>> that does it for us tonight.

we will see you again tomorrow. now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> its lawyer night here again at the last word starting up with andrew weissmann and neil catchall. joining us later is carson been goldman, also a lawyer, and former federal prosecutor. former federal prosecutors now requirement to be a guest at this hour. >> we're just surrounded by lawyers all the time because it's indictment season, it appears. not just indictment watch. it's a potential season of indictments ahead of us. >> and since monday, since monday i have been dying to ask dan goldman about something that i heard on monday. you might remember this. it's when robert costello fights finds the manhattan

grand jury, dealer lawyer who said he had discussions with michael cohen at the very beginning of the stormy daniels controversy, and michael cohen said things to him that were very different from what he has been saying to the grand jury. and he was there to contradict michael cohen. and he said that he had told a number of people, apparently, about this difference. his view of michael cohen's testimony a while ago. and the very last night he mentioned all these names. the very last name one of the very last names he mentioned was dan goldman. he met with dan goldman monday and goldman was on the staff of a house committee, met with him about michael cohen and stormy daniels and that whole thing and so tonight is the night. >> tonight is the night. >> we get to ask dan goldman, what was that all about? >> i want to know. >> what did that guy mean? >> i want to know what other lawyers think. i would very much like to know what dan goldman has to tell

you. >> that's what we're gonna find out in this hour. thank you alex. well don trump has made it through another day of his life without being indicted. it could be the last indictment free day of donald trump's life. and trump supporters have made it through another day of their lives without protesting for donald trump as he requested and demanding that donald trump not be indicted. donald trump has made it through 76 years and nine months of his life. without ever being charged with a crime. most 76-year-olds, including most 76-year-olds who are career criminals, are past the point of worrying about being charged with crimes because they just don't feel like taking chances at 76. but donald trump has never learned to stop taking chances,

especially legal chances. and that is why we are tracking two secretive legal processes tonight that could mean donald trump will be criminal defendant trump into different cases by the time he turns 77 on june 14th. the manhattan grand jury investigating donald trump's hush money to stephanie clifford, also known as stormy daniels, is scheduled to meet again tomorrow. and at this point anytime that grand jury meets could be the time that they vote on indictment of donald trump. and the next day, in washington, on friday, another grand jury will be meeting to hear testimony from one of donald trump's criminal defense lawyers, which will very likely be testimony against donald trump. one of the reasons donald trump is in increasing legal peril is

that he repeatedly chooses lawyers who do not know how to say no to donald trump. remember that michael cohen began his involvement in the stormy daniels story as donald trump's lawyer. and as donald trump's lawyer, michael cohen entered a criminal conspiracy with donald trump to spare pay off stormy daniels. that is why michael cohen was sentenced to three years in federal prison. michael cohen is now a witness against donald trump in the manhattan grand jury. donald trump famously said, in the middle of his presence, when he felt besieged by the mueller investigation, get me a roy cohen. roy cohn is still donald comes idea of the kind of lawyer he wants. roy cohn became famous in the 1950s as a completely unethical staff are working for a completely unethical republican

senator named joe mccarthy. from that era forward, the term mccarthy-ism, named after joe mccarthy, meant a reckless, lying, outburst by someone making personal accusations with no evidence. mccarthy-ism that became donald trump's own personal ideal throughout his life. it was ugly, but too many did not seem harmful to the country when before he became a politician donald trump was hurdling is mccarthy style invective at entertainers like rosy o'donnell. but then donald trump brought his joe mccarthy roy cohn operating style into politics and into the white house. and here is the most important thing about donald trump's continuing admiration of roy cohn, who was a mentor of donald trump's. by the time roy coon died, in 1986, he was a disgraced,

disbarred lawyer, who had been charged with -- before he died roy cohen once said, don trump is my best friend. someone should have warned michael cohen that when donald trump says he wants a lawyer like roy cohn and you become donald trump's lawyer, there's a chance you might end up like roy cohn, disbarred and disgraced. as michael cohen is now. evan corcoran could be next. to follow former trump lawyers, roy cohn and michael cohen into disbarment and disgrace, depending on how he testifies under oath to special prosecutor jack smith's grand jury in the washington heights. today jack smith won the right to pierce the attorney client privilege and questioning trump criminal defense attorney evan corcoran about the government

