was newspapers. i had plans for a new golf course. meanwhile, he was talking about how they were classified. it is clear from this new indictment that the government knows what that document is. you had raised the possibility to us a few weeks ago, andrew, of a separate case coming out of new jersey because of this conversation and these documents were allegedly flashed in bedminster, which is in the state of new jersey. now, it looks like this has been folded into the florida case. is that what happened here? yeah, absolutely. it seems pretty clear there was a venue issue that seemed to hang up the government because this is a tape recording of something that happened in bedminster. if you look at the new charges that were unveiled yesterday, clearly, the government has been able to see that this document made its way, not just to bedminster, but back to mar-a-lago, so that gives them venue. the constitution requires that you bring charges where the
this was done by the military, given to me. um, i think we can probably right? we ll have to see. yeah, we ll have to try to figure out a declassify it. yeah. as president, i could have declassified, and now i can t. now we have a problem. in total, trump is now charged with 40 counts in the classified documents case. he and nauta have pleaded not guilty to their previous charges. a lawyer for de oliveira, the property manager, declined to comment. a trial tentatively set for may 20th, 2024. let s bring in nbc news legal analyst andrew weissmann. new york times opinion columnist david french. and the host of the podcast on brand with donny deutsch, donny deutsch. jonathan lemire, michael steele, jen palmieri all still with us, as well. andrew weissmannweissmann, let with you. to be clear, this is not the indictment we ve been waiting for this week. involving a separate case on the
reporting on this, this seems like this case is not about the facts and the law. this is going to be about donald trump trying to win the presidency so he can just put an end to the case politically. because i don t think there is going to be much of a factual or a legal issue for him to raise. the one thing i still would wait for in terms of when we will see charges is we did learn yesterday that the defense went in to make their last-ditch pitch to jack smith, that the next step for them is to say they d like to be heard by the department of justice to appeal that decision. that is something they were afforded the opportunity to do in the documents case. it s something they could do here. but people should not be concerned about the timing of that because that can happen within one day. they meet very quickly. there s no way that the department of justice is going to let that appeal process linger. is there any chance, andrew,
yorker, as we say, and that is quite a lot. andrew, for someone who doesn t like to wake up before 9:00 a.m., you ve been up early with us for about five years straight, so thank you very much. thank you very much for that. we appreciate it. i want to ask you, too, we had chuck rosenberg on in our last hour, andrew, and he was talking about the other case we re waiting for, potential in a likely indictment of the former president around the 2020 election and january 6th. chuck said it s as compelling a case as i ve ever seen, which we were struck by, from a guy who has seen a lot of cases. what s your assessment of the strength of the case and how soon we might see an indictment here? so on the strength of the case, we obviously haven t seen the charges yet. we re going to see quite a lot. i suspect it is going to be a lot like the mar-a-lago case, where we learned a bit of additional evidence. if you look at what we know from the january 6th investigation done by the house and the
stick to bidenomics. it s the winning story. totally. i would say i totally agree with donny. a lot of the arguments republicans were going to make against biden in the re-elect, border, economy, gone. you know, look, we re talking about biden s economic story because it s the contrast to trump because he s not talking about trump, right? i would say as the former white house communications director, that strategy is working. andrew weissmann, true new york yorker, got up early. andrew said he is a true new yorker and doesn t like to get up before 9:00 a.m. delightful to see you. you had a great tweet last night about trump with a particular argument i think he made in the filing, about how he should get special privileges to be able to to not have to go to a secure location to see some of the documents that are classified. they re going to be part of the trial. can you explain that? sure.