constitution. richard nixon corruptly use instruments of the government, but he wasn t on a mission to overturn the constitution itself. that s what trump tried to do, and it s worth noting, he has said that he intends if he is reelected to terminate aspects of the constitution. which is a stunning statement, and i ve learned as we went into this investigation, to pay attention to what trump says. because it s what he intends to do. he intends to he said, terminate parts of the constitution. and he s been very overt about taking to the presidency authorities that don t belong to that branch of government. really, it s a very ominous set of predictions that he s making, should he be elected. i think we ought to pay-elect
third defendant? tell us about the scope of jackson s case here, and if it is, and in what direction, it is expanding. well, they re not uncommon, but i think most cases don t i think jack smith is continuing his investigation, and he s made it determination that he wants to have a strong as was bookcase. he means that he is not going to race to the finish line, even if it might cause a little bit of a delay. he wants to have the strongest a number of things. first of all, a town involving the actual document that trump was waving around, trump claimed it was a newspaper, it was his bravado, it wasn t really classified document. now they have that document, they re charging that document, and then he s included this obstruction of conspiracy, involving the destruction of evidence. very powerful evidence that
day, another former president has found himself accused of the very same charge again. on thursday, donald trump was hit with new counts in special counsel jack smith s classified documents case. in a bombshell superseding indictment, the ex president was charged with an additional count of willful retention of national defense information, and two new counts of obstruction. so with these new charges, trump now faces a staggering total of 40 criminal counts in that case, the most serious of which could land him in prison for up to 20 years. now, in that superseding indictment, prosecutors have accused trump, along with his coconspirator walt nauta, and a new third defendant carlos de oliveira, a mar-a-lago maintenance worker attempting to delete surveillance video from the resort. coincidently, just after trump s lawyers received the grand jury subpoena requests for that footage. according to the indictment, on
separately and they re going to look at the evidence and see if there s more than hearsay. but you cannot actually, if you re really trying a case, look at these counts separately. we have to remember that this evidence is going to come into a trial where the jurors are going to see overwhelming evidence that trump really, really wanted these documents. he wanted them very badly, and his lawyers were telling him that he had to return them to the government, and essentially, all of this obstructive activity was around those lawyers. and so i think all of that in combination along with that reporting, i think it makes a very strong case. i actually think that jack smith, the mar-a-lago case really stands alone as the most straightforward easily prove-able case of all the cases that are arraigned against donald trump, in my opinion. charles, we may be discussing this among ourselves, the simulators and the comparisons about trump and nixon and whether they re like or not. but trump seem
accidentally a raced the missing minutes, which are believed to contain a conversation between nixon and his chief of staff just three days after the watergate break in. many suspected it was the president himself who ordered its destruction. but that s where trump s parallel to the other disgraced ex president ends, because on august 8th 1974, just 12 days after the house recommended those first articles of impeachment, richard nixon faced with the overwhelming evidence against him and eroding support within his own party, he resigned. colonel trump isn t ready to give up, he s not going anywhere. here he is just yesterday, doubling down on his commitment to retake the white house, no matter what may stand in his way. if, going forward, you get these indictments, you ve got convicted and sentenced. does that stop your campaign