documents and classified documents found, with an fbi search warrant, and on trump's home in florida, including the classified documents that the fbi found in donald trump's desk. few lawyers in history have more experience with the federal appeals process than our first guest tonight, neil capreol, who shared my all last night, the happy news, the breaking news of the time, but a three judge panel of the circuit court of appeals in washington was speeding an appeal on the question of evan corcoran's testimony through the appeals process with deadlines issued to the lawyers in the case not measured in weeks or days but in hours. last friday in, a field proceeding, the chief judge the federal district court in washington supervising jack smith's grand jury issued an

order for every for evan corcoran to testify to that grand jury. trump lawyers appeal that order, and on tuesday the appeals court gave the trump lawyers a deadline of midnight for filing their brief. and jack smith was given a deadline of six a.m. miss morning for filing his response this afternoon the appeals court ruled evan corcoran must testify to the grand jury because judge howell, who had issued the order, had found that evan corcoran's testimony is subject to the crime fraud exception to the attorney client privilege. now let's just stop right here and consider what happened in the judicial system between the close of business on friday and the federal district court in washington, and the close of business today, wednesday, in the federal federal district court of washington. we saw an appeal of district

court judges order processed in less than three days. each party had to file their briefs two days after the district judge ruled in the case. the appeals court ruled on those filings on the same day that they were filed. we have seen that kind of process take the better part of a year in other federal cases. sometimes longer than that. the last three days have been the worst days of donald trump's life as a delay producing litigant. delay, delay, delay has always been donald trump's legal strategy. but it is not working this week. in the face and special prosecutor jack smith's aggressive demand for donald trump's criminal defense attorney to testify to jack

smith's grand jury. abc news is reporting that judge howls order allows jack smith to question donald trump 's defense lawyer on six topics. topics indicate that smith has zeroed in on trump's actions surrounding his response to him 11th department of justice supreme a sub subpoenaed it's not all remaining classified documents in his possession, as key to donald trump's scheme they say to -- the says he will smith says he believes that trump during liberally misled his own attorneys about trump's retention of classified materials after leaving office. smic investigators specifically want to ask corcoran whether trump was aware of the statements in the certification, which claimed a diligent search of mar-a-lago have been conducted, and if that trump

approved of it being provided to the government. sources reveal years with the filings and corcoran was order to detail the steps he took to determine where documents responsive to the department of justices may subpoena may have been located. sources said. he also was ordered to provide testimony on why he believed all documents were with classification markings were held in mar-a-lago's storage room, as he had allegedly confirmed to a top department of justice official when investigators visited the estate in june of last year. evan corcoran's under oath answers to those questions could incriminate donald trump or, evan corcoran's testimony could incriminate evan corcoran himself. evan corcoran's testimony could be the most important testimony

that special prosecutor jack smith will obtain in his investigation of donald trump's possession of classified documents, which don trump has claimed, publicly and falsely, belonged to him. leading off our discussion tonight is neal katyal, former acting u.s. solicitor general, and andrew weissmann, former chief of the criminal division of the eastern district of new york. he is a professor in practice at nyu law school. they are both msnbc legal analysts. and neal, i want to begin with you as our appeals expert because i saw your tweet last night remarking on these deadlines measured in hours. which i, for one, have never seen in the appeals process in a situation like that. >> yeah, i have never seen, it either, and i thought you're peace at the beginning really describes this well, lawrence. so basically you have judge

howell, the very respected judge in d.c. on friday, saying this material, even though ordinarily when you talk to an attorney and client that's protected it's going to be pierced because of what you call the crime-fraud exception. what the law says you can't act through your career attorney to committed a crime. that -- last evening to file a motion to appeal that to our nation's second highest court, the u.s. court of appeals for the d.c. circuit, and then that court did something extraordinary and basically said government you have to respond in about seven hours, by six a.m., to this trump filing. i used to run appeals for the federal government. i have never seen anything like this. and to me i think it really does suggest the seriousness of the investigation. andrew and i were texting last night, trying to figure out why

