hey everybody, good afternoon. i m yasmin vossoughian. donald trump is in for the fight of his life. the former president faces a tuesday arraignment on 37 criminal counts, involving his refusal to turn over classified documents that never should have been in his possession. this hour, he s gonna be taking his defense public within appearance in georgia. as his gop political rivals tiptoe around the story. in addition to the politics of, this we are going to dive deeply into the substance of the allegations in the indictment. it is a treasure trove of damning material from photos that showed documents being hoarded and bedrooms, bathrooms, and even the mar-a-lago ballroom. conversations where trump himself waves around top secret material as well as evidence, in which he apparently tries to get his own lawyers to lie to the feds. looking for the documents. we will get into all of this coming up. we begin with the new information that we re learning with the unsealing of the h
if his loyalties change. maybe even sees that, my chance at a pardon is going away. if donald trump is going down in the polls. maybe now is the time for me to talk to doj. it s likely they didn t even know the type of evidence that the department justice has before this indictment was unsealed. correct. doj, even before they knew what they knew personally, doj is not going to keep them in the loop as they re conducting their investigation. that s not something doj just. that s one of the reasons they re so devastatingly effective, they operate in supersecret, leaving us to guess at the tee leaves as to where they are in the process. we re gonna have a lot more as we talk about the defense, that s gonna be mounted by the trump team. the other thing that i found was really interesting through this indictment, the public statements made by the former president. especially in lead up to his election in 2016, specifically about democratic candidate for president hillary clinton. when
august, august 15th, we now know the fbi was investigating not only what russia was trying to do to intrude in our election, but also whether the russians might have any american confederates who were trying to help them. by august 15th, the homeland security secretary jeh johnson convened a conference call with all the top elections officials all over the country to give them all an in-person warning from the secretary of homeland security about security risks to state election systems. he got on the phone with all the secretaries of state in the country to talk to them about russia s aggression and apparent willingness to meddle in that particular election and what appeared to be their designs specifically on our election infrastructure in the states. now that call, jeh johnson will later explain, didn t go all that well, but then three days later, august 18th, 2016, the fbi sent out a secret flash
alert from its cyberdivision, again, warning state election officials, warning secretaries of state that they needed to take steps now to beef up their firewalls, beef up their other security measures because it wasn t some vague sense of russian hostile intentions toward our elections. no, by that point the fbi cyberdivision had observed russian state hackers specifically targeting multiple u.s. states and succeeding in breaching security and getting into election systems so conceivably they could mess with the vote or mess with voter registrations in at least two states. so the fbi sent out that flash alert august 18th, 2016, sent it from the fbi cyberdivision that was supposed to be a secret alert to all the states. of course, it immediately leaked to the press. but at least at this point, you know, the call from the homeland security secretary, with the public reporting that it was russian state actors who hacked the democratic party with this flash secret alert from fbi cyber, hey
because of the dnc getting hacked. they now think our whole system is on the verge of disaster because some russian is going to tap into the voting system. and that is just not i mean anything is possible, but it is not probable at all. politico published that on the morning of august 28th, 2016. by lunchtime on august 18th, 2016, literally that same day, within hours of that politico piece being published, a researcher at an american computer security firm called up the election officials in that guy s state to let officials know just as a courtesy that in case they weren t aware, their entire election system was completely open to the public and available without any hacking at all to any interested person who wanted to look at it or mess with it. this is a state where all of the voting on one type of electronic voting machine with no paper record created at any point in the process. and all of those election