guilty plea yet, maybe he has. i still find it very curious that we do not have any marquee names that have flipped. that is unusual it. leads me to conclude the perhaps, jack smith is keeping his powder dry and we are going to see a sizeable january 6th indictment very soon. i still find it a curiosity. it would be phenomenal if mark meadows has done that. former white house chief of staff, certainly no diet coke aid, he is a big deal. david, last word to you. when it comes to election interference, when it comes to the 16 case, we talked about this in the abstract. democracy, overturning elections. we cannot forget that the reason we are here is because donald trump and one of the charges we believe might come up against him, he talks about in the target letter. the deprivation of rights. donald trump and his campaign
crime as the success. there is no question from what we are reading that that is what the evidence is going to show, that there was an attempt. it is a question of nauta being the one that i would really want to flip. he had the direct conversation with trump. he can say that trump said to me, and when i went down to talk to de oliveira, i said to him that the cost the boss, and he knew exactly who i meant, donald trump. he is the one who is really important. de oliveira really puts their screws to nauta. together, there are a really powerful team. i would love a future historians have to write that the first president to go to prison went to prison because the aid who got him diet coke flipped on him. glenn, we have seen a big few names in trump s legal circle facing forms of accountability for efforts after january 6th. we saw jen ellis getting in trouble in colorado for her lies that she had to admit to. cindy powell has backed away from some of her claims. rudy giuliani lost hi
that he lied about the actions of two georgia election workers, ruby freeman and shaye moss. what do you think is the importance of going after trump s lawyers to get some accountability that way? yes. the lawyers are going to be some very important witnesses against donald trump. i hasten to add usually trump s lawyers don t testify against their own clients. except when the client in lists the lawyer to be part and parcel of a fraud. i think that it is interesting to me, mehdi, ordinarily when we re investigating these large scale and conspiracy cases, what we see and what i used to do as a prosecutor is tried to flip people over time. turn them into cooperating witnesses. have them entered guilty pleas, and cooperate. usually you see that pattern emerge publicly. i find it a curiosity that we have found we have seen no people of consequence charged and developed as cooperating witnesses. at least not publicly.
is hardly trump s biggest legal challenge. on friday, we were all bracing for an indictment in an entirely different and bigger case from the feds. jack smith s investigation into trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. all indications show that the indictment there is still imminent with many legal experts speculating that it could come as soon as this tuesday. and then there s georgia. tomorrow, monday, the 31st of july marks the first day of a three-week period in which it is highly success to that fulton county d a fani willis will bring charges against trump and his allies for their election interference efforts. as trump s legal cases mount, so to the costs. according to new reporting from the washington post, trump s political groups spent more than $40 million on legal fees in the first half of 2023 alone to defend him, his advisors, and others. that total is more than any other expense that the pack has occurred during trump s 2024 presidential campaign. according to fe
the diet coke aid. how much of this is a blatant conflict of interest in your view? i think quite a bit of it is, mehdi. here s the reason why, if you re representing either of them, you have to give them advice that is best for them. the longer this goes on, the best advice for them is to flip on trump. there is no way around. typically you get a new indictment if you re representing somebody. their question to you is, hey, am i looking at more time? they answer here is not really, you are already facing so many charges. it is far more likely that you re adding another defendant, another mouth that you have to hope stays closed. if it flips, and again, for the two people involved, given how much the money is going to be for them, if they cut off the pipeline of legal fees, they have invested interest in taking representation against trump. a lawyer s probably going to tell them that if they are being paid for by trump.