i don t know, i wouldn t say it s surprising necessarily, but it indicates the justice department of course has a lot more tools than the select committee did. you read the indictment, it looks a lot like the select committee s work with additional details. it makes me presume the special prosecutor has a lot more information that s not in the indictment that s going to be clear very soon. things like the vice president was taking contemporaneous notes while these conversations were going on and the repeated conversations the president had with the vice president on this issue, it seems like he was in a way targeted consistently by the president, according to this indictment. is that something that you all were not aware of? well, we know that there was this multi-step campaign, this pressure campaign that the vice president was at the center of. that was very clear. but again, the vice president didn t speak to the select committee. these unindicted coconspirators spoke to the c
backward and forward, cnn political analyst and the new york times senior washington correspondent and best-selling trump biographer maggie haberman. thanks for joining me. i wonder, as we had been bracing for this indictment waiting for it to come down, as you read through it, what stood out to you? a couple of things, kaitlin. number one, much of this was known. much of this was in the public domain or was uncovered by the house select committee run by liz cheney and some of her colleagues so look at this two years of investigative work that preceded there and it s all there. it s all very clear. there were a couple of threads they boil down, jack smith s team boiled down into a three conspiracies that he says took place and that trump was at the center of. what is striking is the therapy few new details they have are from, say, mike pence who talked about private conversations he had trump and had his notes subpoenaed.
times senior washington correspondent bestselling trump biographer maggie akerman. maggie, thank you for joining me tonight. wonder as you know we ve been racing for this indictment waiting for it to come down. what stood out to you as you read through it? a couple of things kaitlan. much of this was known, much of it was in the public domain or was uncovered by the house select committee run by liz cheney and some of her colleagues. so you look at this two years of investigative work that preceded this and it s all there. it s all very clear. there were a couple of threads that they boil down jackson s team boil down to three conspiracies and he said took place and trump was at the center of. what is striking is that the few details that they have are from mike pence who clearly talked to investigators about private conversations he had with trump, who had his notes subpoenaed, which is why they show up there. there is an effort by jack smith in this indictment to say
cnn s bill weir is here to explain to us what our leaders to do now. and tonight, we are learning more about what donald trump plans to do if he is reelected in 2024. it involves completely reshaping the power of the presidency. one of his former staffers tell us us what that means. but first donald trump has to deal with the various court cases and investigations that he is at the center of. the doj in team trump go back to court tomorrow to hammer out a trial dates for his mishandling of classified documents. here s what donald trump said sunday but the judge in that case, when he appointed. i know it s a very highly respected judge, a very smart judge in a very strong. judge but you appointed? her i did, and i m very proud to have appointed her. she s very smart and very strong. loves our country. loves our country i mean. we leave we need judges who love our country so they do the right thing. let s begin there with
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