charge. or as the january 6th committee put it, the big ripoff. yeah, so thate reporting wa before these three statutes sort of leaked out on the letter and wire fraud was not one of them. of course there could be a superseding indictment that would bring this into play, so doesn t mean there never will be.n we do know early in jack smith s investigation they were issuing subpoenase and questioning witnesses about the fund raising by trump s pack. they raised over $250 million from trump supporters, from donors told this is s going to tos a legal defense fund that going toef fight election fraud and not e only had trump been td there wasn t election fraud, but they spent the money on other things. the money went to like $200,000 on 20trump s hotel properties a things like that. sure looks like jack smith was exploring mail and wire fraud for soliciting money to be
spotted at a federal courthouse in washington, d.c. where a federal grand jury was meeting. and although trump hasas no pla to travel to washington this week toas testify before the special counsel, william russell, ase former white house aide of trump s who works for hiso 2024 presidential campaig will testify to the grand jury tomorrow. now, as donald trump sweats waiting for the special counsel s next move, we re getting m new insight into what jack smith may have up his sleeve. nbc news has confirmed h the targethe letter donald trump received from jack smith informing him he is the target of an investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election spells out in black and white three federal statutes related to the dep rueration of rights, conspiracy to defraud the u.s. and tampering with a witness. a and those federal statutes are not for thede faint of heart. as the new york times reports, the possibilities are chilling. conspiring to defraud the u.s., for example, is quote,
supported by the evidence developed. it s important to remember beyond the threats to democracy the state farm arena ripped lives apart. we heard the accounts of how elections be workers were inundated with racist attacks and death threats friday the former president s supporters because of lies. who can forget this moment from the january 6th select committee s hearings? one of the videos we just watched mr. giuliani accused you and your mother of passing a usb drive to each other. what was your mom actually handing you on that video? a ginter mint. as to why the special counsel is interested in the surveillance video, the agc reports the subpoena shows the widening from in georgia from justice department special counsel jack smith. it demonstrated growing areas of overlap between the doj probe and the fulton county investigation of interference in
charlie, your colleagues at the new york times reported on william n russell being subpoend by thebe special counsel last fall. russell is,el quote, a 31-year-d aide to mr. trump who served as a special assistant and deputy director of presidential advance operations in the white house. you continue to workio for mr. trump asyo a personal aide afte he left os, one of a small group of officials who did so. d the person with knowledge of the fbi s interest in russell said that itre related to the grand jury investigation into events that led to the capitol attack by mr. trump s supporters. talk me through, charlie, why russell is important, what it is that he might know. well,gh russell is obviously young but he s someone close to trump in terms of carrying his stuff around and being physically adjacent to him a lot. so he would h be party to one would think, a witness to a lot of conversations that trump was having with other people in those crucial months after the election as he
don t know about what jack smith has collected on classified documents and january 6th. any sense that stefanik or mccarthy or anyone else in leadership for that matter is actually worried about a potential forthcoming indictment? the short answer is no. these lawmakers have sort of made their bed when it comes to donald trump. in the case of stefanik, someone who s publicly endorsed him, all in. kevin mccarthy hasn t publicly endorsed donald trump but he s done just about everything else. he s directed the house to defend donald trump essentially in the case of the new york indictment. i mean these folks are pretty much all in. there s no backing out of this now. i think there are lawmakers who may have more skin in the game in terms of whatever happens from this jack smith investigation, someone like scott perry who was involved in the investigation, had his cellphone seized at one point may be more concerned about what s coming down the pike here. but at this point the play book