two months. democratic congressman so lofgren of california joins me. now she was a member of the january six and served as one of the managers of donald trump s first impeachment trial. congressman, great to have you on the show. thank you so much for making time for us. what went through your mind as you read this indictment? , wow i was stunned actually, we ve been reading the news reports but the pictures of the classified documents in the ball room that was open to the public, the with classified documents, was just jaw-dropping. this wasn t charged but we would be naive to think that our adversaries don t have agents in mar-a-lago. anybody can go in all you need is some, money there is no security, or clearance needed to be aghast at a wedding and be close to the document. so this is really this is
him doing so? we know that can be changed. we know that can be altered. reporter: within the 49-page indictment, pictures showing documents stacked high in a mar-a-lago bathroom, ball room, office space and elsewhere. what he did is incredible. absolutely incredible. but the system allowed it to happen. the system is broken. it needs to be fixed. reporter: the convention also drew a handful of anti-trump protesters, co-opting one of his catchphrases. lock him up! lock you up. yeah, hillary clinton, she got a lot wrong. you re an idiot. reporter: they could not point to any piece of evidence but caused their support to waiver. i think trump is the best president we ve ever had and i m all about getting him re-elected. reporter: and special counsel jack smith encouraged people to
documents including allegedly telling his lawyers not to cooperate with the grand jury subpoena. they don t even once mention the presidential records act. reporter: it outlineses two different occasions where he allegedly showed documents to unauthorized people and he admitted on tape having secret documents that he had not declassified. as president, i could have declassified, but now i can t trump said according to the transcript of the audio obtained by cnn. there is an audio recording of him doing so. we know that that can be changed, that that can be altered. reporter: within the 49 page indictment, pictures showing boxes of classified documents stacked high in a mar-a-lago bath room, ball room, office space and elsewhere. what he did is incorrect. but the system allowed it to happen. the system is broken. it needs to be fixed. reporter: the convention also
should we get attacked by other countries. so, these are the things that certainly should never be stored in the white and gold ball room of mar-a-lago, which is one of the places that the former president was storing these things, the storage room, his bedroom, a bathroom and a shourer. one of the ironies there of course was he was putting these things in a shower. he was obsessed, if you remember back in 2016, with the fact that hillary clinton had a server in her bathtub. and there are specific interactions detailed in the indictment that involve the former president. tell us about those. yeah. i think the one that stands out really is the fact that his current attorney, evan corcoran, records contemporaneously some interactions that he has with the former president, in which he says that the former president says things like this. well, look, isn t it better if there are no documents? this is after they get a
jack smith released the indictment today ahead of the court appearance in miami. and as we all discovered when it hit, the details inside those pages are simply stunning. yeah, and disturbing. the indictment alleges the former president transported boxes containing hundreds of classified documents from the white house to mar-a-lago. some were stored on the stage of a working ball room that he used at the time for events and gatherings, that anybody could wander into. the club s website calling it perfect, quote, for smaller soirees or an incredible cocktail party. some of the documents were kept in the bathroom. most telling in the indictment was that trump aid walt nauta texted of papers spilling onto the floor, including one so restrictive it s restricted to the five eyes, our closest allies. and the anderson, the indictment alleges that mr. trump took some of these documents to a second club, bedminster, where he is today,