- [announcer] do you have an invention idea but don t know what to do next? call invent help today. they can help you get started with your idea. call now 800-710-0020. welcome ta to inside politics. thank you for sharing a breaking news day with ut. donald trump indicted. the former president call it is a hoax. there are a host of details coming in. another indictment for a trump aid, a change in the legal team, and details about the trump-appointed judge who will oversee this case. plus an admission on tape that is part of the classified documents case. cnn learns trump acknowledged in a 2021 meeting he had secret information and he did not classify it before taking it from the white house. and the political fallout. one calls for trump to get out of the race. another promises to pardon him. trump allies including the speaker of house call baseless and bias an indictment they have not seen or read. we begin with new details of a chapter in our history that has an ub p
of messages and depositions from fox news hosts, senior executives and employees as part of a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit. these documents show the depth of the contempt many at fox news had for the truth and frankly for their own viewers. prime time host laura ingraham blasted the fox news decision desk for something that every other normal reputable news organization in the country values, for being accurate. from the new york times, quote, ms. ingraham said the work of the decision desk was an inside job intended to sabotage conservative hosts like her, quote, we are all officially working for an organization that hates us she fumed. the messages show that host sean hannity responded to that, quote, why would anyone defend that call, referring to the decision desk s highly accurate and early election night projection that president joe biden would go on to win arizona. no, sean and laura were not alone. from the washington post reporting on these new filings, quote
mar-a-lago employee and one that rose through the ranks to the property manager job but then it goes on to describe him as an active participant in what amounts to as a coverup. prosecutor argue that all three were active participants in that trump allegedly the one pulling the strings ordering this to be done. as they referred to him as boss, as spelled out in the dooumt. thank you so much. i guess we have time for one more. sure. so multiple sources are telling cnn that an dooumt in the january 6th investigation could come down at any time next week. what do we know about that? we have been watching this grand jury and the other special counsel investigation overseen by jack smith. and there is no indication from the justice department or the
special counsel that an dooumt is um innocent, but law enforcement officials are planning accordingedly and do believe it could come within the next week. so we re going to keep an eye on this. zachary cohen, thank you so much. with me now to talk more about these new charges, nick alackerman, a former assistant special watergate prosecutor and a former assistant attorney for the southern district of new york. great to see you. trufr was already facing 37 felony counts in this investigation. now it s 40. how significant are these three new charges? extremely csignificant. he s charged in the first indictment of obstructing justice on the first subpoena to produce all classified documents. he s now charged with obstruction of justice on the second subpoena he received for attempting to destroy the video
because the justice department is not unsealed this dooumt, we re relying on good reporting to understand what s at play here. so in it this audio recording, which we reported on last week, the former president is in a meeting at his golf club. in attendance are two aids and two people working on an auto biography for mark meadows. when he says the things i m about to read, he know he s being recorded. he s very frustrated at this time with an article that came out about mark milley. and he says in part, quote, he said i wanted to attack iran. isn t that amazing? i have a pile of papers. this thing just came up. this was him. they presented me this. this is all off the record, but they presented me this. he goes on to say all sorts of stuff. let s see here. i just found isn t this amazing? this wins my case. except it s like highly classified, this is secret information. look at this and acknowledges that he doesn t have the power to declassify.