because president trump did nothing wrong and nothing criminal and he s made his case saying that he was entitled to take these positions as president of united states when he saw all of these election discrepancies and irregularities going on. he did what any president was required to do because he took an oath to do exactly that. first, it will be solely focused on the jack smith investigation into the aftermath of the 2020 election. you re also part of the team that was trying to dig into whether others in the press, the former president orbit received target letters that you did but what did you find? well, the bottom line is that the special prosecutor which is really the biting justice department is after donald trump. and that is the focus, they are accusing donald trump of two things, number one that there was some kind of effort to obstruct the january 6th count. the only thing that president trump asked is a pause in the counting so those seven contested states could eith
trump s classified documents case. today a federal judge ordering the trial to start in may of next year, right in the middle of the gop primary calendar. and as a potential trump indictment looms in the other federal investigation into 2020 election interference, trump s newest attorney, john lauro, gave a possible preview of trump s legal team s defense. here it is. there s no need to appear in front of any grand jury right now. president trump did absolutely nothing wrong. he s done nothing criminal, and he s made his case that he was entitled to take these positions as president of the united states when he saw all these election discrepancies and irregularities going on. he did what any president was required to do because he took an oath. senior crime and justice reporter katelyn polantz and correspondent jeff zeleny with us here. i want to get started on the
jury. we didn t expect he would do that, but his lawyer a short time ago weighed in with why he didn t do that. let s take a listen. there s no need to appear in front of a grand jury right now. president trump did absolutely nothing wrong. he s done nothing criminal, and he s made his case that he was entitled to take these positions as president of the united states when he saw all these election discrepancies and irregularities going on. he did what any president was required to do. now, he also said, jim, they re going to make a push to have cameras in the courtroom. as you know there are no cameras in federal court, but regardless of the motivation we re all for a little more transparency. but now that that deadline has passed or tried to go before the grand jury, a potential indictment can come anytime. on the state level trump s legal team is trying again to get the d.a. fani willis thrown off the case. they re really tossing anything at the wall to see what will stick.