the times adds, that includes the cost of protecting the staff that are carrying out the investigations. what was most fascinating and kind of most disturbing is that 1. 9 million of that money went to paying in the u.s. marshals to protect jack smith, his family, and prosecutors working on the case, many of whom had been named name checked on social media by donald trump and his supporters. people went out of their way to tell me that that number was rising rapidly as the almost $2 million to protect the department of justice, to make sure they are not harmed during this investigation. that is something. meanwhile, former nypd commissioner bernard kerik, you remember him, he worked with rudy giuliani to uncover what was alleged voter fraud, he has now turned over thousands of pages of documents to jack smith s office. and tonight former trump justice department official richard donahue told nbc s spoken to the special counsel s office.
campaign is up to, while the former governor faces criticism over his state. then, the florida governor resigns after a newspaper the student journalists who wrote that story joins me live, as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. good evening once again. i am stephanie ruhle. i m excited to be here with you tonight because we are beginning this week waiting and watching for what special counsel jack smith does next in the investigation into former president donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. about a week ago, trump confirmed he was a target in smith s election interference probe. now, while we wait for news on a possible third trump indictment, we are getting a clearer picture of the scope of the investigations. the new york times now reporting that the justice department has been pouring resources into the trump investigations and the special counsel is now on track to spend a total of $25 million a year.
the state could even higher, if this is happening in the course of a presidential campaign, may 24, that could be a time when trump is emerging from a republican primary victorious, and heading to a general election. there s no way that you can just further amplify the type of rhetoric that he s been doing already. glenn, when we hear these big numbers, those of us who are not prosecutors, don t work in the doj, we don t understand the kind of resources it takes. what does it tell you that almost $25 million will get spent? i talked price, to save democracy, to promote sort of free and fair elections. and importantly, to deter the next aspiring dictator if we happen upon one from trying to overthrow the express will of the american voters. i mean, that is priceless. greg, the new york times article also mentions fani willis s investigation. give us an update there because that is also taking a huge amount of time and attention for that office? it is.
people were saying to him and what he knew was going on at the time. that would really feel need into this. do you think jack smith could be making room for further prosecutions down the line at the state level? we know he just brought brad raffensperger recently, the current georgia secretary of state. we know today the washington post is reporting arizona is escalating its own probe into election activities in and around the 2020 election. looks like they may have their own fani willis investigation. there s a lot happening at the state level both from the feds and from state level a.g.s. is it possible we could see a situation where former president trump is charged and then the investigations and indictments continue on after that? yes. i started my career at the manhattan d.a. s office and as much as people like to joke about state and federal, and federal and local, there is sometimes cooperation. and if something can t proceed in one system, the authorities
people from doing such things is for there to be a penalty, and if there s no penalty, this is going to happen again and our democracy might be taken down by some future president. this is going to become, to both of you, this is going to become such a part of history forever more, our legal history as well as what we all study in school absolutely. this will be a case we read about in the history books let s remember, we re watching it unfold, and there s a lot left before the story is finished we are going to learn about what happened in georgia with the fani willis investigation. we may get charges federally fo the january 6th involvement and for the documents. and so before this chapter of history is written, i think t there s a lot more to come thanks both of you for your perspective today. it s so important, and that does it for this edition on an