our top story tonight is a brand new filing by special counsel jack smith. you can see it right here in this paperwork. you can see what they re talking about which is evidence, what lawyers call discovery material. this kind of filing reminds donald trump and his evolving team of lawyers they re on a collision course with jack smith s aggressive office, barreling towards a trial slated to start in august. that could be delight, but only by rulings. it s not a timeline that donald trump s team controls. so they re headed towards that. this filing that we just got outlines the new evidence that donald trump s team will get. that includes interviews of defendant trump conduct bid non-government entities obtained by the special counsel s office. the key word here is interviews, plural, because even in this sparse word we got new information. it means smith has at least one more recording of trump beyond the one we knew about, the one that made news, that was also featured in the
sometimes jurors are likely to say, wait a minute, what s the good faith interpretation of this. the speaking indictment in its depth seems to try to knock down over time any good fate or benign interpretation of the former president s approach to this material. so i think one of the most striking things at least to me about the indictment was the extent to which it detailed the former president s personal involvement with what was happening with these documents. he was going through the documents. he was asking for certain documents to be moved to certain locations, he was having them then moved again. he was personally reviewing apparently the contents of various boxes according to the indictment. that is all going to make it very challenging for him to say this was a mistake or a misunderstanding or even sloppiness. in the allegations are proven to be true, he clearly was directing and personally interested in dealing with these
distinction. doing his job with distinction until he didn t. the fbi caught petraeus sharing classified material with an author that he had a relationship with and also misleading the fbi. he turned a corner and pled guilty, avoiding prison and paying a fine. same for president clinton s national security advicer who lifted classified documents from the archives, cutting them up with scissors, but then cooperated to avoid prison and pay a fine. so history shows you can be guilty those were actual guilty pleas, and still avoid prison entirely. yet many other people serve hard time for these same type of crimes, especially when they are busted and then insist on fighting to the end rather than turning that corner i mentioned. now, people may be following this doj cause because of donald trump. in the news right now there s
meaning what smith s team has to provide under these rules, everything you see here is listed as criminal evidence in the indictment. i m going to enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified information. we can t have someone in the oval office who doesn t understand the meaning of the word confidential or classified. one of the first things we must do is to enforce all classification rules. we also need the best protection of classified information. that is all evidence. it goes to his mental state. it goes to what jack smith says is how they prove each element of the crime, not only what he allegedly did, but what he thought at the time. you heard him say he thought classified material should be protected and it s important and this is how it works. trump s lawyers don t need doj to give them this particular evidence.
featured in the indictment about trump admitting he had classified material and saying he could no longer declassify it. interviews means at least at least one more than that. doj is giving this material to trump so he can review it and prepare his defense. that s along with subpoena and search warrants, grand jury witness interviews and surveillance footage. that could be people defending trump, don t necessarily hurt him. we know his aide and co-defendant walt nauta spoke to the grand jury. this new filing will tell trump about witness whose are not defending him. it may provide testimony that could get him convicted. trump aides have wondered whether people like attorney evan corcoran or former aide mark meadows would take the stand against trump. in the law they call that testifying for the government. it can get confusing when you have a former government