imagine what it would be like if it happened to you, say, on your job. the boss facing felony charges and prosecutors want to talk to you about what you heard and saw. what would you do? tonight on laura coates lies. you know that saying, if these walls could talk? well, the walls are a talking. and that move the workers at dawn trump s mar-a-lago resort might have seen and heard and what will they say if they are asked. well, federal investigators do not have to imagine what that would be like. cnn learning exclusively that some workers have already spoken to investigators and, in some cases, multiple times, about security at mar-a-lago. or the lack thereof. and how boxes of classified documents were kept there and whether they could have been seen by visitors to the resort. the former president is reacting exactly the way you d expect him to react. if he had ballistic on your bingo card, bravo, you just won because that was indeed his reaction according to a source when t
be. here our democracy didn t have to be here. we didn t have to be in a position where the former president of the united states is not going to be booked like a common criminal, and having mugshots. that is his. fault he didn t. he wanted the spectacle of being president for life. he wanted to not leave office. he wanted to be. this he decided to be king. and now, he is the king of scandal and distribute. i just want to say that coming out of the plane just now, the lady with the frosty here, susie wildes who is a trump campaign manager and also a witness on the bedminster tape, she is apparently writing air trump with the former president and i ve gotta say that as i think about this moment we were here last night at the same desk talking about another indicator in terms of our democracy and that was the republican debate. and i can t get the sort of part, one part two nature of the last 24 hours out of my head. which is last night on state,
more he goes toward the base. and we have already seen this with him. he alienates the big donors he needs to make himself viable and alienates the moderates that you were talking about, the people who were anti trump voters who wanted to go to him and now think that he has been too extreme. so, we are watching this in realtime, but there is not a lot of oxygen on the republican side if you are not donald trump. you know what else there isn t a lot of? time. reed, you have worked on campaigns. what in the world is a going to be like for trump and his team to manage all of these court dates and a campaign? well, you see it s a good question, stephanie, because here s the thing. these campaigns have always been a disaster. his 2016 campaign, though he won, was probably the worst managed campaign in living memory. 2020 was bad. remember, they were basically out of money by october. and this one will be just as bad. now, you ve got people like chris loss of eta and susie wildes who
chris loss of eta and susie wildes who are working to contain the crazy for now. but as you put on the calendar, when we came up from after the break, they now have to dodge the political calendar and the political counter and these two will weave out of each other, not just in terms of timing but also in terms of one another. the politics will come together. they will split apart. but here s the thing too is it s not just for him. every time there is a debate that he doesn t show up for, like we are going to see in milwaukee here in a couple of weeks, the question is going to be, do you support donald do you support donald trump when the 2020 election? do you believe he should be prosecuted? he is everywhere all the time with these people. and so, are they going to have time? they will have time. the question is, are they going to have money? now, i would say this is, he has been paying his lawyers, which is unusual for donald trump. it wouldn t surprise me if he is going to ask f
pop up here and there. we saw in the indictment about bedminster and the writing of a book, and journalists being present, even aipac person like susie wildes. like, it s a kind of stuff we think jack smith would have beaten already? he might. katie, it could be valuable. as what you know, it s for a four b evidence. evidence of the persons common scheme or plan. even if he doesn t charge it, you can use that as evidence to show that trump is very reckless on he handles classified information. so, every piece of evidence brings value. yeah, in that evidentiary rule would allow the prosecution to basically say it wasn t a mistake, right? it wasn t an accident or mistake on the part of trump. it s part of what he does. it s a part of his motive and his modus operandi. barbara mcquade, as always, i appreciate you being here. thank you for joining us this morning. thank you, katie. coming up next, abortion desert. health care workers are warning the accelerating abortion bans