smith or michigan or arizona where other investigations are being pursued. look at some of his and his allies actions to thwart the election. and yet, it s a very persuasive and convincing argument for his base, that it took all this time to get to this point of bringing charges. the department of justice for about 14 to 16 months, really resisted looking at trump and his allies and their role in trying to overturn the election and trying to thwart the peaceful transfer of power. jack smith, i have to say, i watched a lot of federal investigations, and jack smith s probe has been one of the most meteoric and rapid that i ve ever seen, both on the classified records case, and now what we think is an indictment to follow a target letter some weeks ago.
so donald trump s best case indictment scenario might be something so big that a jury balks at it, the fact that he mentioned the proud boys doesn t mean they hang him on that. versus a very precise, even narrow set of charges on these democracy issues that attach him to the paper trail. that might be the worst thing for defendant trump. it s so important that the prosecutor simplifies. from the target letter, there was this statute that was enacted during the civil war to provide tewells for federal agents to go after groups like the kkk who engaged in terrorism. again, that was from the target letter we referenced. so somebody who may have been watching this, how is this civil rights issue coming up in the middle of an attempt to overturn the election, walk us through that legal rational. it s what i will be looking for after mark meadows.
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it is, millions of people believed donald trump that there was fraud in the election. had justice department officially endorsed that claim, it would have been a disaster. instead, trump appointees inside the doj stopped it, but now the justice department as part of this indictment is alleging that was part of the criminal conspiracy. i also think it s noteworthy, there is a section in here laying out the reasons why donald trump knew that he lost the election. a lot of this is known and has been reported on, but he was briefed by senior officials in his government, including the director of national intelligence and his former attorney general and others, very clearly he lost the election. that s important because they have to prove that in order to make this case. they have to prove this was a knowing fraud by donald trump and they say that they can do that in this indictment. so ari melber is here. something that jumped out to me and i am working this document in real time. but we
so what will happen today is the prosecutor and the defense will learn who the assigned judge is. and so and that s how we will know. i m going to hand it off now to nicolle wallace. andrew, thank you. ryan, appreciate your up-to minute reporting. i m back tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. eastern. deadline: white house starts right now. hey, everybody. i m in again for nicolle wallace. donald trump said it himself, any day now, he s expecting it, we are expecting it. at some point, we ll see. but no official word as of yet on an indictment in special counsel jack smith s investigation into efforts to overturn the results oh of the 2020 election. we are aware that the grand jury heard testimony in this case they have left for the day, and a few minutes later, the special counsel arrived back at his