everything just fell. while help got to the scene quickly, they couldn t get peach out for at least six hours. you can t take my hope. you can t take my power. i refuse. that s why i m still here fighting. you can t take anything from me. zblfr hawaii s kilauea volcano erupts. it s more amazing than i pictured in mind. so much going on. it is the top of the hour. we re so glad you re with us on this thursday. so glad you re here. a lot of this news has to do with washington. major news from a former president. something happening that has never happened before. and that is where we begin this morning. new developmentes is in one of many investigations facing donald trump. they involved donald trump s legal team he is, indeed, a target in special counsel s jack smith documents investigation. sources tell cnn trump s legal team received a target letter. the sources have been filled in on the contents of the letter. they have not seen it themselves. on truth soci
bring ryan riley, i want to thank him as well, and everyone who was here tonight. i want to throw to another big gun, chris hayes. i toss it to you, my friend. this is one of the biggest nights i think for any of us who are in this business. it is a night of pathos not joy in the sense that the american republic is having to witness this integration of the presidency or the former presidency in the form of the apparently now confirmed indictment of donald trump. now c there is something so different about the manhattan district attorney indicting donald trump for actions that he took in the run up to him becoming the president in in that hush money payment scheme. we have a multi jurisdictional form of justice. they re from different jurisdictions for different crimes. the united states department of justice, this is the sort of republic at its, defending itself against itself in some senses here. it does feel like we are at the, you talk about all the clichés we is about g
president with multiple crimes. and for the first time since this investigation began america heard directly from the man in charge, special counsel jack smith. today, and indictment was unseed. charging donald j trump with felony violations of our national security laws as well as participating in a conspiracy to obstruct justice. adherence to the rule of law is the bedrock principle of the department of justice in our nation s commitment to the rule of law sits an example for the world. we have one set of laws in this country, and they ve let everyone. the 38 count indictment against trump and his personal and now codefendant walt nauta accuses the former president of 30 accounts of willful retention of national defense information, three counts of withholding or concealing documents in a federal investigation, two counts of false statements, and one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice. according to the indictment the classified documents trump stored in these boxes
machine according to their report. and the 2024 gop field got even bigger. both former vice-president mike pence and the very unpopular former new jersey governor chris christie. i think he left office with about a 14% approval rating in his case now entered the race. we have full analysis of all this straight ahead tonight but we begin with this fox news alert. sources have now confirmed to fox that the doj s special counsel investing former president trump s taking of classified documents has now convened a second grand jury, this one not in dc but in south florida. that would be the same district where mar-a-lago is. and based on what we are hearing, the special counsel is now poiseded to wrap up that probe and there are many reports that charges could, in fact, be eminent. at the very same time, we are learning that an indictment against hunter biden could also be forthcoming, but don t expect hunter s charges to implicate the big guy. this will be all about optics, not a
than most as a former get keeper to the oval office. also tonight, i helped break some new reporting about federal prosecutors now using a second grand jury. this one, in miami, the other one is in washington d. as part of that classified documents probe into the former president. that grand jury has heard testimony from multiple witnesses in recent weeks, i am told, and also is going to hear from another witness tomorrow. all of this investigative action has been centered in washington, so a big question tonight, why now in florida? in a moment you will hear from a former predator prosecutor who said she views this as a really big deal. but first, let us get to the very latest on these developments in these latest stories from cnn s paula reid. paula, obviously when it comes to what is happening here with mark meadows, that is significant. we knew he had been subpoenaed, we knew that he had tried to fight it, but now he has gone and testified. what else have we learned? th