mar-a-lago for mishandling classified documents and obstructing the investigation was unsealed about a month ago or so, willie. they have now added charges to it. they ve added another defendant, mr. de oliveira. that supersedes the first indictment, it replaces it. it has additional charges, and we call it a superseding indictment. what do i make of it? well, you know, it s sort of sad in a way. when i was a federal prosecutor, there were always lower level individuals. i can tell you, quite frankly, i didn t get any joy out of prosecuting them. my goal was always to enlist their cooperation, to have them tell the truth. you know, each of them come to a fork in the road where they can either tell the truth or they can lie. if they lie, if they obstruct justice, if they attempt, in this case, to delete security footage that has been subpoenaed by the department of justice,
to attack iran. isn t it amazing? i have a big pile here. this thing just came up, look. this was him. they presented me this. this is off the record, but they presented me this. this was him. this was the defense department and him. wow. we looked at some. this wasn t done by me, this was him. all sorts of stuff. pages long, look. wait a minute, let s see here. yeah. isn t that amazing? this totally wins my case, you know. except it is, like, highly confidential. yeah. by the way, isn t that incredible? yeah. i was just saying, because we were talking about it, and he said, he wanted to attack iran and he said you did. this was done by the military and given to me. um, i think we can probably right? we ll have to see. yeah, we ll have to try to declassify it.
reporting on this, this seems like this case is not about the facts and the law. this is going to be about donald trump trying to win the presidency so he can just put an end to the case politically. because i don t think there is going to be much of a factual or a legal issue for him to raise. the one thing i still would wait for in terms of when we will see charges is we did learn yesterday that the defense went in to make their last-ditch pitch to jack smith, that the next step for them is to say they d like to be heard by the department of justice to appeal that decision. that is something they were afforded the opportunity to do in the documents case. it s something they could do here. but people should not be concerned about the timing of that because that can happen within one day. they meet very quickly. there s no way that the department of justice is going to let that appeal process linger. is there any chance, andrew,
will he not win? he stands for something bigger, more raw, more deeper, more angry, that a rational argument, he s not going to win, doesn t matter. i don t care. i m voting for him anyway. yeah, the old rules of the rational rules we apply to politics don t apply to donald trump. there is something larger at play. donny, i didn t know, first of all, we had white microphones available, but we got one to match your glasses. that s an option now. i ll keep it in mind. just cruising into a summer weekend, donny. have a good one. cruise wear will be available in november, by the way. okay. the donny deutsch collection. thanks so much. andrew weissmann, thank you so much, as well, and david french, to you, also. have a great weekend. still ahead on morning joe, the lawmakers start the august recess early despite looming shutdown deadlines. what it means for the upcoming fight over several crucial spending bills. as we go to break, very excited to tell you, my guest this week on
jen palmieri, your baltimore orioles, your first place baltimore orioles kind of have the weekend off. the last place new york yankees coming to town. some scrappy kids from the bronx. they might get aaron judge. we don t foe for sure, but we think aaron judge might come back this weekend. we re happy to be on the same field as the first place orioles, it s an honor. stop. i hate it. i looked at the schedule and told jim, like, oh no, the yankees are coming to baltimore. it s just it doesn t matter. are you in last place or second to last? we re in last, yeah, by one game. it doesn t matter. way to rub it in. yankees and the o s last, second to last, hard to keep track. it doesn t matter. when the o s and yankees get together, doesn t matter who is in what place, like, it s always a very tough series for the o s. you know, this is our year. i ve been clear, it s a very