development here, as we know, as katelyn polantz and i have indicated, prosecutors obtained this audio recording of former president trump, he s at a meeting at his bedminster property, and he suggests that he is still in possession of a classified document. now one thing that we couldn t understand from the first document is why he was not charged with retaining that document. there are questions about whether the investigators had it, if the former president s lawyers obtained it. what s interesting is in this indictment that is specifically charged on page 17. they say that that document they re referring to, the one he references in that recording, is the one that was possessed by him and shown on july 21st, 2021, is charged as count 32, so that s now the last document that s listed here. and it describes it as being a top secret and presenting information concerning military activity in a foreign country. that really fills in something that we ve been wondering about
was an actual classified document he was showing or whether he was just puffing or exaggerating and as cates was said it was not true. the document donald trumpness showing these people with zero security clearance was an actual highly classified document that had to do with war plans, and we know doj has that document. they ve now added a charge against donald trump. and why this is so important is because this is the one incident in the whole indictment where donald trump most flagrantly disacceptnates the information. where it s not just sitting in boxes in his bathroom or on the stage at mar-a-lago, which is bad, which is potentially criminal, but it s the one most flagrant incident where he s taking that information and giving it to somebody. that s why it s such an important and dangerous moment in this case. certainly is. kristen holmes, i know you re getting new reporting on trump s relationship with carlos de la vera, his new co-defendant in this case. reporter: that s rig
kaitlan collins has been working her sources. you re getting more information. what are you hearing? we re trying to figure out more. information about carlos has been added. he used to park cars at mar-a-lago. an aide who works there and has odd jobs that he did. there were questions when the trump indictment on this came down if he would be named as a co-defendant. what they found. i don t think it was totally clear what was going to look like. when it came out, we had conversations with trump s legal team about whether or not he was someone who would be named and why he would not be named. he was questioned extensively by investigators here just as walt nauta was and other employees at mar-a-lago. they questioned everyone at mar-a-lago. but carlos was one of them because he had conversations with walt nauta about moving boxes. he was the one who put fitte members of jay bratt, other doj prosecutors, came down and told the trump team to secure the room further.
question questions, right, that emerges from adding carlos in this is the role of the former president. you know, the thing that looms large in all of this is was the obstructive behavior certainly what walt nauta s being accused of, all of it is tied back to the former president. that he orchestrated the obstruction by these people. and so the question that remains is, you know, is there new information that emerged following the earlier charges that allowed them to to bring these new charges against carlos de la vera and what is that. because again, as katelyn polantz pointed out, there was the reporting of a new target letter against someone we never knew exactly who it was. we suspected it was carlos de la r vera, but it makes sense. so one of the things that i think we will be looking for in
for a while. because there were questions about whether he had a classified document, if he was embellishing, posturing. then there were questions about whether the former president s legal team was able to find it and hand it over. so that s another really notable development in this new indictment. and it makes it clear these documents were not just confidential information or even secret information. they were top-secret information, sci, sensitive compartment information, the highest category of classified information. remember the criteria here. it has to be information that is sensitive to the sense that it would be helpful to those who wish to do us harm, and something that we do not want our allies to know that we have revealed. we keep it close to the vest in some respects. some of the most stunning developments in this new indictment go right to the heart of why carlos de la vera is actually considered a co-conspirator. part of it lays out what the conduct was after trump