Special counsel Jack Smith's final report has been handed off to Attorney General Merrick Garland, leading to speculation about the level of detail in its pages.
MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin noted Tuesday that Donald Trump's team had seen the report, which led the lawyers of his co-defendants to press for censorship. The judge, Aileen Cannon, later declared that it would not be released.
Rubin said that the two-volume report likely won't have much unknown information. "But what there might be that we haven't seen is documentation and evidence for the facts as we understand them."
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"If that's what's in these reports, then possibly what they are fighting against is substantiation of things they've always claimed never happened. Extra details," she added.
Those might not be included in the report as a whole, but they could appear in pieces sprinkled throughout, she said.
"Remember, when they moved to dismiss the case, or when they moved to preserve their case after the presidential immunity decision in D.C., they supplemented that motion with an over 1,800-page appendix," Rubin recalled.
"That doesn't mean the special counsel's report here has anything like that, but they have tons of evidence we've never seen," she said. "Grand jury transcripts, witness interviews, documentary evidence. Again, it's not clear to me that would necessarily be in a report, but it might appear in footnotes and give the public greater confidence that the way Jack Smith says something's happened did, in fact, happen that way."
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