it s march 31, 2023. we are reporting on the first filing in the prosecution of former president donald trump. you may not have seen this yet it s new it s formalized by a court document that lists this case for the first time, the people of the state of new york versus donald j. trump, defendant what you see on your screen we have highlighted the key word there is actually a first for all of mr. trump s legal scuffles and civil cases, which end in payments, not prison, even if you lose this is the first time he has been on the other side of the government the people of the state of new york versus this criminal defendant. we have this new order from a judge. it marks the formal opening of this case file it notes the indictment which is called a true bill you see that there it was returned by the grand jury think of the words true bill as equivalent legally to indictment or charges under that piece of legal terminology or jargon, we learn there is a true bill, there are
hello everyone, it is 4:00 in new york on a big newsday, just got a rare and unique and potentially alarming look into judicial process that is typically shrouded in secrecy and one that has been characterized as potentially the most damaging to the twice impeached, disgraced ex- president right now, of course the special grand jury investigation in fulton county, georgia, yesterday in a very revealing interview with our own blaine alexander, the juries for woman spoke out about the months long investigation and confirmed that the jury recommended indictments for multiple people. while she did not disclose specific names, she gave some pretty telling hints. i will tell you it is not a shortlist. we saw 75 people, and 6 pages of the report cut out, i think, if you look at the page numbers. so it s not we are talking about more than a dozen people? bigger i would say that, yes. did the grand jury recommend an indictment of former president trump? bigger i m not goi
familiar with the matter shows for the first time just how focused the investigation has been on trump himself. the doj itself is not commenting, but one of the reporters who broke the story was on morning joe discussing how recent grand jury testimony led to these new revelations. the questions that individuals are receiving are overwhelmingly again and again about what did donald trump say, what did donald trump do, then what did donald trump say to the vice president, then what did donald trump ask his lawyers to do for him. and administration official familiar with the investigation tells nbc that while it s correct the doj is looking into trump s actions, there s no criminal investigation of him specifically. what the post reports is that the doj investigation now appears focused on two tracks, the first a seditious conspiracy and conspiracy to obstruct a government proceeding, the second is potential fraud corrected to the effort to submit fake electors. and on th
ax d.a. has taken into consideration. there s second guessing about d.a. bragg and making the conclusion to bring this before a grand jury and then the grand jury making the decision, gefgeiven everything we know trump announced his candidacy. he has been running a campaign, et cetera. and yet the political system sort of got stuck on that back in november. that freezes everything. the judicial system was like, no, it doesn t there are crimes here that we need to see whether or not they are actionable to the level where a jury of new yorkers in this case in a grand jury setting would bring about an indictment we re going to see these processes, i think, play themselves out in a very interesting way. i would only caution, if you get confused and you get disoriented, tune in at 6:00
but i think that this subpoena has been issued and shows the special counsel is serious about this, and i think the drilling down that will occur in a grand jury setting is likely to be effective. so much of what the committee did with less tools that it s the disposal that jack smith has, is to get it, the intent by proving knowledge of defeat, evocative, if nothing else, did that quite effectively, saw the election the same way bill barr did, that she had lost, the times reporting reminds us that she went with her father to the ellipse, she may not remember what happened on the ellipse an hour before a deadly insurrection at the u.s. capitol, seems like a weird thing to forget, she s a young woman, i remember every moment of the day, speak to her specifically as a fact witness in the room for both her father