alongside donald trump, maybe conspirators. those charges may be ones that can only be brought in a different jurisdiction because there s constitutional rules about where charges can be brought. i should say in spite of my tweet, it is conceivable that donald trump would be charged in florida and not d.c. i don t think that will be the case. but i do think the one thing i m pretty confident of is that we are going to see charges with respect to the classified documents case and it seems by all accounts it s going to be this week because i think that doj will feel that internal pressure to move this along. i have 378 follow-up questions, but i ll start with one. what i think you re articulating is that the auspices of the meeting, to battle the peering of attorney/client privilege, may be a trump-driven errand because the matter has been
venue. where are you going to indict? if you re going to indict. and here there are two possible places. florida or d.c. with trump saying that he made the decision in d.c., that makes the case for d.c. look stronger. of course those d.c. judges have already had aspects of this case including the attorney-client privilege aspects of this case already. so they re familiar with it. you know, look, i don t think it s impossible to say donald trump isn t going to be indicted. but i think all the signs are indicating that he will be. and that squares with i think the experience that those of us who served in the justice department in national security positions have had, which is you can t take this classified information and this national defense information, mishandle it, lie about it, and then expect not to be indicted. it s one thing if you ve made an innocent mistake about a document or something like that. it s an entirely different thing when as it looks there s been an orchestrated
right with your credentials, with your relationships and your expertise. i m going to read it to our viewers. a zillion stories about trump case, but bottom line is that he s getting charged and it will be in d.c. and this week. open issues are whether others may be charged and whether they will be in d.c. or florida. please explain. sure. first, it is really typical to see what we are seeing in terms of donald trump s counsel going to the department of justice. we saw the same thing looking at the manhattan d.a. s office that prosecutors in case like this, where there s no need to nab the defendant because they re in the middle of committing a crime or a violent crime or they re fleeing, they give defense counsel an opportunity to be heard and to make any and all legal, factual, discretionary
their opportunity to be heard, because a sign of the very last thing that will happen. if you are not opposing charges, there is no reason for defense counsel to come in and make a presentation. you ve internally decided not to go forward. it is conceivable that defense counsel says something, something new, something you haven t understood, some fact that is going to change your view. i just think in this case, that is so unlikely for somebody as experienced as jack smith where also the mar-a-lago case, as you noted, and the facts are so overwhelming, that this is something that defense lawyers have an obligation to make these arguments, but it s very unlikely to change anything. so, again, there would be no reason to have the meeting if there weren t going to be potential charges. it s extremely unlikely that defense counsel is going to say
least we have deduced that signifies is it is again the latest sign that jack smith is trying to wrap up all of the evidence and make a decision. but as of today as everyone has laid out, the trump lawyers went into the justice department and we have also confirmed that they did meet with jack smith and a handful of other top officials at the justice department and essentially laid out the case for why their client, trump, shouldn t be indicted. but i do want to caution i know it seems like all signs that, you know, are pointing to the fact that an indictment is imminent. i m not necessarily sure that the grand jury being paneled this week means that it s happening this week. there are a number of things that the grand jury could be doing. the lawyers can speak to this better. but we could be hearing from a new witness. we could be hearing from a witness who has now been immunized and compelled to testify. we could the grand jury could be potentially seeing a new body