesses. i also think that this surveillance video could be very telling here. because if you find trump himself going through these documents or, as it has been reported, waiting around and showing off the letter from kim jong-un, then i think it is airtight. but i think that i

leading off our discussion tonight is bradley moss andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel, and former chief of the criminal division of the eastern district of new york. and professor of practice at and why you law school. he is an msnbc legal analyst. also with us is bradley moss, a national security attorney. andrew, i want to ask you to pretend you are briefing donald trump on what his biggest problems are. but let's just go to your class, let's go to nyu law school class. and you are presenting to your class today, based on everything we've seen, just in today's revelations, what is that lead in all of this for you? >> i think the league would be the thing that's coming up the fastest, which is the manhattan district attorney's office. it could be that in a few days, allen weisselberg, the chief financial officer of the trump organization, actually pleads guilty. the reason that is important for donald trump is the trump organization is scheduled for trial in october. once allen weisselberg pleads guilty, it is over for the trump organization. he, the crimes he committed, i

it's really unthinkable. >> jackie alemany, andrew weissmann, frank figliuzzi, and miles taylor. i'm grateful to all of you. president joe biden on his predecessor's claim that he declassified all of it and every last one of those documents that he brought with him to mar-a-lago after leaving washington and we'll bring that to you and we'll speak to the white house chief of staff ron klain. don't go anywhere. ron klain. don't go anywhere. the lows of bipolar depression can leave you down and in the dark. but what if you could begin to see the signs of hope all around you? what if you could let in the lyte? discover caplyta. caplyta is a once-daily pill, proven to deliver significant relief from bipolar depression. unlike some medicines that only treat bipolar i, caplyta treats both bipolar i and bipolar ii depression. and, in clinical trials, feelings of inner restlessness and weight gain were not common. caplyta can cause serious side effects. call your doctor about sudden mood changes, behaviors, or suicidal thoughts right away. antidepressants may increase these risks in young

so quite an unusual document. >> do you -- this calls for you to speculate, andrew weissmann and you have a firm approach from which to do so. do you believe these two men, knowing what they knew of the evidence -- ed, i think, met weekly or every other week with one of robert mueller's deputies, right? he knew everything that was happening. he knew the evidence being developed. i think he knew the witnesses that were end component the on and the incidents reported out and the tampering with witnesses and the threats to fire robert mueller. what do you think -- do you think he wrote this memo with steve engel out of his own volition or do you think bill barr asked for it? >> i don't know the answer to that, nicole. there's ney question that the conclusion is certainly one that i think all three democrat knew they were going to conclude and as i said, if they were looking at this objectively and not trying to come to a certain conclusion they would have asked the special counsel to do it. that was the whole reason was to have the idea that this was going to be removed from the sort of

for andrew weissmann and so on. i'm very, very extraordinarily disappointed in merrick garland and even more so, because he continues to make the statements like he did in the abandoned case with equal application of the law. that is nonsense. we know that the example that it distinguished by, and it is reprehensible, frankly. but the bubble, bottom line is we are not just speculating about possible conduct in the past, we have the fisa warrant situation and know that misrepresentation was made to the most secretive and intrusive process in the country of the fisa court. so the american people deserve transparency here. and we have to have it. >> laura: they can't hide behind the broad language, i see right through that, mike. and we should point out that the national archives officials who notified the doj and the trump probe, they declined to do the same thing over the clinton emails, thousands and thousands of clinton emails, so said that he did not believe it was appropriate or necessary to notify the doj about

andrew weissmann clearly had an agenda as we saw during stage get trump, i track a lot of this back quite frankly to jerry nadler saying during the trump administration, we can't trust the american voters. so these leaks are cheating the american public. they are begging for donald trump. they are worse for the american people. >> laura: now another follow-up article in "the washington post" said that there had been linked 18 months of efforts by the national archives to various email correspondence again, magically ending up in "the washington post" cited that we cannot get the record back and they belong in the archives and yet the navalny for whatever reason was not delivering, what about that tonight? >> to my knowledge the federal librarians have never made this efforts with prior presidents and indeed as i mentioned yesterday on your show, the presidential record act does not specify any time, place, or manner of a president whose records are released. he is supposed to do it at some point but he gets go through them and archive them and he can prevent them from being out to p

they next went on a two year partisan witch hunt led by devout democrat andrew weissmann and staff with clinton daughters come i remember how one of those people accountable, he made no institutional changes, no reforms, and this is where we are today. that's why people don't trust the one great law institution and that's the fbi. the justice department by the way just labeled concerned parents speaking out at school board in excess potential domestic terrorists that need to be investigated at request of the democrats. they have seemingly endured the doesn't of attacks on pro-life pregnancy centers. the prosecute violent far left rioters who attacked federal buildings in the summer of 2020. the courthouse in portland, dozens injured and americans dead. nothing to stop the doxxing and harassment of supreme court justices even though we have a law against that prohibiting that. they barely yelled when chuck schumer threatens the same justices by name on the steps of the u.s. supreme court. they couldn't care less when kamala harris promoted the bail fund to get rioters out of jail and tol

