with covid and whether it is reasonable for those to be handed over, things to do with people s private lives. and i think on that specific point that is subject of a legal proceeding and i can t say much more than that. but people should know that we remain committed to the important work that the inquiry is doing because it is right to learn the lessons from government and that is why the government has handed over 55,000 documents already and i think the rigor of the process i m not sure exists anywhere else in the world as far as i know. it is a very rigorous and transparent process. and we were talking about being able to look at a leader s text messages. and what you often hear from president biden on the world stage, he says america is back making a clear reference to former president trump who is the frontrunner for the republican nomination. if he does succeed and you are working alongside him, what do you envision a trump/sunak
however, we did get some insight as to what the evidence what evidence actually exists and we got a that when the probable cause affidavit was unsealed a year ago. we got to know some of the evidence that does exist. you talk about a jury trial here. could donald trump still make a deal with prosecutors here? of course he could make a deal, but highly unlikely. we re talking about donald trump here, the man who leaves it all out in the media because for him it is more important what the public thinks as s opposed to this is a wake-up call, you are now facing jail time. we are talking about a criminal case having to deal with the federal government. so in terms of it may be possible and actually almost certain that he can be campaigning next year in 2024 and still have various cases lingering. we know that the new york case, that the new york district attorney s office, that case is
and we see an ex-president in deep legal trouble. yeah, so many people beganlingbeganle i grappling with what it means. one question many are asking, if trump were convicted under federal charges, could he still run for office. there has been some sort of historic precedent here. take us through that. well, yes, look, donald trump is going to fund raise off this indictment and there will probably be some of his supporters in miami that are trying to own this, they are trying to own the story, get ahead of it if you are touchdown. we ve had in american history a candidate running, socialist party leader who went to skjail and campaigning from prison. so things are possible. former leader of panama was convicted and put in prison in
very quickly. a person who spoke with trump thursday night tells cnn the former president and his team are j jacked up and ready for fight back. reporter: donald trump and his team were expecting an indictment imminently, however they were still surprised when it actually came down. i ve talked to a number of sources close to the former president who said that they met with lawyers, they heard about the summon, they have not indic. right now trump and his team are coming up with a plan to respond to it. we saw a short video, but they are looking at a larger plan of what this looks like, will he have to appear in miami, will he give remarks in miami, will it come back to bedminster. we know donald trump this weekend has two campaign events, one in north carolina and one in
former president trump. trump faces seven counts including violations of the espionage act, conspiracy, obstruction and making false statements related to the alleged mishandling of classified documents after he left the white house. fbi agents seized about 100 documents. prosecutors claim documents were likely concealed or removed from his storage room as part of the effort to on strobstruct the investigation. trump says he is summoned to appear tuesday at 3:00 p.m. here he is. it is called election interference. they are trying to destroy a reputation so they can win an election. that is just as bad as doing any of the other things that have been done over the last number of years. i m an innocent man, i did nothing wrong. i m innocent and we ll prove that very soundly and hopefully