the court might have issued such a rapid schedule. this is, i guess, what we do on tuesday nights. but the most interesting thing is that the court actually ruled today, swiftly rejecting trump's attempt to try and delay this thing and to try and stop the attorney-client privilege from being pierced. i i'll talk whenever you -- but at least for now that court has moved very quickly, and i think because they see something really significant. >> neal, when is the last time you wrote a brief in six hours for the circuit court of appeals and washington, d.c.? >> not six. i've done 24, though. but six is really interesting. there are some theories people are saying, well, the grand jury is going to meet on friday, the evidence has to be turned over today. and so maybe that's why they rushed it. but to me that is not an

explanation. report could have just delayed the turning over the information -- without having to actually rule on the underlying merit. but here they said government brief just and now we're going to decide it and so i think there's something more going on in just simply the turning over the material deadline. >> andrew weissmann, professor andrew weissmann of nyu law's tool, it seems that law schools now are going to have to add speed writing to the course load. you're giving these kids way too much time to fulfill those, to finish those exams and papers. you've got to tighten the deadline. >> i hope they're not watching this. >> what is your theory after last nights texting session, and as you've gone through the day today, if you have a theory about what that speed was about, what the urgency would be, why

they couldn't have taken a couple of more days, even. >> unclear. i can give you two thoughts. one is that generic that you're supposed to decide, grand jury matters. here in the second circuit in new york, with lots of criminal grand jury matters, it would be unheard of to do it this way, was sort of a matter of hours, but you would have very quick decisions. so that's one theory. the other is that there is some national security issue, that there's something in that filing caused judge howell and three judges in the circuit to be really concerned about getting this information to the government. and just to stress one critical thing here, and i know it's because i had the identical situation in front of judge

howell, this could be the entire ball game in terms of the obstruction of justice and a false statement case, the judge will could bring against the former president. it would be a crime, two crimes that really differentiate this investigation from any saying alleged with respect to the current president or the former vice president. but you could end up with a lawyer giving the last testimony about learning fall statements of the certification and the false statements he made to the department of justice orally. he may very well say that is information he learned from the former president of the united states. it would be exactly the situation that happened with paul manafort before the same judge making the exact same ruling, and it really was game over in our case. obviously we don't yet know what mr. corcoran's gonna say, but the recording is that he is not going to be the fall guy. he is going to say i was

misled. >> andrew, he will go into the grand jury room without the protection of the attorney client privilege, but he will still have the protection of the fifth amendment if he thinks he needs it. >> yes. if he thinks that he would give an answer that would tend to incriminate him, he could assert the fifth amendment. and there is some basis that would lead to the known facts for, at least things suspicious because if you remember the facts are that he drafted the false certification. his claim, i think, will be that he didn't know was false at the time. he believed what donald trump told him. but he didn't sign it. he got a different lawyer to sign it. and so one question i would ask is, why unguarded's green earth didn't you sign it? what was your concern? and then -- who signed it insisted on putting caveats into the

certification, such as, based on the best of my knowledge. and so there's just some suspicion as to why they did all that if they were confident in what they were saying. but again, also remember, if mr. -- were to assert the fifth amendment, there's still a way to pierce that because he could be immunized and be forced to testify. and then he would have to tell the truth. if he did not tell the truth at that point he could be prosecuted for perjury. i do think one way or another he's going to be in the grand jury revealing the underlying information about who gave him that information, that, as i said, very much could be the last piece of evidence that is needed for jack smith to bring those charges. >> and that evidence could be obtained by jack smith on friday. and if that is the top decoration on this christmas tree of evidence that he has

been assembling, that could indicate that he could be closer on the calendar to moving toward an indictment in this case then we might have otherwise thought. neal, i want to go to this technical a point in the appeal, because the appeal court said we were going to allow your appeal to proceed, but we are not going to stay the execution of judge howell's order. so they're allowing, basically, everything that jack smith wants to happen, but technically in the background. evan corcoran's appeal is still pending. >> it is pending, but i think everyone knows the tea leaves from that decision. if there were really serious attorney-client material not protected by the crime fraud exception, they should not be turned over, one would suspect that these three judges today were extremely well regarded, would have said something about that. the fact that there is no stay means that the information

