why they are charging donald trump, and again, multiple counts. 37 counts alone for donald trump. robert, as you re going through this, from your reading as a lawyer, as a former federal prosecutor, do you not read this as potentially very bad for donald trump, or do you see this dispassionately? i don t really know how to answer that. it s a prosecution. it s serious. if he s convicted and with some prosecutions different. if he s convicted, he can go to jail. okay? i have a security clearance. it s secret. it s not top secret. that s not a reflection on me. it s a reflection on the documents that i had to recently review in connection with is criminal case. i had to go in and out of a scif, a security compartmented information facility. it tends to be like a little room in a courthouse.
unless we have a document to match it up with, that s something that doj has to go through. when it comes to this, as to whether pushed false claims about the election, again, it goes to what he believed. we re not talking about just some statement made to a biographer in hopes they are going to trash mark milley. we are talking about something where there were people working who were presenting him information about whether there were inconsistencies in the election. one of the problems with january 6 is that donald trump was wearing two hats. on one hand, he is the commander in chief. he is the guy who under the constitution is charged with ensuring the laws are faithfully executed. on the other hand, he is a candidate. it s very difficult to really look at this dispassionately. if you were to try to take a step back and say, what if you
signal, i think, as we head into the next big election season. it has it is made even stronger by another interesting resolve last night. the other major upset that happened, and that one is in colorado springs. they re the independent candidate for mayor flipped as heat that had been held by republicans, get this, for 45 years. if you started covering politics like i did in the late 90s, colored of springs was the epicenter of conservatism in america. it s the seventh largest city in the country run by republican. you would think the message might be getting to the threw to republicans at this point that there may just best edging strategy is broken. i have been saying this dispassionately, [laughter] i ve got a dog in the fight, is they say, but it doesn t seem to be working. nobody seems to be picking up on this in republican circles. they are pushing the same unpopular messages over and over. going hard on out of control crime and culture wars and outlawing abortion. i want to as
season. it has it is made even stronger by another interesting resolve last night. the other major upset that happened, and that one is in colorado springs. they re the independent candidate for mayor flipped as heat that had been held by republicans, get this, for 45 years. if you started covering politics like i did in the late 90s, colored of springs was the epicenter of conservatism in america. it s the seventh largest city in the country run by republican. you would think the message might be getting to the threw to republicans at this point that there may just best edging strategy is broken. i have been saying this dispassionately, [laughter] i ve got a dog in the fight, is they say, but it doesn t seem to be working. nobody seems to be picking up on this in republican circles. they are pushing the same unpopular messages over and over. going hard on out of control
really calls into question whether or not we re a nation of laws. so much crime and so little time. hi again, everyone. it s 5:00 in new york. for the people who know him best, who looked at him most closely and dispassionately, the investigators, trump s criminality isn t a question. it came down to whether or not they had the power to charge him. now that he s no longer the president there are multiple criminal investigations into the twice-impeached ex-president s conduct. the question of indictments against donald trump are more pressing and more salient than ever today. however, trump isn t just a former president. he s also a current presidential candidate. having announced his bid for the 2024 presidential race back in november as those doj investigations were heating up. this weekend at the conservative movement s annual shindig trump made clear any indictments against him would not stop him from continuing his presidential