i must nbc legal analyst weinstein. she is a former prosecutor and once clerk for merrick garland. and an assistant former watergate prosecutor and assistant attorney for the southern district of new york and date ehrenberg, i feel comparatively under educated among this panel with these illustrious guests. i want to start with the mug shots. i m going to start i m going to start with you, nick. let me tell you something, i have some really cute beauty shots of myself and i would think if i ever found myself in some sort of legal problem i would like to send them a beauty shot of me and have me
frequently as a contributor. outfront now, former trump white house press secretary, and the former assistant special watergate prosecutor. ryan goodman, the former special counsel at the department of defense. thanks very much to all of you. ryan, let me start with the very basics here. trump being informed that he s a target of the investigation. obviously it s i know people are saying, okay, sure, we knew that. but we didn t know that formally. he didn t know that formally. how significant is this step procedurally? we both thought that that is the case and it s the reason we re having a special counsel because he was investigating matters at the heart of donald trump. but it was never stated explicitly because it could just be that he thinks there s criminal conduct of classified documents being at mar-a-lago, but who is the target? the timing of it is suspicious. the fact that he is being told that he is the target at the end of the investigation. there s no way he wants to
on what he called the documents hoax that on any other investigation, and again we are at a place where we have started to see movement. in that case, where many legal legal experts believe that it is coming to a head. okay christian homes. thank you very much for the reporting. here with me tonight . we have cnn political commentator karen finney, watergate prosecutor nick akerman, founder of mo news motion, when your new host of conversations with coleman podcast comment hughes and also joining us attorney john sale who turned down an offer to join the trump legal team on the mar-a-lago documents case, guys great to have all of you here tonight with us to figure out what happened today and what we saw nick let me start with you. now that you have seen the indictment is that a strong or weak case looks to me like a very strong case in the fact that it goes through. you ve got two witnesses. you ve got michael cohen and you ve got david pecker at a minimum. you ve got lots of documents
the new indictment. alison okay , caitlin carroll. we should remind everyone that you broke this story for cnn tonight. really appreciate both of your reporting. thank you very much for of that. all right. i want to bring in now. our panel. we have cnn legal analyst jennifer rogers, a former assistant, u s attorney also with us. nick akerman, former assistant special watergate prosecutor, and john miller, cnn s chief law enforcement and intelligence analysts, guys. thank you very much for being here with us on this special coverage tonight, nick. i ve spoken to you many times on this program, and you always felt confident that this was going to happen. question about it. i mean, exactly, we re not confident on is exactly what those charges are going to be. we know that the stand the daniels hush payments are part of this. the stormy daniels payments, but we don t know if there s more to it if there s more to it about falsification of records in the trump organization, particularly in l
that the grand jury activity has been quite intense lately that they also are bringing in witnesses and have very high end witnesses. people very close to the former president coming in. so it s a lot of different things that the former president and his lawyers are fielding right now. not just this travel to new york to face the new indictment. alison okay, caitlin carroll. we should remind everyone that you broke this story for cnn tonight. we really appreciate both of your reporting. thank you very much for of that. all right. i want to bring in now. our panel we have cnn legal analyst jennifer rogers, a former assistant, u s attorney also with us nick akerman, former assistant special watergate prosecutor, and john miller, cnn s chief law enforcement and intelligence analysts, guys. thank you very much for being here with us on this special coverage tonight, nick. i ve spoken to you many times on this program, and you always felt confident that this was going to happen. question ab