needs to be turned over and potentially the grand jury hearing it by friday. but there is an asterisk, which is trump has the power to go to the u.s. supreme court and appeal it. there are some media reports that he's not going to appeal it, and maybe the case, i don't know what the sources are, reliving consistent with trump's traditional modus operandi, which is to appeal everything, lose everything, by the way, making it clear the trump's legal team has not mastered the art of the appeal. but nonetheless, they do it. and so there is a chance that we will see a delay in the jacks mitt investigation here on the stolen documents, if they try and go to the u.s. supreme court. i think they'll get, ultimately, nowhere with the supreme court, as they never do when they go to the west supreme court as part of the trump team. that doesn't mean they won't try. >> andrew, evan corcoran testifying on friday, assuming

they complete that testimony on friday, or within the next couple of days after that, where do you think that leaves the posture of that case, how far from the finish line of making that case would you estimate them to be? >> mr. corcoran has direct evidence that it is donald trump who told him the information that he put in the certification. it's very hard to see what actually they need to do, at least publicly there is no signs of who else would need to be interviewed or put in the grand jury. i would think that it would be a matter of giving the defense an opportunity to be heard. you all we should do that, giving them a chance to argue why there shouldn't be charges. we saw that happen in manhattan. that would be the final step before there would be recommended charges and a presentation to the grand jury. not being aware of some other

witness. but to me this is the critical last piece of pursuing this particular issue and getting his direct testimony. >> andrew weissmann, and neal katyal, thank you both very much for joining this discussion tonight. and coming up, the manhattan grand jury investigating donald trump did not meet today, but it is going to meet tomorrow. it is scheduled to meet tomorrow. we will consider what might have caused today's slow down and what to expect tomorrow. that's next. on the line. visualizing a patient's most recent scan... will help speed up decision making in the er. and while the woolly mammoth is still extinct... that doesn't mean students can't take field trips to visit them. the metaverse may be virtual, but the impact will be real. only at vanguard, you're more than just

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manhattan district attorney alvin bragg plans to connect a grand jury tomorrow. when jury did not connect his regular wednesday session today. nbc news is also reporting that email communications from 2018, between actress stephanie clifford, also known as stormy daniels, and attorney joe tacopina, have been turned over to the manhattan district attorney. joe tacopina is currently working for donald trump on the manhattan grand jury investigation. in 2018, when stormy daniels was shopping for a lawyer, she reportedly contacted joe tacopina. in a statement today to nbc news, joe tacopina said, never matter, never spoke to her, she tried to hire me by calling my

office and spoke to a paralegal. but i never spoke to her or took her case. contradicting joe tacopina today on that point is joe tacopina in 2018. >> before being represented by -- stormy approached you about representation. did you get the impression she might have found you under the da in which she afraid of are physical safety? >> of course. i can't really talk about my impressions because there is a client attorney privilege detached evil consultation. >> done in 2018 the criminal defense lawyer seem to defend the theory of the case that trump's payoffs to stormy daniels could be criminal. >> where the money come from? if it leads back to the trump campaign funding, that's a big problem. this is a pandora's box that's going to be opened, and unfortunately it is not going to have any good results for

the presidents. >> andrew weissmann is back with us and joining our discussion is charles coleman, former senior assistant district attorney for brooklyn, new york, he is now a civil rights attorney and an msnbc legal analyst. and charles, we are leaning heavily this week on your experience as the senior assistant district attorney in brooklyn. we need that local district attorney expertise for what we are looking at here. what do you make of the pause in today's granary session? no grand jury session but reportedly is sessions scheduled for tomorrow? >> i wouldn't look too much into it and i don't think that we should focus on it entirely too much more than what we have already heard. there could be a number of different reasons why the grand jury did not meet today. sometimes there are scheduling issues with other and other reasons why the da's office or the prosecutor may have agreed not to have the grand jury

convened. this grand jury was meeting already on mondays and wednesdays, and so it could've been of the 23 grand jurors, a substantial number who are unable to attend today for various reasons. they knew that in advance of the decided not to meet today but convene tomorrow. so i would not read into this too much. it is not necessarily that unusual, and they will meet tomorrow, where i suspect alvin black brags assistance will put the case before the grand jury in an attempt to secure an indictment. >> andrew weissmann, robert costello is taking advice for what he perceives as a delay in the grand jury proceedings. robert costello is that attorney who testified at the grand jury on monday, saying that michael cohen told him, back at the beginning of all of this, that donald trump was not involved in the payoffs to stormy daniels and robert costello said today, i threw a wrench into their monkey works. do you think that's the

