grand jury subpoena requests for that footage. according to the indictment, on june 27th 2022, after some phone tag between trump, nauta, and de oliveira walked to the i. t. office at mar-a-lago and requested that he and an unnamed trump employee, the works resorts director of i.t., could talk. well, the two men then went inside a closet and that s when carlos de oliveira told the employee that the conversation should, quote, remain between the two of them and carlos olivia then asked the employee than how long the a believed it was approximately 45 days, give or take. and then in a move, honestly, straight out of a monster movie, carlos olivia told the employee that the boss wanted the server deleted. the employee raised concerns
trump now faces a staggering total of 40 criminal counts in that case, the most serious of which could land him in prison for up to 20 years. now, in that superseding indictment, prosecutors have accused trump, along with his coconspirator walt nauta, and a new third defendant carlos de oliveira, a mar-a-lago maintenance worker attempting to delete surveillance video from the resort. coincidently, just after trump s lawyers received the grand jury subpoena requests for that footage. according to the indictment, on june 27th 2022, after some phone tag between trump, nauta, and de oliveira walked to the i. t. office at mar-a-lago and requested that he and an unnamed trump employee, the works well, the two men then went inside a closet and that s when dela told employees that their conversation should quote, remain between the two of them.
hearings, to the select committee on the january 6th attack. or it could take oversight down a very dark alley, filled with conspiracy theories and disinformation. reporter: now, hallie, plaskett also got into a tense, heated exchange there with jim jordan who s the chair of the panel saying you get more flies with honey than vinegar, but vinegar sounds better in tweets, calling him out for bypassing normal processes you laid out in the top, and the justice department responding to jim jordan s slew of subpoena requests to the education secretary saying this is premature. we will comply in an orderly fashion, pushing back against him, but boy is this a preview of what s to come with a wide range of topics from covid to hunter biden, to the russia probe, to everything you can imagine the last six years. i should note by the way tulsi gabbard, the former democratic candidate, now paid fox news down playing claims that she was
provide information that would under cut an undergoing law enforcement investigation, it s still sure the white house will provide information that james comer wants, one in particular, getting the secret service logs seems unlikely they say they don t keep that information and the secret service did not actively monitor job s house from the middle of 2017 until about 2020 when he became the presumptive democratic nominee so it s not the information there that republicans want but there are other communications they re seeking including from the white house when is indicating that it will talk in good faith with comer about trying to get some information he s seeking on these matters, the question though is if it does not ultimately republicans don t ultimately get what they want, what do they do next? some subpoenas will the white house comply with the subpoena requests or will we so he what were saw with trump years, when democrats battled with the trump administration, went to court
from them, it is also going to be not something that has actual teeth behind it. it doesn t mean that the doj actually has to act. instead, it means the doj is going to make its own decision anyway, but from the perspective of the committee, putting this in the public record was very important. the other piece of it to that i would add is that we now have a better sense of what they are going to do with the republican lawmakers who have ignored their subpoena requests. there were five of them that were ignored those requests. but now we know when we overheard jamie raskin say that they are going to charge four of them and refer them to the ethics committee in the house. that is not a criminal referral, but it is a way of them trying to hold these members accountable, and it sets an important precedent because now the shoe will be on the foot to a fact, the subpoena power now turns to republicans as they have control of this chamber, so that is going to be important to when we see what