railroaded. the rest of the field they think trump is being railroaded and the justice system to use phrase that gets used every day on the trail weaponized. i think a lot of candidates who are not chris christie are going to take that question and turn it into something else. politics reporter for semafor, thank you for starting us off this morning. of course we re following a major new development in the classified documents case. a key witness against former president donald trump and his two codefendants has now retracted previous false testimony and has proved or provided rather incriminating information about defendants after switching lawyers. in a new court filing by special counsel jack smith yucil taveras
coconspirator, and then maybe three witnesses whose may be called to testify at trial in the case. he used to represent yucil taveras who s a primary star witness at this point. do you think sam woodward has too many clients and may be conflicted here? you know, that is a relatively standard motion in multi-defendant cases. in the second circuit it s a motion where it s not necessarily used to conflict an attorney out but rather to make sure if there are conflicts that the defendants fully understand those conflicts and knowingly waive them. for example, in this case walt will be asked by the federal judge do you understand that any confidential information that mr. woodward got from mr. taveras, he ll not be able to use that to cross examine it, and do you still want to be represented by somebody who is essentially handcuffed from
tell us what we know. we know that trump employee 4 is a gentleman named yucil taveras who worked for the trump organization and specifically at mar-a-lago. we also know from reporting nbc news has not independently confirmed that yucil taveras received a target letter. and we know that yucil taveras as trump employee 4 likely provided prosecutors with information directly incorporated into this superseding indictment. if it were not for yucil taveras prosecutors would not know for example de oliveira went to him and essentially said the boss wants the footage deleted. that comes from a witness mouth. in my piece i describe how without independently confirming yucil taveras received a target
letter, there are signs all along that yucil taveras having received that target letter and seen the initial indictment against trump and walt nauta decided he had what to provide to prosecutors. we do know he s an extremely valuable witness without whom the details then superseding indictment would not have been known. and nauta continues to follow the former president around the country for his campaign. but, lisa, you know, there s a lot of speculation that today could be the day for the indictment of donald trump in what has been short-handed as the january 6th investigation, which of course includes all his actions after the 2020 election, and we should note we don t know for sure it s today or it would come this week, but as soon as that target letter was sent, the clock started ticking. walk us through what today would look like for this grand jury in
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