explanation? >> now. i don't. and the reason i don't is, one, we're dealing with a really sophisticated smart group of prosecutors, and there's just no way that they hadn't thought through those issues. also there's nothing that mr. costello's said that is inconsistent or different than what michael cohen may have told both the prosecutors in the grand jury. in other words, it's not unusual for a defendant to lie to his criminal defense lawyer. that just happens all the time in that business. it's commonplace. in fact, mr. costello has been reported to have said just that, and so that wouldn't be that surprising at all. and then mr. costello, his impartiality is something that

could be questioned. i thought it was unusual that he said i'm saying things to the grand jury that michael cohen has not told them and that the grand juries don't jurors don't know. that struck me as an odd statement to make, because there is no way that he could know exactly what michael cohen who said to the grand jury or what the grand jury knows. and so i thought he would was very sloppy end cavalier in terms of his accusations. to be fair, as we talked about last night, it's very useful for the da to have this information. and if there is some information that is inconsistent or new to the da, it gives them an opportunity to track it down and to figure out if it's really important or not to the case. i don't believe that it is likely to be a reason for why the grand jury wasn't sitting today. >> and charles goldman, alvin

bragg is the one district attorney we know of in america who considered evidence for a prosecution of donald trump and rejected it. he said not good enough, it's not there. we're not going to make that case. so we know that he is capable of saying no to a prosecution of donald trump if he doesn't think the evidence is there. >> we do, lawrence. and the question really, for me, is not necessarily whether he's capable of saying no, but it's why he said yes. as you've already talked about, he's looked at this case before, he looked at the legal theory of taking what is a -- out of new york state law and then trying to turn it into a felony by looking at the campaign finance violations that formed a sinkhole around this matter, and he decided not to deal with it. so much so that it drew the ire of some of his assistants, who then decided to resign from his

office. the question that iron many former prosecutors have been asking is, what has changed from that point to now, when you are talking about, potentially, the same legal theory that you did not receive before, that you -- i will be very honest and candid, although it is unpopular in many people may not necessarily want to hear it, this is somewhat of a continuous legal theory to move on in terms of moving that misdemeanor over to the felony. it's an untested case of suppression in many respects. but i do wonder why alvin bragg has decided to move forward now an illegal theory that he was not comfortable moving forward on when he first encountered it. >> go ahead, andrew. >> i didn't say anything, but i can i actually think that charles is correct if that is what alvin bragg does. i think the one thing that we need to do right now is just wait and see what exactly, if

anything, he charges, and what his theory is. but there certainly are some things that he could do that would be novel. they would be tested by the defense that, fans would have a right to do and should do. but there are others that my may be straightforward. for instance, the sort of simple misdemeanor of filing a false business record seems like an incredibly clean charge with very few legal issues, and frankly a very strong -- where michael cohen can say it but in fact there's so much corroboration that we know of that it seems like a very strong case. >> and are weisman, and charles coleman, thank you both very much for joining us tonight. >> thank you. the >> manhattan district attorney responded to the chairman inviting alvin bragg to testify to their committees. that's next. with congressman daniel goldman. i do a lot of hiking and kayaking. i needed something to help me gain clarity.

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for this one yeah good to many haven't proven cgtn you >> we will not be intimidated by >> we will not be intimidated by attempts to undermine the justice process. that was issued by alvin bragg's office, which appears to be in response to a letter sent to mr. black by house republican chairman requesting his testimony about his ongoing investigation of donald trump. alvin bragg himself did not bother to respond to that letter in any way. because it's surely the single

most absurd letter alvin bragg has ever received from a government official. but he did allow a spokesperson for the district attorney's office to put out that written statement. republicans are attacking alvin bragg, as he knew he would be attacked. they all insult and demean alvin bragg as a tool of george soros. today, the nbc reporter that george soros has never met or spoken to allen brag. joining us now is democratic congressman daniel goldman of new york. he's a member of the homeland security committee, the oversight committee, and the select subcommittee on the operations of the federal government. thank you very much for joining us tonight. you have been -- your service as a prosecutor you have some sense of what the people working and alvin bragg 's office are going through now. but this is clearly going to be the single most attacked, criticized, district attorney's office possibly in history. >> well, that's true.

