still live ear, it is over a alleged scheme to deletes footage after trump s lawyers have sent a draft subpoena for that footage. delivery are told employee for that the boss wanted to serve or deleted, so he insisted the server was deleted, then asked what it would do? he accuses trump of attempting to destroy so using trump s own logic from 2016, that a presidential candidate accused of skewing to destroy evidence and obstruct investigation shouldn t be allowed to run for president, trump has no choice. drop out. watch this space.
in court. the superseding indictment lays out a timeline showing when the draft subpoena went out and then trump calling carlos de oliveira and then the final subpoena going out and not getting a message that trump wanted to see him. now to changing plans and traveling to mar-a-lago, looking at surveillance cameras, and then the whole exchange involving de oliveira telling another employee, quote, the boss wanted the server deleted. eric, what is your sense of the physical evidence prosecutors have on the alleged cover-up attempt? that s a great question. i do think one of the things we ve elected to hear from trump s defense going forward is the evidence alleged in the indictment is largely circumstantial, not direct. i do think the government is going to have to establish that trump did indeed say what he is alleged in the indictment who have said. i think that will be important. i think it is worth noting that the government did make clear, it did interview the people who are at
could be deleted, in front response, by the way, to a draft subpoena. and again, as to whether or not that s enough to get a conviction for an attempted crime really, of course, turns on what the jury thinks. but, yeah, exactly right. is it a charge for an attempt and not the actual doing of it. aishah: and, of course, the whole world is still waiting on this possible other indictment that we were anticipating to happen haas week. it didn t happen. this january 6th probe. are you surprised that it s taking so long? usually it s about 4-5 days, right, after somebody would receive that target letter as the former president has said he has. are you surprised how long it s taking? no, i think it s extremely difficult issue for, among other things, you deal with all sorts of first amendment issues; the right to free speech, the right to petition the government. so i would think set aside what actually happened9 and the facts on the ground, even if you assume some of the things they re s
donald trump had gone to these executives and said, i want to delete the servers, they would have said, we re not doing that. if he d said to his lawyers, i want to delete the servers, we have a draft subpoena sitting there, that is the definition of obstruction of justice. so, he reached down into the organization to people who wouldn t know how to say no to a donald trump and said get this done. to their boss. thanks very much. the former president along with the entire field of the 2024 presidential campaign, the republican field, are all speaking at the same event in iowa tonight. kyung lah is at the dinner, has the key moments. i ll talk to frank luntz about the way he says he sees trump could be defeated. .with smarter, more efficient routes. .so you can deliver more value to your customers. fast. reliable. perfectly orchestrated. the united states postal service. rich, velvety coffee. café quality espresso. one high-pressure system that can do both.
and, you know, they said, first of all, we don t understand the obstruction of justice charge for attempting to destroy these tapes. i mean, nobody deleted them. the fbi didn t unearth them from the bottom of the delete files and the servers. this, you know, was somebody came in to security, said, you know, we want to delete the server. that person called their boss who called their boss. and the answer was, no, we re not doing that. and, you know, the trump organization ended upturning over not just the tapes but the entire servers with the entire 45-day period over it. but the reason for that, i mean, the core of your question is, if donald trump had gone to these executives and said, i want to delete the servers, they would have said, we re not doing that. if he d said to his lawyers, i want to delete the servers, we have a draft subpoena sitting there, that is the definition of obstruction of justice. so, he reached down into the organization to people who wouldn t know how to say