joke about trump s false claims of a stolen election. the messages go to questions of criminal intent and whether trump and his inner circle knew biden won. it s also worth noting, those messages first showed up as part of the january 6th committee s final report. just as the federal statute cited in the target letter to donald trump, deprivation of rights, conspiracy to defraud the united states, and witness tampering echo parts of the committee s criminal referral. we believe that the evidence described by my colleagues today warrants a criminal referral of former president donald j. trump. title 18 section 1512-c, which make it unlawful for anyone to corruptly obstruct any official proceeding. crime to conspire to defraud the united states. knowingly and willfully make materially false statements to the federal government.
letter and a schedule for when you want to come in to talk to the grand jury, kind of, at the same time, and on the same piece of paper. what does that tell you? they re not ready to indict? it actually i mean, we are reading smoke signals here, but they re saying, yes, you are a target, expect to be indicted is the clue. also, if you are going to say something in your defense, we are unveiling you that opportunity, but you have four days to tell us, which is interesting that the grand jury is going to be going, apparently, for more than a couple of weeks. jen, let s talk about the crimes, or possible charges that were mentioned in that letter, saying you could put it into layman s for us. the potential charges, conspiracy to commit anse against or to defraud the united states, deprivation of rights, and tampering with a witness. so, what do those tell us about the actual crimes donald trump might have committed? we still don t know, of
included in the letter that trump s team got on sunday night, deprivation of rights, conspiracy to commit an offense, or defraud the united states, and witness tampering. serious crimes in historic times. let s bring in someone who was once in that inner circle of trump s. joining me now is the former national security adviser to donald trump, john bolton, ambassador, thank you for being here tonight, what do you make of the fact that the former president and your former boss is on the verge of potentially being indicted in this case? well, we haven t seen the indictment yet, although i agree, it certainly looks like one is coming, almost any day. we don t know the exact scope of it which could have a big influence, but i have to say, this being the third indictment, not having seen real political
reporter: right. well, good morning, kate. donald trump was clearly defiant in iowa last night and he was putting on that public face that we ve seen him use when he was indicted the last two times earlier this year. he railed against this investigation as amounting to election interference, he criticized special counsel jack smith and also labeled that target letter that he received on sunday as a disgrace. let s listen to what his message to voters was in cedar rapids, iowa. i didn t know practically what a subpoena was and grand juries and all of this, now i m like becoming an expert, i have no choice, because we have to it s a disgrace. if you say something about an election they want to put you in jail for the rest of your life. it s a dis grace. so they can cheat on an election but if somebody wants to question the cheating they want to call you a conspiracy theorist and all these other things. these people are sick.
deeply this special prosecutor has gone to try to get every single detail that he possibly can, but what an extraordinary time we are living n we have never seen this happen in our history before with a former president. and that graphic that we had on the wall just showing the number of people that we know have gone to speak to the special counsel. it s like a strange political form of guess who the game because you see those and that s not even the extent of everyone that they have spoken to. staying true to form donald trump did not shy away from talking about the latest serious legal trouble that he may be facing, openly discussing the target letter and his potential third indictment while campaigning in iowa yesterday. his campaign started trying to raise money off the news hours after trump first went public with it. cnn s alaina treene has more on what s going on with this and what s going on also behind the scenes with the trump team. what more is trump saying? we know that