than four separate criminal probes. there s the history making indictment in the daniel s case in new york, where trump reportedly faces 30, plus counts related to business fraud . in washington, a special counsel was appointed by the justice department to oversee a criminal investigation into whether trump tried to interfere with the results of the 2020 election and whether he incited the january 6th attack. we re going to walk down to the capital. there s the justice department s mar-a-lago investigation into whether trump illegally mishandled classified documents when he brought them to his florida estate after leaving the white house cnn now reporting federal prosecutors have obtained new evidence in the obstruction probe. in that case, evidence like texts, emails and photographs and in georgia fulton county d a funny willis is overseeing a special grand jury looking into whether trump and his allies tried to overturn joe biden s 2020 election victory in georgia.
classified documents found at mara lago. we have now learned that a federal judge is convinced that donald trump may have used one of his own defense attorneys to break the law on federal agents were trying to retrieve those top secret files stored at mara lago in florida. so this means the attorney may need to testify again and answer questions previously refused to answer by claiming attorney client privilege. trump has not been charged in the documents case, but this may prove significant obstruction probe being pursued by special counsel jack smith. so this all comes as trump prepares for possible indictment in a separate case here in new york in the stormy daniels hush money case, the grand jury is set to reconvene on that today. we re waiting to see if they will decide. to indict and pursue criminal charges, so they re two different things, but two huge developments overnight. we re going to break it all down straight to the big news in the trump classified documents case, a key
journalists of kosovo refused to public the documents the accused tried to give them. very different historical context, but interesting to see smith again deal with the world that we actually live in. how the media and information claims and lies can be pull into the criminal plots. while everyone understands, certainly a lawyer like him, that there ought to be a wide berth for speech, free speech cannot be something war lords or coup plotters hide behind when that speech becomes a instrument or a direct action related to coups or crimes. trump lawyers already under scrutiny for the possible obstruction in mar-a-lago for that case. we don t know whether that type of obstruction probe reaches trump or not. he often uses lawyer as cutouts. but smith s willingness to roll up obstruction into a wider case is certainly something team
investigate crimes, i think was the quote that katie s paper ultimately reported out and sort of stands as the answer of muellerscope. but it s clear from andrew mccabe and others that there were real questions about whether some of the conduct that was scrutinized as part of the obstruction probe was actually part of a national security question. what are the lessons learned from this very recent special counsel probe of the very same man doing some of the very same things? you know, i mean, as an initial matter, the special counsel regulations that apply here really are restricted to criminal investigations. so pete s right that the mandate for jack smith is going to be to complete the investigation, both of these criminal investigations and make a decision about whether to seek charges or not. and when i say seek charges, i mean, it would be up to a grand jury twil return any indictment and any charges. but you re right that in this
about what happened and hits on the underlying notion that when the president of the united states talks about using the justice department or using his powers to go after his rivals, disclosures about investigations will be negatively impacted by that regardless of what went into those decisions. and here we are, frank figliuzzi, four years of covering a president who all four of us have been here in this time period talking about the latest attack against rod rosenstein or against don mcgahn or his interview where he says to a fox news anchor, i hate flippers after michael cohen cooperated with the government. everything out in the public. and to mike schmidt s point and to the reporting that we ve cited, there are certainly explanations, but none that tie all this together. even an inadvertent collection of a sitting white house counsel who s the chief witness in the obstruction probe against donald trump, who is the single conduit between the justice department