documents case leading to additional obstruction counts against the former president. wouldn t it just be refreshing if ron desantis could just admit that teaching the benefits of slavery is a mistake that needs to be corrected? instead he s doubling and tripling down on it and blaming vice president harris for the controversy. i m michael steele in for joy reid, and we begin tonight with what has become abundantly clear. donald trump has met his match with special counsel jack smith. unlike trump who always relies on insults, conspiracy theories, and alternative facts, smith is putting in the hours and doing the hard work to uncover actual facts and evidence. and last night, that due diligence was on display when the special counsel s office issued a superseding indictment in the classified documents case. it added three new charges against trump, one count of
concerns about would there be objections to the government being able to introduce into evidence at trial, that dialogue up at bedminster where trump is referring to a document, the dialogue you played at the top of the show? or would that be ruled by the court to be more prejudicial than probative since the document was not the basis for a charge? guess what, the document is now a basis for a charge. so i think any argument that that audio shouldn t be admissible is going to fail. or if it doesn t fail, if there are successful motions to suppress, those are things that government can appeal. that part of it, to me i could just hear trump thinking that, you know, he s figured it all out. and despite just by transportation, right? right. he creates the nexus that now brings it all together. which, frank, begs the question for me, what is trump thinking at this point in light of all of
se. there was nothing to declassify. these were newspaper stories, magazine stories, and articles. and he even had his lawyers go on tv to call it all a lie. all we know is that in the indictment itself, there was no iran documents named as part of it. just want the american public to realize that. that document that they claim he had was not part of the indictment. it doesn t make sense because it s a lie. it s a ruse. like i said earlier, unlike trump, jack smith doesn t seem to deal in alternative facts. he comes bearing the reteets and has now included that very document that trump and his minions claim doesn t exist to include it in the superseding indictment. as you can see, it indicates that they have actually had the document in question since january 17th, 2022. the same date the very first 15 boxes of documents were delivered from mar-a-lago to the national archives.
nation s law enforcement with all of this on the table, it s about to go through a kind of stress test. whether they can get out in front of something bad happening, find that lone actor, respond to what trump and others around him are maybe doing to instigate potential violence. law enforcement has to get it right every single day. barbara, we ve got a minute left. i want to get your thoughts on an aspect of this, of all these cases, all the prosecutions from the state to the feds that i think could be interesting to watch. trump s reaction. his insistence that he speak to these matters, that he calls out individuals, calling the special prosecutor a name. i can only imagine what he ll start in on the prosecutor in georgia. how should the courts be handling donald trump and his outbursts on social media and in public? it s tricky when you have someone running for president, because they certainly have a
told nauta, de oliveira was loyal and would not do anything to affect his relationship with trump. that to me says a lot. not just so much about whether or not de oliveira was in the game, but there was some interesting concern about whether or not trump could manipulate or use this guy to get his ends met in regards to these documents. how did you read his role here? de oliveira played a significant role are he s a player here. he would not have been charged like this if he wasn t significant to the conspiracy. remember, conspiracies involve two or more people. we ve certainly got that here. i can t help but reminisce back to reading la coasta nostra transcripts for organized crime where the mob certificates will say, is he okay? is he one of ours? yeah, he s one of ours, he s