Large interest most significant federal indictment of donald trump ever. This is in a way that well document more significantly than the legal headaches he already has. This will be tonight the first time any former president has been indicted by the Justice Department for trying to steal an election. Now, i mentioned, if you have been walking our breaking coverage, we have been going through what is a voluminous filing. Jack smith found six other coconspirators that are named in the filing. It alleges that trump spread lies, that there had been outcome determinant fraud, fraud that would have swung the election back to him, and these claims were false. And trump knew they were false. Ill put on the screen what were watching for. Want to share what were learning. S this a day we have been trying to hew closely to what we know and dont know. In the last several moments, the most heads up youll get from an agency that jack smith will approach the podium you see here. Some of the local Be
remains to be seen whether jeff clark is in fact coconspirator four, and even if it is, he obviously is entitled to his day in court. he has not been charged. he has not gone through that process. but by all accounts in terms of the description, that s who was described here. i want to tell viewers, if you didn t see all of what jack smith said or you re interested, we re about the play the key part of it as newsworthiness. we re also going the hear from a former prosecutor with experience who s my special guest on this newsworthy night because he was approached and turned down a request to represent donald trump legally in a jack smith related probe. so we have special stuff coming up. we re not take any breaks given the nature of the news night. before i bring everyone in on that, i wanted to put the same question to christy greenberg on all of the above. looking at how much detail there is in this indictment about the coconspirators, it
the word leak such a benign term. it s an unauthorized disclosure which may be illegal. i don t have any idea who it is. i can tell you there is an in sa tiable appetite for leaks in this town both on the receiving end and on the giving end. you didn t hear me talking ab wikileaks. that was an unauthorized hack. i m old school. i don t think you oug to disclose things that are intended to be kept confidential or classified. melissa: right now on the hill there are two committees, house and senate intelligence who are investigating russian interference in the u.s. election, but in light of this new information, democrats want more. the intelligence committee is a graveyard for investigations. let me tell you why. the hearings are largely in secret. the public will not have access to the testimony. melissa: schumer also wants jeff sessions to recuse himself from any russia related probe, melissa. melissa: one more question. does the fbi investigation go beyond flynn?