one-man professional firing squad targeting lifelong republican chris krebs. krebs, of course, declared the election, quote, the most secure in american history that will cost him his job. the firing of the top expert has reportedly come under scrutiny by special counsel jack smith as he investigating every piece of the trump coup plot. and the new york times reports, the team led is asking witnesses about the events surrounding the firing of chris krebs. he was the top official in the 2020 election. mr. krebs selection that the election was secure with the assertion that it was, quote, a fraud on the american people. the special counsel reportedly issud subpoenas two weeks ago to staff members in the trump white house. a key focus for jack smith according to the times. the investigators appear focused on trump s state of mind around the firing of mr. krebs. as well as on establishing a time line of events leading up to the attack on the capitol by a pro-trump mob on janu
according to multiple sources familiar with the investigation. on the recording, trump s comment suggests that he would like to share the information but is aware of limitations on his ability post-presidency to declassify records two sources said. this feels like a lights out indictment of any sort of baloney that he has been saying about i thought i declassified them. he didn t even declassify them in his imagination. if this reporting is true, and i m not trying not to use hyperbole, this is game over. there is no way that he will not be charged. one, it is a tape recording. even though the reporting is there are also witnesses so there could be a tape recording with witnesses, it involves not just possession of classified information, but dissemination of classified information. that puts it into a completely different ballpark when you are at the department of justice examining the seriousness of the violation and whether to bring
but it also could be if there really is such a document, as i understood it, he gave this interview at bedminister in 2021. and there is some reporting also that on the audio recording you can hear the rustling of papers. that could be the classified information, it could be something else that is he rustling in his hands trying to suggest that he actually has classified information in his hands. but if there is a classified adult and it was at bedminster, that raises a whole host of issues. because as you mentioned trump s former counsel indicated when he i thinks of him resigning that he had run into some problems with boris epstein trying to prevent a search of bedminster and of course there is also some recent reporting, again this is speculating here, but there is really recent reporting that one of the employees at mar-a-lago who has apparently been cooperating with jack smith also told jack smith about loading some boxes into a truck to go up to bedminster from mar-a-lago. so
understood he had taken classified documents and trump s comments suggests that he would like to share the information but he is aware of limitations on his ability to declassify records two of the sources said. cnn hadn t listened to the recordings but multiple sources describe them, one source said the relevant portion on the iran document is about two minutes long and part of a longer meeting. and here is what mary is getting at. jack smith leading the investigation into trump has focused on this meeting as part of the criminal investigation into trump s handling of national security secrets. sources describe the recording as an important piece of evidence in a possible case against trump who has repeatedly asserted that he could repain presidential records and automatically declassify documents. prosecutors have requested witnesses about the recording and the document before a grand jury. and there is enough interest to have questioned general mark
some effort by the trump legal team and investigators to a search at bedminster. we didn t know how successful that was. so it is unclear that they would be able to meet that showing. there is no question that when you based on the information that you outlined and also mary outlined about bedminster, there is concern about is everything there. and assure as we re sitting here, you know merrick garland and lisa monaco will authorize the first search and are concerned about the information and what is out there and, you know, is anything being disseminated. i should say just to mary s point about even if this is not true, and it certainly is evidentiary value, it is just unhelpful in terms of the intelligence community to have somebody who is the former president sort of making up