citizens, florida residents who were on that grand jury that there s compelling evidence of had donald trump in florida sought to comply with a lawful subpoena or those documents and even sought to have those attorneys lie for him or remove classified evidence. as you pointed out donald trump is a clear and present danger to the united states, to our constitution, into our democracy. i can t imagine anyone more reckless, to these very important secretly keep everyone safe. our design, help protect our national security, then what donald trump did hear. republicans have of course reverted back to the common refrain, but her emails. very briefly please explain to our audience weather is no legal comparison between what hillary was accused of and trump is accused of. hillary is accused of having a private email server where there is information that later turned out to be classified on
audiotape showing folks these documents and outlining some of our classified information to them just kind of goes to show his disregard for the seriousness in which you should handle that matter. and i think that having heard in his own words are pretty damning and it will be hard for republicans to ignore. and i ve got to ask sarah you resign from your position as deputy press secretary after the january 6th attack and set your former boss is a threat to democracy which i m glad you did and said. but trump was accused of criminal conduct before he became president, while he was president, and obviously since he was president. and i have to ask and i ve asked this to others who worked for trump and have since come out against him, why couldn t you see then when when you work for him what was so clear to the rest of us? and how much regret do you have having worked for this twice impeached now twice indicted man also found liable for
trump, quote, would be the most reckless president in american history. and what we ve learned in recent days in particular makes that that letter of theirs look particularly prescient. prophetic, even. this week donald trump became the first ex president in u.s. history to be indicted on federal criminal charges. in a stunning indictment unsealed on friday the justice department charged trump with 37 felony counts stemming from their investigation into the hundreds of classified documents recovered at his mar-a-lago resort. those charges include 31 counts of violating the espionage act through will for of classified records. trump also faces six other counts for his alleged efforts to impede the investigation. for the first time we got a look at just how sensitive some of these classified documents retained by trump were. according to the indictment included information regarding defense and weapons capabilities and united states and foreign countries. united states nuclear grams,
put everything on pause jack smith would have to narrow down in his indictment typically in a national security case the government the government actually allows the government to have, the defense to have access to information but tightly controls how it s presented in trial. you have to lay down on that petition to reveal some secrets in order to try to sweep the trial alone. last quick question to you, if you are trump s defense lawyer and looking at this transcript of an audio recording in which trump admits he has caused by information, but what you do, what would the defense be? there is no defense here. there s no way you can make an opening statement by his own words being used against him in this where you say mr. former president might vice as attorney and counselor law you need to focus on the and councillor part because you re about to be remembered
as a national security threat it s not just in terms of our intelligence and our secrets and how reckless he has but also the violence that he insights. when you see plans for maga folks to turn up at the courthouse on tuesday to protest trump s arraignment. when you hear prominent trump supporters like kari lake suggesting 75 million republicans with guns will protect trump from the justice system. how worried are you about pro trump violence in the coming days and weeks? very worried about it. the fbi director said that it was actually domestic terrorism that was the greatest threat we face. particularly extreme right and white supremacists, domestic terrorism. and those are the people who form trump s base. you ve gotta ask yourself how stupid is this guy? because here he is calling for exactly the kind of action he called for on january six in an attempt to intimidate the prosecutor who is also prosecuting him for january