present its case and we don t know also whether the former president might choose to testify in his own defense. i want to start by bringing in cnn senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid who has been all over this story for many, many week, and paula, the indictment is out now. i wonder, what to you as someone following this and every single move and detail, what stands out to you as the most damning information we ve gotten? it s such a strong reminder of how little we know compared to investigators. one of the things that struck me and i think will resonate with the american people are the photographs that the indictment uses to tell the story of how some of the nation s most sensitive secrets were strewn about mar-a-lago. prosecutors in this indictment say that these secrets were in a bathroom, in a ballroom. there you see the photo of them being in a bathroom boxes stacked up there, in the ballroom. these are cardboard, pretty flimsy in a ballroom actively being
florida is trump s home state. in miami-dade county trump goss 46% of the vote, 46% of a 12-person jury is 5.5 jurors and i think that may be donald trump s best chance at an acquittal by getting some of those supporters on the jury to do some jury nullification where they just ignore the evidence and say, i don t want my guy locked up. palm beach county is 43%. he does better here than in d.c. but it was foreign to smith to file in florida because he can make the public understand it s not about politics but about the law and can afford the inevitable delays that would have happened as donald trump would have fought the venue issue and could have won based on a venue issue and undermine the whole case before it got started. is that what you thought was happening, dave? he was trying to get out ahead of a fight from trump and his legal team. i think they re worried about the delays and want it tried before the election.