Manhattan D.A. receives threatening letter with white powder

At one o'clock this morning, Donald Trump posted yet another insulting and threatening message to his social media platform. He called Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg a, quote, degenerate psychopath and warned that potential death and destruction could follow a charging decision from Bragg's office in the Stormy Daniels Hush Money case. At 11.40 this morning, DA Bragg's office received an anonymous, threatening letter. That letter said, quote, Alvin, I'm going to kill you for this in all capital letters with 13 exclamation points. The envelope contained white powder, which thankfully was not dangerous. A senior New York law enforcement official says there have been several hundred threats to the DA's office in recent weeks, including a couple of dozen considered directly threatening serious harm to Bragg.

Of course, we can't directly link Trump's behavior to these threats, but every everyone can see what Trump has been up to lately on social media. And it's disgusting. The Manhattan Hush Money payments case is, of course, just one of Trump's legal troubles. He's lashing out in all directions. In the classified documents case, key Trump attorney Evan Corcoran appeared before a federal grand jury this morning in Washington, D.C. Corcoran's testimony was ordered by Judge Beryl Howell, who ruled last week that there was sufficient evidence Trump had misled his lawyers about the classified material at Murrell Argo.

NBC News reports that same judge dealt another blow to Trump in the January 6th probe. Judge Howell denied his claims of executive privilege and ordered Mark Meadows and other top aides to testify before the grand jury. Former FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Struck explained why that testimony will be so crucial. While many of these folks have gone before the grand jury, while many of these folks have gone to the January 6th committee, they haven't answered questions about the things that Trump himself said to them or that they said to him. And that, of course, is at the core of every investigator, every prosecutor, every agent wants to know what it was that Trump said, not what Mark Meadows said to Cassidy Hutchinson, not what John Ratcliffe thought when he was talking with somebody else in the White House staff, but those individual communications they were having with Trump himself. And that's what this order demands, compels them to provide information lies to the grand jury. Thank you.

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Stephanie Ruhle