information, corruptly concealing documents nationa, conspiracy to obstruct justice, and alsoracy to 18 u.s.c. 1001e statements. now, let s not pretend here because over the next year, mayb. e more than that, maybeonger, longer, we re going to be seeing a very complicated legal process that will unfold regarding this indictment. ste we re going to cover it every step of the way as it does es unfold. e at dif and i m sure at different points, you re going to see merrick garland, the attorney on the hill, insisting that this prosecutionthe hill all bee by the books without political fear or favor. are going to be filed.motion cross motions are goings to be filed. leaks will happen, but maybe in an unconventional wa hapy. but i want to be veryy clea clear upfront herer . tens of millions of americans believe that donald trump isican being indicted by d fbi because he s a political opponent of the d.c. establishment and joe biden and, of course est he s the most popular rep
i can t speak for anybody else, laura, and i ve given up predicting with what any otherta senator might do. but i can just say for myself that i think thi s is criticalt moment in our history as a nation, and this is the time a to standnation. and say we are g to fight for the rule of law. senator, thank you verye ruln now, trump responded tonight trt on social. n here s what some of what hee said has been going on fort they years. and they can t stop because it s electiotheyn at the highesh level. there s never been anything like what s happenedere is neve i m an innocent man. i m an innocent person. they had the mueller. they this is what they do so well. if they would devote their energies to honesty and integrity, we ll be a lot betterte theirgy t our country. they could do a lot better. they could do a lot of great things. they did nothing wrong.i did and we will fight this out just like we ve been fightingno forn seven years. it would be wonderful if we could devote our full
grand jury in the special counsel investigatiohen, president trump. and did he mention anything abouention at byron of former s, including placed staffers likehp meadows having the screws turnedla on them before they wet into the grand jury? no. well weninto t, we don t know a. and we do think that one ofthin the charges in the indictment is conspiractharges iny, which s more than one person. trump did point out that aftern. the manhattan indictment, which a lot of people who were not even trump supporters thought watrums very, very weak, that h, poll numbers went up and interesting thing, you just pointed out what governor desantis said about thisterestinyou justpointe the . in the presidential race have a bit of a conflict of interest here. i think most of them believe a co, as do their voters, that trump has been unfairly since 2016.
on to documents that he s very proud of, maybe in some cases or otherwise, why we trusted him with the very lifeblood of the country just a couple of months earlier. now it s criminal conduct. so on a gut level, that doesn tsens sense. two other points i want to make quickly. when you said earlier that, you know , republican leadership should come forward, all leadership, aldershil should cow forward and speak out against this. and you can be surareak e, if they find defense, national defense information with joe bidedn, democratic leadership will speak out. pres clinton should offer to bme president trump s defense lawyer in this case. and finally, you asked, wouldprc they prosecute him if he weren t running for president? ruzero chance. jerry nadler said it a couple of years ago. we cannot trust the voters. we have to use extraneous thasures to, go after donald trump. and that s what happened. and i ve had the conversation with him s suggesting why not walk away from this, be a king
really didn t seem to learn anything from last august whenyf ,you know, the fbi conducted a search of mar-a-lago and they said nothing for three days, allowing the forme nothingr president to sort of set the narrative to, frankly, you know, spin falsehoods about what happened. js this is what cnn is concerned about when we re we re borderin stuf the, you know, banana republic stuff. we re not bordering. no ve entered the banana territory tonight. yeah, this is an absurd, ridiculousured territo and dangs indictment. i can t believe they haven t released irous i cat yet so that we can see it. i agree with miranda. i think the timing such that here james colmer and all the house republicans and democratss can go see what n going on with the allegation from a credible source about joe biden. they just happen hours later to drop this indictment on president trump. you think that s a coincidence? but i got to tell you, i was thk the chairman of the oversight committee, i issued subpoenas