present its case and we don t know also whether the former president might choose to testify in his own defense. i want to start by bringing in cnn senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid who has been all over this story for many, many week, and paula, the indictment is out now. i wonder, what to you as someone following this and every single move and detail, what stands out to you as the most damning information we ve gotten? it s such a strong reminder of how little we know compared to investigators. one of the things that struck me and i think will resonate with the american people are the photographs that the indictment uses to tell the story of how some of the nation s most sensitive secrets were strewn about mar-a-lago. prosecutors in this indictment say that these secrets were in a bathroom, in a ballroom. there you see the photo of them being in a bathroom boxes stacked up there, in the ballroom. these are cardboard, pretty flimsy in a ballroom actively being
knowingly submitting a certification saying they were produced when he knew it wasn t true. like yogi berra, the famous yankee catcher said it s deja vu all over again. this was the same thing mixon orchestrated during the watergate cover-up obstructing justice, trying to get people to change their stories, paying hush moin, destroying document, all of this was done some 50 years ago, so not much new in ear actually, even the approach he took saying he wasn t a crook was pretty much replicated by donald trump the other day with that video. that was the first thing that went through my mind. the second, this is a pretty solid indictment in the sense that the allegations are put together pretty neatly.