having lost the election. that s actually something that the january 6th committee did a lot of work to establish. the idea of his mindset. the idea there were people around him telling him he lost the election, that he was hearing them, he internalized that, and he then went forward and applied these pressure levers anyway. that s going to be really important. again, for the sake of transparency, it s something that we have the benefit of knowing. it gives us some rare insight here after having seen a year and a half s worth of investigation here on capitol hill, that casts some rare light on the fact that now this special counsel investigation is obviously coming to a close, and we re understanding a little bit more of what they may have found out and the lineses of questioning they may been answering. we have two sources with direct knowledge telling nbc news that former president trump did receive a target letter from special counsel jack smith on