but even if you assume that to be the case, it's still quite remarkable what house republicans are doing before we have an indictment, before we know what the evidence is. and the aggressive nature of jim jordan, james comer, and bryan steil to ascend an inflammatory and accusatory letter to alvin bragg, without knowing the facts, without knowing the evidence, making all sorts of outlandish accusations. really undermines the rule of law. there is a process here and our criminal justice system for a defendant, potentially donald trump, to challenge any case against him. and of course, we know that 12 jurors must unanimously convict a defendant beyond a reasonable doubt. so, there are many avenues within our system of the rule of law for this case to be challenged, if in fact there are problems with it. but having congress try to

intervene and interfere and potentially even obstruct an ongoing investigation at the state level, not even at the federal level, is really beyond the pale and far outside our jurisdiction. >> but of course, there is no chance of them having any effect on alvin bragg. they didn't subpoena him, they just said, you, know we would like you to testify. he obviously won't. he obviously won't respond. and i believe he wouldn't responded anyway to receiving a subpoena from them. >> well, he should not. even the department of justice, which congress does have oversight authority over, would not give any information on ongoing investigations or prosecutions. that is fundamental to the separation of powers. this now is even further removed. this is a state district attorney, state prosecutors office. so, congress has no jurisdiction. and they're digging as much as

they possibly can to create some possible legislative purposes that you need in over for congress to have jurisdiction. but it's clearly just an effort for them to put one man over the rule of law. and as our second president, john adams, has said, our country is based on the rule of law, which means we are a government of laws, not man. and sadly, my republican colleagues seem to think the opposite. >> we have to squeeze in a commercial break here. when we come, back i want to ask you about what robert costello said about you, named you when he came out of the manhattan grand jury on monday, when he went in there trying to testify in a way that would help donald trump. we'll play for you what he said about you, and get your response. we'll have more with congressman dan goldman, that is next. our flight. so you can have a bit more money, to do even less.

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>> and i listen to michael cohen standard from the courthouse and say things that are directly contrary to what he said to us. my obligation is to bring the truth to both the district attorney and to trump's lawyers. that's exactly what i did. i sent of all of this material that i talked about before. i have 330 emails in chronological order. i have a memo of a contemporaneous memo of the first meeting at the regency hotel. i have a memo of the two hour meeting i had to assistant united states attorneys and two fbi agents in april of 2019. but i have a memo of a meeting that i had in may of 2019, with the house intelligence committee. through their staffers, one of whom was named dolan, who is now congressman. >> congressman dan goldman, what is he talking about? >>, while he's not talking about michael cohen, i can tell you that much. that was on an unrelated

matter. and as an aside, i did not find mr. costello himself to be very credible. but he's talking about conversations that he had with michael cohen soon after cohen was, his office and home were searched. and my recollection is that cohen had enlisted costello because costello had a good relationship with rudy giuliani. and michael cohen wanted a pardon from donald trump, and was toeing the line, the trump line as a good soldier that he was at the time to try to get that pardon. one that did not happen, obviously, michael cohen came clean. and admitted that, in fact, that donald trump had instructed him to pay the hush money to stormy daniels. and if there was any doubt about that, there's a recording. so, you know, this is not, this doesn't really seem to impact the case one way or another. because these conversations between cohen and costello happened well before michael

cohen pleaded guilty to this charge and admitted, ultimately, what happened. >> so, let me get the straight. he -- he said this, what we did some say, was outside the grand jury on monday. and he mentions a conversation with dan goldman, who's now a congressman. and you're telling us that the conversation he mentioned had absolutely nothing to do with this case? >> right, and it's not -- it's pretty unusual for investigators to interview lawyers. normally, the lawyers are representing somebody that the investigators are interviewing. but in that case, we were interviewing mr. costello himself. about unrelated -- i should not say it's unrelated, but it was related to mr. costello's efforts to secure pardons for various people, including potentially michael cohen. but that'll predated, of course, when michael cohen pled guilty and admitted to lying to the

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