you. in my administration, i m auoin to you. in my administration, i m going to enforce you. in my administration, i m going to enforce all you. in my administration, i m going to enforce all laws - going to enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified information. no one will be above the law. in classified information. no-one will be above the law.- will be above the law. in fact, those comments will be above the law. in fact, those comments were - will be above the law. in fact, | those comments were actually directly cited in that indictment. joe, why include them? do they carry any legal way to? them? do they carry any legal wa to? ~ ., ., ., way to? well i mean in addition to what you way to? well i mean in addition to what you played, way to? well i mean in addition to what you played, they - way to? well i mean in addition to what you played, they were l to what you played, they were also to what you played, they were also guotes to what you played, the
federal charges against a us president. and it comes as trump is currently the front runner to be the republican nominee for the 2024 presidential election. today s indictment is for 37 counts involving classified documents. it alleges he kept the files at his florida estate and lied to investigators. trump is also accused of obstructing the investigation into the handling of the documents. he has denied any wrong doing. one of trump s personal aides, walt nauter, is also facing charges, accused of moving files to hide them from the fbi. the a9 page indictment says the classified documents contained information about us nuclear programmes, defence and weapons capabilities of the us and foreign countries, potential vulnerabilities of the us and its allies, and plans for possible retailation in response to a foreign attack. our north america correspondent nomia iqbal has the latest from miami.
documents in a shower, - on that point, on those images we saw, some really extraordinary ones, we re talking about boxes in bathrooms, showers, ballrooms, and that was really laid out clearly in this indictment. sarah, what do you think that means for this case? this is going to be an uphill battle for trump and his legal team. what is set forth in the indictment is evidence that is hard to refute. trump s legal team can fight the accounts by witnesses and fight their testimony. it s hard to refute recordings and photographs and text messages. that kind of evidence is difficult to overcome, that s why, i m sure, the department ofjustice included it here, and it certainly captured our attention and i m sure trump s
going to give you several extra days. this was on a thursday. i m going to give you until sunday evening to tell me if he wants to testify. and if he wants to testify, he can come in and testify. thejudge really went out of his way to make sure trump s rights were protected again. with the caveat i wasn t in the courtroom and i haven t read the transcript, i don t see anything that would raise any big red flags here. as andrew said he practiced in new york and i practiced most of my time in d.c. when i was a prosecutor this is a very, very well respected judge with a lot of experience. just picking up on and i thank you for drawing our equal focus to the defamation findings and an award. do you think there s any declarations going on? donald trump defames in costco sized batches of defamatory statements, and the majority of them are in writing. i remember robert mueller investigated trump s tweets as
and when he knew it, but i would assume that doj will be asking all those questions and i m confident that the former vice president will answer. we were unable to talk to him, to question him i think you d start probably in april when the former president publicly questioned whether he would adhere to it and just go forward. he talked to easteastman, to ot. and the call that he had with the ex-president morning of the 6th will be enlightening i m sure and also permitted under the court ruling so we ll learn a lot i think from what he says to the doj and just one of the four crimes that the committee referred the obstruction of an official proceeding, i m sure trump s intent has laid bare to mike pence made this morning when he reportedly called him