she used to be the district attorney of the neighboring county i. want to get her reaction to this. this is something we ve never seen before in the history of american prosecutions. georgia has never seen it, and i just want to get her feeling about what the impact of it is. yeah, i mean, funny willis is not issued an indictment against on trump and he s already using everything at his disposal to undermine her and threatened her. so this is absolutely tara incognito it should not go under noticed or under discussed. i will be watching. thank, you alex. i want to begin tonight with a special word to and about don trump s criminal defenders, all of whom are offered a standing invitation to appear on this program at anytime. all of donald trump s defense lawyers have failed work spectacularly in the representation of donald trump than anything they have ever done in their professional lives because they have all failed at the most basic task, the first task, of a criminal
night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. we begin this evening with the scope of the special counsel jack smith s investigation into donald trump and new signs that it is still growing. the latest revelation that investigators executed a search warrant of donald trump s twitter account and the company had to be held in contempt by a federal judge before handing over the material. here is one former prosecutor on the kind of evidence that they must have been looking for. the twitter files that the justice department wants to retrieve clearly relate to that time period, right around the election. all those materials could be relevant. it s fairly typical for prosecutors to obtain social media from the platforms like twitter, like facebook and others. i think the only reason this is getting so much attention is that they resisted in this case, and it had to go to the appeals court to get timely compliance. but clearly the evidence here that is important to jack s
with his personal aide, walt nauta, and a new defended, mar-a-lago employee carlos de oliveira, with obstruction conspiracy. the new obstruction counter significant, and based on allegations that the defendants attempted to delete surveillance footage at mar-a-lago in the summer of 2022. that third defendant, carlos de oliveira, was maine and supervisor at mar-a-lago. also, trump already faced 31 counts of illegally retaining national defense information. this new indictment as a 32nd to the list. it s related to a recording of the former president and bedminster, where he is discussing classified documents involving iran. well, with milley, let me see that, i ll show you an example. he said that i wanted to attack iran. isn t it amazing? i have a big pile of papers, this thing will just come up. look. this was him. they presented me this. this is off the record. but they presented me this. this was him. this was the defense department and him. this was him. this wasn t d
de oliveira. carlos de oliveira was added as a defendant in the case today in a superseding indictment which added nine new criminal charges, some of which apply only to one of the individual defendants, some of light all of them, and they re all now accused of participating in a conspiracy to obstruct justice directed by donald trump. the new defendant, carlos de oliveira, is a trump employee working in maintenance and on trump s florida residents. the three person conspiracy described in the superseding indictment tried to recruit a fourth person to the conspiracy. they failed. and because they failed, we now know what really happened in donald trump s criminal conspiracy to possess and conceal classified government documents. on page 38 of today s superseding indictment, the purpose of the conspiracy is described. quote, the purpose of the conspiracy was for trump to keep classified documents he had taken with him from the white house and to hide and conceal them from a fe
those are the only three words spoken by donald trump s codefendant walt nauta in miami today in an arraignment hearing that lasted only five minutes. walter replied yes, your honor, when judge edwin torres asked him if he had read the charges against him and consulted with an attorney. the delay in walt nauta s arraignment occur because washington-based attorney, stanley woodward, took three weeks to find a local florida lawyer who would join the defense team as required by florida rules. walt nauta s local florida lawyer is a least experienced lawyer in the case and has never handled high pressure federal litigation. the new york times reports of the 34-year-old lawyer, sasha dadan, his limited experience with the federal courts. her name doesn t appear at all in pace, or the nationwide database federal cases. but she has handled numerous local cases in fort pierce, florida. that is where judge aileen mercedes cannon, who is overseeing mr. trump s prosecution, is based and