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joining us now, nbc news and msnbc legal analyst andrew weissmann who is also a former general counsel for the fbi and served as lead prosecutor in the mueller special council office. also with us, congressional correspondent for "the new york times," annie carney. good to have you both with us this morning. we appreciate you joining us. >> so andrew, i'd love to get your insight on what is happening with the doj right now. you obviously, like so many people, frustrated at the information that you gathered during the mueller investigation. but that was not acted upon. do you think the doj's moving in the right direction and do they -- i'll ask you the question we've been asking everybody, do they have a responsible to be transparent and talk about why they raided donald trump, according to donald trump, raided, why they went in and conducted a search, a legal search at the time they did? >> you know, i think it is a tough question. the issue of whether and how much merrick garland should be saying, there is no question he has the legal authority to do that. but there are generally good

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now i know the answer to that question who is leading a civil andrew weissmann spent investigation into the trump years in the organization business department of justice for working practices. as an assistant in a statement today, trump u.s. attorney to wrote quote, i once asked, if leading the fbi's you're innocent, why are you investigation taking the fifth amendment? and ron now i know the answer to that serving as general question. counsel to the fbi andrew weizmann spent years was recently he served as a and the department of justice lead prosecutor robert mueller for working as an assistant u. s.'s special counsel investigation attorney to leading the fbi's into russia and the trump campaign investigation into amazon is also the author of where law ends and serving as general counsel inside the mueller investigation and he joins me now andrew to the fbi. apparently the only question that trump answer today most recently his serve as a was his name what are the implications of him taking the fifth since this lead prosecutor in robert is a civil case cannot then be used against him

i want to bring in, now, the great andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel, and former senior member of special counsel robert mueller's investigation. he was, also, you could see him -- there he is. head of the doj's enron task force, which prosecuted arthur andersen tax form for, you guessed, it department of justice. andrew, thanks for joining me. >> nice to be here, it's obscene a photo from that many years ago. >> it's all that we're talking about department of justice and paper trading all over again. >> absolutely. one of the things that is really interesting is that the work that service actually did is really coming home now, because the law that was changed and fixed, which is 15 19, which is the law that everybody was surprised to see in the search warrant, actually fixed some of the problems that we had in prosecuting our commander. the main one, that i think is relevant here is arthur andersen, he was this anomaly and ambiguity about whether there had to be an official proceeding, at the time of the obstruction. and there is an issue there about whether the sec actually

andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel, professor at nyu law. thanks so much for joining me tonight. >> you're welcome. >> and we have one more story ahead here tonight. michigan governor gretchen whitmer's legal strategy pays off in her battle to protect abortion rights. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ with downy infusions, let the scent set the mood. ♪ feel the difference with downy. that little leaf brought this old photo to life, i can finally put some names to those faces... it's like i'm back there at 39 elmhurst with all these folks. ancestry can guide you to family discoveries in the 1950 census. it■s hard eating healthy. unless you happen to be a dog. new astepro allergy. now available without a prescription. astepro is the first and only 24-hour steroid free spray. while other allergy sprays take hours astepro starts working in 30 minutes. so you can... astepro and go. panera chefs have crafted a masterpiece... succulent, seared chicken... a secret aioli... clean ingredients... in a buttery brioche roll. made fresh, to lea

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joining us now is andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel and former senior member of some special counsel robert mueller's investigative team. he's a professor at and why you law. andrew, thank you for being with us on this friday night. >> nice to be here, alex. >> so, does lindsey graham stand a chance here? or is this just running out the clock as long as he can? >> well, i think he doesn't stand a chance, and i don't think he's gonna be able to run the clock anymore. you know, he lost twice this week. the district judge ruled against him earlier this week, and the decision today was her saying, i am not granting a stay pending appeal, because this is so frivolous. your claim that you have no information that would be unprotected by the speech and debate clause is laughable. the claim that he made that this is protected under sovereign immunity, meaning because he is a federal government official, he should not have to respond to a state grand jury, that's sort of an incredible claim for a sitting senator to make and it was rightly rejected. i don't anticipate -- will grunt a s

i want to bring in ryan riley, and former fbi general counsel andrew weissmann. so ryan, first, any significance about the idea that passports may have been taken, what that may say to you about where this case goes? and what is next as it relates to this search at mar-a-lago? >> yeah, i want to be careful about this one, because that's something we've only heard from the president so far, but i think andrew might be best to weigh in on the potential significance of that there. but it is significant, just as a fact that this idea that the president's passports were taken by the fbi. i think there's obviously different interests on capitol hill in terms of getting more information about the damage assessment, and then the communication side. i would point out that this has been a very by the book investigation in terms of the fbi side. remember that there was that initial meeting with trump in early june after the subpoena in late may, and all of the while that information held. the fact that the former president of the united states was subpoenaed by a grand jury

