any other witnesses. he s also charged that s his bodyo man, his aide who s a navy. vet. it s a common restriction of criminal case, but it s not b practical, is it? i mean, how do you enforce that? they get up there with each other 20 hours a day. i understand . s th well, that s the thing. a lot of the people that pl allegedly he s not supposedpeope to speak to are people in his inner circle. but i thin wn his k what we cant tonight, brian, is a similar message to what we sawa messag n the gop conventions in georgia and north carolina, whertis ean the former president will tell the american people he s being . yitically persecuted and this would not be happening if he was not the gop 2024, front runner by name for it. thanks so muchhappen. it s getting more crowded by the minute on the eve of trump s arraignment. we appreciate it. the 2 and he s going to be speaking, a by the way, in about what looks like about a half hour, maybe earlier. we learned that a breach of the executive
specifically about i the case? will he try to use it to keep the wind at hi s back and create additional momentum like he got in the polls after the alvin break alvin bragg indictment? let s go out to kevin corkn bra he joins us with more. kevin, set the table for what we should expecn, set tort a couple of things ared on e actually coming up. i m imagining right noveg i knos on everything i know about the president and his team, he s going ove r some thoughts, wan not necessarily going to write everything out, but i know that they wan dt to make sure that he doesn t run afoul of what s happening from a legal perspectiv e. ofte but i can assure you of this.do he wants to get out there as hes often does. he wants, waople to tell the pea who are going to be waiting and listening to his every word thatdy t he is ready to fight. meantime, jack smith, the special counsek l overseeing the classified documents case against the former president, actually has a decades long prosecution record
negotiations taken froatmdiscus presidential briefings. discussions with the secretarysi of state about conflict in bosnia and much, much more. very big stuff. not only was bill clinton never even considere d for a criminal prosecution based on the tapes he toon hek, but when he was sud for them, he won the case. judge amy berman, jackson s decision states under the statutory scheme establish by the presidential records act, the decisio n to segregate personal materials from pr is madeal records by the president during and i the president s term and in the president s sole discretions . you surprised to hear that, aren t you? any normaledo hear aren t administration, even an opposing one, would consider that, woul to be the end, but nt the corrupt biden.
person.tinct they have to understand these very distinct issuesis. you know, we have the espionage act here, which nobody seen becauswhice it was never applien history. so it s a difficult situation. you have to pick the right an: peoplethe . the president doesn t really adhere to a script. he has no tools. you write him out in markeites do you have a sense of what he t will say tonight? because i know he wa s told not to bring up the case to any witnesses or somebody who might be in the case. so, in fact, leader, thank nw you so much. we re going to go to the united states now. who s getting some war, gettm fc some supporters? it s a much bigger crowd than we thought we d see. but the president a matter of moments when you re addressing that crowd. he s had a quite harrowingyo dayu .saw you saw the size of the motorcade that led himt. the motorcycles, the police officers into court. he stayed there a very shortthe time, was let out again, tookpp an impromptu, we understand, stop a
a scheme to solicit loans and gifts from a virginia and corporation. ultimately, the supreme court ruled, well, that was ridiculous. they overruled and overturned that conviction unanimousl overt y in als 2016. smith, by the way, alsopr prosecuted formeosecr north carolina democratic senator and former vp candidate john edwardsr 2011 on federale campaign finance laws. bulaws, but in 2012, a jury foum not guilty on one countg in and they deadlocked on the other five, resulting in a mistrial. oh, yeah, he a mistri also prosecuted former new jersey democratic senator bob menendez in 2015 and a pay for play scheme involving his office. but an 11 week trial in 2017g ju ended in a hung jury. and the doj agai.n declined to retry that case. u.s. attorney generattornel merm garland, as you know, appointed smith to lead a pair of investigatioitd n surroundingits the former president of the united states. tae, hisone, his handling of clv documents found in mar-a-lago. we ve beene t talking about