we re just learning the identity of that i.t. director, two people close to the investigation tell cnn his name is taveras, trump employee number four in that indictment. trump is also facing an additional charge for willfully retaining a top secret document about military attack plans for iran. cnn s paula reid joins me now. two categories in effect in these new charges in the classified documents indictment. tell us about the obstruction one, about deleting potential evidence here. that s right. all of the new legal problems in this new superseding indictment, of all of them, the biggest one is the fact they were trying to obstruct their own obstruction. here the former president allegedly applying pressure to relatively low level employees to try to destroy surveillance footage, which is at the heart, jim, of the prosecution s case. and now he has a new
clean. but now these two additional pieces that we ve learned sequentially from jack smith s fairly determined and methodical investigation as andrew said, obstruction one, oh, actually, let s just make sure that we don t return some of these and telling aides who know that he asked them do that. and obstruction two, let s delete the serve. and if the government can prove these things and my interpretation is that they are trying to flip mr. nauta and mr. de oliveira as key witnesses who are in a lot of trouble if they don t cooperate, if the government can prove these things and can point the finger directly at donald trump, this is a case in which, you know, mob bosses are typically behaving this way. not former presidents. not even regular people. regular people upon receiving a grand jury subpoena say, oh, my goodness, i need to get a lawyer
game where you get sponsors. there s a lot of stress. he s dealing with a lot of stress. dan, thanks so much for your time tonight on that. time now for cnn prime time with abby philip. good evening, everyone. i m abby philip and this is a special edition of cnn tonight. no need to worry. the bathroom doors lock. that is actually one of the defenses donald trump s allies are using to assure all of us that national security was not at risk at his resort home, but tonight we re going to show you why the indictment of the former president may be more of a national security case than a documents or even an obstruction one. trump s lawyers asking the department of justice for security clearances as the judge sets a new deadline for them to do so. and why is that? because the material that led to the very first federal indictment of a former president is about as sensitive as it
they admit that that is what they did. as to the second article of impeachment, the obstruction one, it s also uncontested. all sides agree upon the facts that president trump, unlike any president in u.s. history, has flat-out and completely refused to acknowledge the constitutional authority of the house to conduct an impeachment. and he s refused flat out to cooperate with it or allow any witness testimony like even other impeached presidents have. they are impeaching him on those two articles for this narrow scope of his behavior that is factually uncontested to and admitted to by the president himself. there s these two articles, they admit, that s what happened, he admits, i did it. that s what they re impeaching him on. but in a way that is novel, thatunprecedented, in a way we are not quite sure how to handle, as civilians as an citizens watching this unfold,
meeting as additional leverage, additional pressure behind that demand. that s all uncontested. they admit that is what they did. as for the second article of impeachment, the obstruction one, it s also uncontested. all sides agree that president trump has flat out and completely refused to acknowledge the constitutional authority of the house to conduct an impeachment. and he s refused flat out to cooperate with it or allow any witness testimony like even other impeached presidents have. they are impeaching him on those two articles for this narrow scope of his behavior that is factually uncontested to and admitted to by the president himself. there are these two articles he admits i did it, that s what they re impeaching him on. but in a way that is novel, unpres dnlted, in a way we re