an accident. as she tells, it she was simply transcribing the tape at her desk when the phone rang. as she reached for the phone, she mistakenly struck the wrong key on the recorder while her foot was on the machines pedal. the motion ended up somehow destroying the tapes content. she was later asked to demonstrate that stretch, resulting in this now infamous photo. not many people bought her story, and it s largely six factored that nixon was behind the deletion. why am i telling you about this? it is something that carlos de oliveira might want to google. as of thursday, de oliveira became to the latest character in donald trump s story legal saga. when he was named as the third defendant in the first ever federal criminal case against former president. the doj hit him with four charges, including conspiracy
after that exchange, he met twice with nauta near bushes on the northern edge of the road sorts property. we should note that the indictment doesn t say whether they were actually able to delete any video. this is not the kind of stuff that you typically read about in federal indictments. it s more the stuff of a netflix espionage thriller like the night agent, or a spy novel involving bungling spies, not smoother james bond types. as for the bond villain himself, trump in denied the latest charges on where else his truth social site just this morning, he blasted the charges, writing that he never told anybody to delete the footage and handed over the taped to the feds, or as he called them, thugs willingly. clay case closed. the classified documents case 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 i
that there were not enough checks against the possibility that somebody of evil and bad character would be elected president. but and hamilton and others who are worried about this turned out to be absolutely right. what checks are there against a reckless, lawless president like donald trump? how about impeachment? how did that work? twice impeached, didn t stop him in the least. there is a in my mind, extinct memo from nixon s justice department saying that a sitting president cannot be indicted it was used to keep him from being indicted. i believe that sitting presidents should be invited. he was able to stand up to congress. and as we said correctly, didn t people around biden
jeopardize the rule of law. i m asking you to do this. if at this point i m not making and order. if i saw a post like in in front of me again, i might think about that that s one major thing. the other thing is the timing. prosecution said that they would like a trial in january of 2024. which for all of us that watched politics intently is would be just amazing because there we are in the heat of the presidential primaries there. we re talking about iowa, new hampshire, south carolina and the idea that mr. trump would have to come to court when he wants to be campaigning every day. that must be a real probably a nonstarter for him. what did his defense say? they said they wanted as much time as they could get. they didn t specified a time. they said we just got this. give us time to read the indictment.
to move forward with this diamond of a former president. never been done before. i think there s a lot of questions about exactly why he decided to pursue this case against the former president. we will hear from the manhattan da alvin bragg moments away. thanks for being with us today. that s the story for this tuesday. my thanks to bill barr and andy mccarthy and everybody here. neil: all right. we re waiting to hear from alvin bragg, the prosecutor that brought this 34-count indictment against the former president of the united states. donald trump pleading not guilty to the 34 charges, largely focused on falsifying business records. all of this going down at the manhattan criminal court. the president is returning right now to la guardia airport. he will fly back to florida at his mar-a-largo compound in palm beach. we understand that he is still