Live from washington, im paula reid in for jim acosta. You are in the cnn newsroom. Former President Trump is pushing back on the new criminal charges hes facing. The former president took to social media today to deny that Security Footage from maralago was deleted, but thats not what prosecutors have accused here. They allege that he was part of an attempt to delete the footage. Prosecutors say a maralago property manager, Carlos De Oliveira, urged another employee to scrub the footage, saying that, quote, the boss, aka trump, wanted the entire server deleted. De oliveira is accused of lying to investigators about moving classified documents at the resort, and the indictment alleges that the desire to have this footage deleted was all aimed at trying to conceal critical information from investigators. De oliveira is due in federal Court Tomorrow morning. Trump also says that the footage was voluntary handed over. Thats also not true. It was subpoenaed. This weekend, trump has been on
and i to the average person, think it looks questionable. if you stay loyal, you get a great attorney. it s all paid for. and if you are not, you likely will not keep that representation. again, it s all legal, and it s also a way to get information. all right. i need to move on to january 6th. what are you expecting? we know the former president has received a target letter, obviously passed on his opportunity to go before the grand jury. his lawyers met with the special counsel this past week. what are you expecting? i don t know what they discussed. i do know that i represent former commissioner carrick, and we have a meeting scheduled in about a week with the special counsel s office to talk about a lot of the efforts that the giuliani team was taking at the time to investigate fraud, and that s really going to get into, you know, the core of whether they can charge somebody with having corrupt intent. do you think that the prosecutors need to wait to talk to your client, kbb
has been publicly banging the drum. your leader from the president to those who have the power to review this case. well, something needs to be done. this has to stop. reporter: a person familiar with the conversation tells cnn, he also privately petitioned the president to issue a pardon. i didn t ask him, and if he s doing that, i don t have a problem with it. reporter: gallagher s lead attorney has also represented hekseth. he has nothing to do with you getting involved in this case? no, i was recommended to this case by commissioner carrick. reporter: commissioner carrick is bernie carrick, former top cop in new york city and convicted tax evader. the source tells cnn carrick also recruited mark mccasey to the case. he s a trump organization attorney, currently fighting congressional subpoenas for the president s financial records. how is that not a conflict of interest? do you want to make a motion on that? gallagher s why have who has been campaigning on kpi
qaeda strikes could be imminent. is there a seedling of truth to any of what donald trump is saying today? well, let me say first that i respect commissioner carrick and everything he said right now, he accomplished a lot on 9/11. he was twh, he was brave. i feel a butt coming here. but what he s talking about is what happened after 9/11. and the real questions are what happened before. and the reality is that president bush, based on the presidential daily briefs that i have read was told more than a done times that there wassen attack coming, that it was imminent, that there were going to be many casualties, that there were terrorists in the united states. the 9/11 commission report essentially was he shouldn t have been surprised, correct? no. there was no way he could have
the war of words between trump and bush. today, trump tweeted jeb is fighting to defend a catastrophic event. i am fighting to make sure it doesn t happen again. jeb is too soft. we need tougher and sharper. jeb bush s response, donald trump talks about foreign policy as though he is still on the aplentyis. commissioner carrick, you were here in new york on 9/11. you disagree with donald trump wholeheartedly on 9/11. tell me why. well, you know, anybody that says that george bush didn t do everything in his power to keep us safe in the aftermath of the attack, i would have to disagree with. i was there from the point that the second plane his tower two. i was physically standing under the building when it slammed through the building. and i was there for the first 3 1/2 months afterward leading the rescue, the recovery and the nypd s investigation in conjunction with the fab.