That you read. Moat notably given the chance to avoid prosecution, mr. Trump allegedly did the opposite. According to the indictment, he not only refused to return the documents for many months but he also obstructed justice by enlisting others to destroy evidence and to lie about it. You may stop there. Thank you, you mentioned the indictment against mr. Trump for mishandling classified sensitive security information. That indictment says tend of his presidency, mr. Trump im looking for my indictment here i have it here. Mr. Trump himself ordered that boxes containing classified materials go to maralago. Where he hosted Tens Of Thousands of guests. Then he kept the sensitive materials carelessly about the property as you can see here. Classified documents ended up in a bathroom. A ball room, on a floor strewn about. And when a grand jury subpoenaed the documents, what did donald trump do . The indictment again shows against him what he responded by. Suggesting that his attorney falsel
Rib. Well, its your reports. I think it actually is more fitting that you read those most notably after being given multiple chances to return classified documents and avoid prosecution, mr. Trump allegedly did the opposite you going according to the indictment, he not only refused to return the documents for many months, but he also obstructed justice by enlisting others to destroy evidence and then to lie about it. You may stop there. Thank you. You mentioned the indictment against mr. Trump for mishandling sensitive classified National Security information. That indictment says at the end of his presidency, mr. Trump, im looking for my indictment here. I have it here mr. Trump himself ordered that boxes containing classified materials go to maralago where he hosted Tens Of Thousands of guests. Then he kept these sensitive materials carelessly about the property as you can see here, classified documents ended up in a bathroom, a ballroom on a floor spoon about and when a grand jury s
One of lifes most underappreciated talents is to know when its time to move on to lifes next chapter. So i stand before you today, mr president and my colleagues, to say this will be my last term as republican leader of the senate. For more on both mcconnell s stepping down and the spending deal, heres our North America correspondent gary odonoghue. After repeated attempts to get a spending agreement, it does look like leadership in congress from both sides have at least reached a partial agreement on some of the Spending Bills that they have been arguing about. It looks now in the next couple of days that resolutions were put through both the senate and the House Of Representatives to extend one of the deadlines until next friday, by which time they will pass Spending Bills on six separate departments. Now, they havent reached an agreement on the other six departments, but they are going to push the deadline for that back until march 22. So in some ways, this is progress being made, i
our top story tonight is a brand new filing by special counsel jack smith. you can see it right here in this paperwork. you can see what they re talking about which is evidence, what lawyers call discovery material. this kind of filing reminds donald trump and his evolving team of lawyers they re on a collision course with jack smith s aggressive office, barreling towards a trial slated to start in august. that could be delight, but only by rulings. it s not a timeline that donald trump s team controls. so they re headed towards that. this filing that we just got outlines the new evidence that donald trump s team will get. that includes interviews of defendant trump conduct bid non-government entities obtained by the special counsel s office. the key word here is interviews, plural, because even in this sparse word we got new information. it means smith has at least one more recording of trump beyond the one we knew about, the one that made news, that was also featured in the
campaigning for president even if he were convicted. now, that is not entirely shocking to be honest. trump never admitted defeat after losing the election in the 2020 election. he s not going to tap out of the 2024 race when it s just getting started. but there s more to this move. it s not about politics. it has a bigger strategy at its core. as axios explains, the 2024 campaign is more than a race to return to the white house. this is a fight to stay out of prison. legal experts believe it s unlikely trump s criminal trial will be resolved before the 2024 election, so whoever wins the presidency could be in a position to influence trump s case, and if trump is the gop nominee, he could essentially be campaigning for his freedom, an unprecedented scenario in this country. according to axios, winning the presidency would give a chance for sympathy or even pardon himself if convicted. his political rivals trying to beat trump, they have signaled they would pardon him or bring