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thank you all, mark put, on andrew weissmann, i appreciate you as staying up late with us. frank and barb do not go anywhere, we've got more to cover when we come back. more on the search from mar-a-lago from two people who have inside knowledge of the former president and how he's likely taking a news tonight. and later, democrats on the verge of a huge win in congress. we will write down what's in the sweeping health care, climate and tax bill. the 11th hour just getting underway on a big news monday night. wanna help kids get their homework done? well, an internet connection's a good start. but kids also need computers. and sometimes the hardest thing about homework is finding a place to do it. so why not hook community centers up with wifi? for kids like us, and all the amazing things we're gonna learn. through projectup, comcast is committing $1 billion so millions more students can continue to get the tools they need to build a future of unlimited possibilities. this? this is supersonic wifi from xfinity. it's fast. so gaming with your niece has never felt more intens

if it got bad for you and they made it very clear to you, this is robert mueller's pit bull andrew weissmann, if i'm not mistaken, that if you told them what they wanted to hear that they will go easy on you and maybe even let you go. is that true? >> they never said they let me go but the implication is they will go easy on me, yes. they had their own narrative. they did not care about the facts. >> sean: you knew what they wanted you to say, is that true? >> secretary jean-pierre: a well, i sensed what they wanted me to say by the way they were answering the questions. they wanted donald trump to be involved in various ways and have for knowledge of different things that were going on with wikileaks and trying to make connections to russia. it didn't exist. >> sean: so here they are offering you maybe your freedom back, you are in solitary confinement. how many months in solitary? >> about a year. >> sean: and all you had to do was start telling them things, i don't want to put words in your mouth, that you know not to be true and your life would've been much easier, better and you would h

and andrew weissmann on each revelation keeps looking things worse for trump. >> president trump's legal team at quite requested the appointment of a special master. this is kind of a last resort situation. >> why a trump appointed judges scoffing at his attempt to slow down the investigation. and then it's election night. steve kornacki is here for all the results. from new york, florida and beyond. all in starts right now. >> good evening from new york i'm chris hayes. we do have a lot going on as you can see from the bottom of your screen there. it is primary election night three states, new york florida, and oklahoma. polls of just closed in florida and oklahoma, to be closing in for new york at 9 pm. new yorkers if he's still watching this 11 hour to vote. florida i can tell you that and d. c. news projects that former governor ankara

andrew weissmann, go! >> so, in addition to what you just heard, event, even if you assumed that the former president declassified this information, it still government property. and it's a crime to take that. it's also a crime not to turn it over, pursuing to this pasta peÑa that we heard was already issued before they went to a search warrant. and if you lied to investigators and said you already complied entered everything, and you didn't, that's yet another crime. so look, what we are hearing and the reports that we are hearing, that we don't know for sure that it nuclear capabilities. that's exactly what we were talking about, that for merrick garland to have approved something like this, it had to be something of such singular importance, that he would undertake something like this. which is a search, and the fact that he had to do a search warrant, and not do it by subpoena, it's precisely because as attorney general alluded to today, they tried lesser means and it did not work. so i think the real

. >> so that very point, we heard from former prosecutor andrew weissmann about what trump said or didn't say in where the case goes from here. watch this. >> in a civil case once the defendant who you are thinking of charging takes a fit in and then, you have a adverse inference, so if you have that i have to do is prove the case by preponderance, or once the jury's is going to be told that there's an adverse inference against the other side, your case is pretty well done. >> do you agree with that neil, the case is done? now that james can present this, here's my evidence, trump said nothing, here's my evidence trump said nothing. and if so, that's a bad look. >> that's exactly right. that's what will happen in the civil case. so trump is basically taking the civil case. why is he doing? because he's worried about the criminal allegations here. this is a fifth amendment privilege it's about criminal stuff, he's worried about corny jail for these offenses. and there is no adverse inference there. now zooming out steph, the big issue, we saw the former president's home raided on monday. f

as difficult as it is, to go after a ceo of a major organization, it was andrew weissmann himself who took down and run where the most senior executives were jailed for their dishonest business practices. it is so difficult and you were the person who didn't. i want to read something else from the documented stood out when they were talking about what they found. >> newspapers magazines, false phone, but the news articles, is it all pronounced, notes presidential correspondence, personal post presidential records. he would take those with them. of moos and a lot of classified records, a most significant significant concern with that highly classified records were unfoldered, intermixed with other records and otherwise and properly identified. i'm fuller, new word for me, basically these highly classified documents in their folders had been taken out, thrown amongst other pieces of paper. is there any scenario on planet earth where documents like this would just be thrown asunder with other stories of trump, other highly classified documents. would a highly rational before that what th

. >> chuck i want you to weigh in on this, andrew weissmann wrote this tweet earlier. the fbi is required to give trump an inventory of what was found in the search. if trump claims he had no government property in his home and this is a witchhunt, then he should release the search inventory. time to put up or shut up. meanwhile, a source close to trump says they won't even release the search warrant. so what now? >> so there are three pieces stephanie. the affidavit which lays out the probable cause, the search warrant which is the court order permitting agents and tree, and as andrew said the inventory, the list of stuff that they took. those last two things, the search warrant, the order itself which doesn't have a lot of information and the inventory which is well in inventory a list of the stuff they took. these things were given or were supposed to be given at the scene of the search. i think andrew makes a good point. mr. trump or his lawyers probably have those documents. it will have a little bit more information but not nearly as much as the affidavit. if the