Documents indictment, things have the case against his former boss, his name is brian butler, and hes been talking to investigators and now hes talking to the sources Kaitlan Collins, who joins us its from miami. So why is he speaking out now . Kaitlyn well, anderson, in part because hes worried that americans and voters will never get to hear this story before the election in november. Obviously, trumps legal team has sought this strategy of delay, delay, delay, especially when it comes to the classified documents case. And so this witness, someone and who was a longtime employee at maralago for 20 years is now speaking out publicly because of a concern that that it may not come to light. I mean, donald trump has repeatedly called this investigation a witch hunt. Brian butler, who until now was known only as trump employee number five, is now saying that he disagrees with that. He doesnt believe its a witchhunt and he was able to provide key testimony to the special counsel, jack smit
Jake tapper and we start today with Breaking News and a cnn exclusive for the first time the man and only previously known as Employee Number five. In the Trump Federal classified documents case, is publicly going on the record about what he saw Behind The Scenes at maralago and how he ended up handling boxes of classified documents without even knowing it or having the clearance to do so trump Employee Number five is a man named brian butler he has worked at maralago for 20 years. He wasnt just any regular employee. We should note he handled the car service at trumps florida resort. Often directly making sure that donald trump and all of his belongings were moved from place to place, meaning he saw moments and movements and heard conversations that are now part of special counsel jack smiths indictment of Donald Trumps cnns Kaitlan Collins, Katelyn Polantz, our breaking the story for us and joining us now, Kaitlan Collins, it start with you, so you sat down with butler earlier today.
Charles allen wri Stephen Vladek holds the charles rent university of texas published in the New York Times Los Angeles Times he has argued before the Circuit Court that speaks in and of itself and the Supreme Court analystt in 2013 and steven livs in austin texas. I will hand it over to them. [applause] good evening. Stephen vladek a hero in his own town and its great to be here. The first thing i want to ask is will move this conversation. There is still time. I think 20 minutes of silence is about right for a book about the supremed court decisions. It has gone better than last night actually. Are you sure you dont want to just talk about ken paxton . [applause] for an hour. I [applause] yeah. If you have not seen her for the book its terrific and thats up to it andth the book itself is e right book for this moment when its so much in the news and on our minds and well talk a lot about the Supreme Court today in the context of this book lets begin by talking about the book in defini
Joins us from miami. So why is he speaking out now kaitlan . Well, anderson, in part because hes worried that americans and voters will never get to hear this story before the election in november. Obviously, trumps legal team has sought this strategy of delay, delay, delay, especially when it comes to the classified documents case. And so this witness, someone who was a longtime employee at maralago for 20 years, is now speaking out publicly because of a concern that that it may not come to light. I mean, donald trump has repeatedly called this investigation a witch hunt. Brian butler, who until now was known only as Trump Employee number five, is now saying that he disagrees with that. He doesnt believe its a witchhunt and he was able to provide key testimony to the special counsel, jack smith here, including about key moments, including one where walt nauta, who is trumps body man, turned codefendant, asked him to help load boxes onto a plane that was bound for trumps club in new je
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