Ago, a federal judge released the most comprehensive narrative to date of the trial 2020 Election Subversion Case against former president Donald Trump. Its all laid out in a 165 Page Document filed by the Office Of Special Counsel, Jack Smith, as the office plays out a case for the judge in a way that Jack Smith and his lawyers believe would get around the president ial Immunity Protections outlined by the u. S. Supreme court and a Decision Jim made earlier this year. Lets get straight to cnns Paula Reid and paula just to be clear to our viewers, this just dropped a minutes ago, so were all just going over this information, absorbing at trying to determine whats new, whats important you have been reviewing it in the few minutes it dropped what stands out to you at this early hour and take this as an extraordinary filing that was just released to the public. Its enormous like you said, its roughly 170 pages and it is full of redactions were not getting to see everything that the Specia
Pass a specific decided for ive been appointed by numerous Justice Departments to investigate cases and prosecute them if necessary, where there might be a conflict of interests, Molar Being also another recent one elie, i just want you to explain to our viewers when i started reporting from the White House many years ago, there were independent counsel now there are Special Counsels. Whats the difference . Exactly right. So we had a law on the books of federal law from 1978 to 1999, creating the position of independent counsel. And we had a good number of them. The most famous or infamous one of those was Ken Starr in 1999, that law lapsed. It had a legislative sunset that was such backlash over the Clinton Impeachment that congress just said, lets let it die in its place in 1999, arose the current set of Special Counsel regulations. Under those regulations, weve seen robert muller, Jack Smith, robert hurr, david weiss, as kara noted, who has prosecuting Hunter Biden right now. And th
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Investigations, this Move Signals Prosecutors could be nearing the completion of their probe. Theyre looking into whether the Trump Organization misled lenders and Insurance Companies about the value of properties on one side, Inflating Income there, and deflated income to reduce their tax burden. Cnns Senior Legal Affairs correspondent paula reid here to help walk us through all this. Paula, theres a lot we know and dont know. The grand jury has been convened. We dont know what comes out of that. What do we know about the time frame . This grand jury has been impaneled for at least six months. There is a mechanism to extend this. This is an incredibly powerful tool for prosecutors. They can use this to continue to build out their case and test it before a group of randomlyselected citizens, usually up to 23 people. The fact they have convened this grand jury two years into the investigation does suggest that prosecutors believe they have evidence of a crime, and they can use this now
Investigations, this Move Signals Prosecutors could be nearing the completion of their probe. Theyre looking into whether the Trump Organization misled lenders and Insurance Companies about the value of properties on one side, Inflating Income there, and deflated income to reduce their tax burden. Cnns Senior Legal Affairs correspondent paula reid here to help walk us through all this. Paula, theres a lot we know and dont know. The grand jury has been convened. We dont know what comes out of that. What do we know about the time frame . This grand jury has been impaneled for at least six months. There is a mechanism to extend this. This is an incredibly powerful tool for prosecutors. They can use this to continue to build out their case and test it before a group of randomlyselected citizens, usually up to 23 people. The fact they have convened this grand jury two years into the investigation does suggest that prosecutors believe they have evidence of a crime, and they can use this now