i also want to underscore, the fact that this is being charged in florida is enormously significant. legally, i think it s the right move by doj. because they are going to avoid the messy question about venue. unquestionably, this crime happened in florida. had a charged in d.c., they would ve had a major legal problem on their head. but getting to the political point that david and maggie were making, dial trump got 5.4% of the vote in d.c. in 2020. he s enormously unpopular there. he would ve had a very unfavorable jury pool. in florida, he won in 2020. he s going to have that make a very big difference. that s a point that i bunch of lawyers have made to me, close to him. i want to go back to d.c. and kaitlan collins. kaitlan? yes, anderson. and now back with this is our senior legal justice correspondent evan perez, with new information on security at the courthouse in miami, which is where we have expected these charges. what do you know? that s right, kaitlan collins. w
to declassify material. and that he was bound, not withstanding the fact that he is the commander-in-chief, to follow the procedure and he that he knew that, by violating the procedure violated the espionage act. let me tell you something, i think there is a lot of questions in just a little discussion there there is some questions as the president as commander-in-chief has some inherent authority that congress cannot disturb relative to classified information. i think it is an open question, and the justice department is now going to have to stand behind the position as an absolute, that a president does not have that authority. there will be, for sure, as david says, a disconnect between what we heard donald trump saying publicly, what we hear him say on truth social, and what his lawyers are saying in the courtroom. however, know that those statements that donald trump is making outside of the courtroom can be used against him in the courtroom. and they and he s already
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justice department announcement of the charges against him, in a series of post on his social media network. in one, just a few moments ago, he wrote quote, i have been summoned to appear at the federal courthouse in miami, on tuesday at three pm. he goes on to say, he never thought it was possible that such a thing like this could happen, and then drifts into boasting about how he won all the votes of the presidential election, which we know is not true. he also wrote in all caps, quote i am an innocent man. kaitlan collins joining us now, our senior just correspondent evan perez. evan, what do we know about the seven counts? what we don t know the details of exactly what the seven counts are anderson. we know that the former president was on notice. he knew that he was being investigated for a couple of particular statutes. one is 793, the espionage act. that s the willful retention of national defense information. we know he was also notified that he was under investigation fo
cortical parents by the former president. kaitlan collins? evan, that s what sticks out to me, that we should remind people. trump is the one who announced this news, similar to the way he announced when the search warrant was executed in mar-a-lago, also when he said he was going to be indicted in that hush money case in new york. he publicly broadcast much of this information and now he s letting everyone know that this is happening, they specific, time is specific place. and so i imagine that has to do with a lot of the security as well, because there s a question of whether or not his supporters will show up. absolutely, kaitlan collins. everybody has learned from what happened on january 6th that the former president does have a hold on a particular set of his base. and nobody wants to make the mistake of not being ready for a situation, should it entail. nobody s saying, of course, that is going to be violence. but if you are law enforcement and you saw what happened on janua