Classified documents case going public for the first time, talking exclusively with Cnns Kaitlan Collins about what he says was his role in moving documents, the federal government was trying to find. Also tonight, meet that who uncovered how senator katie britt and misleadingly turned one womans 20 one yearold Sex Trafficking Horror Story into the centerpiece of her indictment of President Bidens Border Policies today. And later, what is wrong with this picture, princess kate and her for kids. She now says she edited herself. But that story is only raising more questions. The royal palace had hoped to quell that evening. Thanks for joining us. We begin tonight. Breaking news that is a cnn exclusive. What the man known as Trump Employee five in the federal classified documents indictment, thinks of the case against his former boss. His name is brian butler, and hes been talking to investigators and now hes talking to the sources Kaitlan Collins, who joins us from miami. So why is he sp
Jake tapper and we start today with Breaking News and a cnn exclusive for the first time the man and only previously known as Employee Number five. In the Trump Federal classified documents case, is publicly going on the record about what he saw Behind The Scenes at maralago and how he ended up handling boxes of classified documents without even knowing it or having the clearance to do so trump Employee Number five is a man named brian butler he has worked at maralago for 20 years. He wasnt just any regular employee. We should note he handled the car service at trumps florida resort. Often directly making sure that donald trump and all of his belongings were moved from place to place, meaning he saw moments and movements and heard conversations that are now part of special counsel jack smiths indictment of Donald Trumps cnns Kaitlan Collins, Katelyn Polantz, our breaking the story for us and joining us now, Kaitlan Collins, it start with you, so you sat down with butler earlier today.
so critical is a verbal one. and it relies on employee number 4. so i won t say that it is a weak point but it is something that clearly the government would want to shore up as much as possible. is this an indictment as much for trump as it is to flip walt nauta? it just seems to me at one point walt nauta s utility has diminished. with this it seems like walt nauta is back in the sea and that there is so much pressure on him that he is on the center of this, and a fishman to carry out trump s plot. do you think, if you are his lawyer, using it is time to talk to the doj? if i were the doj i would want nauta, or de oliveira on the witness stand giving the story, narrating all the documents and all the different things we ve talked about. it s always just much better to have somebody tell the story live. and i actually think what we are seeing here is that there was an attempt to get de
trump, for nauta, for de olivera is potential lengthy jail terms. from jack smith s perspective he must have felt these additional charges were so important that itimato merits the delay it is inevitably going to cause in this case. we know timing was important for him. we know he pushed for a fast trial. he did secure a compromised date from the judge in may. this is going to cause slippage, but it the value in having these additional allegations there s a saying from the watergate era, it s not the crime, it s the cover-up. and you get inevitably with the jury a certain amount of slippage. so you have very powerful a classified document mishandling, wrongful possession charges that go hand in hand with these