Live from washington, im paula reid in for jim acosta. You are in the cnn newsroom. Former President Trump is pushing back on the new criminal charges hes facing. The former president took to social media today to deny that Security Footage from maralago was deleted, but thats not what prosecutors have accused here. They allege that he was part of an attempt to delete the footage. Prosecutors say a maralago property manager, Carlos De Oliveira, urged another employee to scrub the footage, saying that, quote, the boss, aka trump, wanted the entire server deleted. De oliveira is accused of lying to investigators about moving classified documents at the resort, and the indictment alleges that the desire to have this footage deleted was all aimed at trying to conceal critical information from investigators. De oliveira is due in federal Court Tomorrow morning. Trump also says that the footage was voluntary handed over. Thats also not true. It was subpoenaed. This weekend, trump has been on
Against donald trump and get rid of this nightmare . Dude, ive been preaching it for the last six or eight months. I dont know why the party doesnt corral around one of these individuals on the stage to just say, this is the horse thats going to ride us to a brave new world. And they just cant. Because that base, small though it is, hes outsized in the money it produces, and the power it wields. And that, even in a parliamentary system, can overwhelm the system sometimes. Yeah, i was going to say, just look what happened to will hurd. As you said, booed there just for speaking truth to power. On a personal note, michael, i just want to say that its the first time ive seen you in person. Thank you so much for filling in for me a couple of weeks ago, i really appreciate it. The time off i owe you one, my friend. No pleasure, no pleasure. That just took a cold brew youve got it. Next time i see a pint consider it done. Good evening and welcome to ayman. The case against donald trump for t
From all of our colleagues across the networks that nbc news, thank you for staying up, late be good this, weekend and i will see at the end of monday. In a federal court in miami at 10 30 am on monday. And then on Tuesday The Graduate special counsel jack smith has been using in his investigation into trumps attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, that jury is expected to meet again, which could mean more testimony or it could mean a possible indictment. And as much as everyone is and has been holding their breath to see what happens in that investigation, lets be clear that special counsel jack smith took us all by surprise yesterday with a new superseding indictment in the maralago investigation and that new indictment offers a potentially valuable clue about what we might see in smiths other indictment, shouldnt actually happen. All sorts of information in the maralago case seems to come from a witness referred to as Employee Number 2. It alleges that one of the cons
A defiant former president , donald, trump off the Campaign Trail in pennsylvania. Just a few hours, last night in iowa, at this, as he tells one interview, or even prison would not stop his campaign. If if Going Forward right you get these indictments there ends up, youve got a jury in d. C. , you get convicted and sentenced. Does that stop your campaign for president . If you are sentenced . Not at all. There is nothing in the constitution to say that it could and not at all. The former president s remarks coming as he faces mounting legal troubles from special counsel, jack smith, new charges in the classified documents case and a looming Potential Indictment for Election Interference. We will have all the latest developments in just a moment. Also this, our controversial new comments from Supreme Court justice, samuel alito, who says theres Nothing Congress can do to regulate ethics on the high court in the wake of highprofile scandals involving most prominently, himself. New infor
Results of the president ial election. Coming up, well dig deeper into the indictment and the former president s defense. Can trump be charged with lying if he believes what he said was true . The answer may hinge, at least in part, at least on district judge Tanya Chutkan, a vet ran on cases involving january 6th defendants. What members of congress are claiming and will it be a jury of his peers or the electorate who render the final verdict . We begin with tomorrows arraignment in a d. C. Federal court where donald trump will be formally charged for repeatedly spreading lies as part of an elaborate criminal scheme with the ultimate goal to hang on to power by any means necessary. In fact, trump is raising four federal counts including three conspiracy, to defraud the United States, to obstruct an official proceeding and to impede the peoples right to vote. Ever since the news broke, the former president , his allies and attorneys have been working furiously to smear jack smith and t