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Us into your home. Big news day. Thank you. Welcome to The Beat. We are tracking the story which is disgusting. We have braeging news on this federal case against Donald Trump which he is still slated to go on trial for. This is a newly unsealed 165page filing. This is from Jack Smith. The reason its a big deal, we knew there was a trial coming slated for after the election. We knew smith had narrowed aspects of this case in response to the supreme Court Ruling on immunity but what we didnt know is the new evidence against defendant trump. There are still some redactions in this for various reasons but there is new information in the filing at the kind of Top End of valuable information that we knew existed but did not have until t ....
Morning. thanks very much. all right. for the full scope of what today s hearing actually means and what consequences it could have, let s bring in former watergate prosecutor and partner at the law firm of dorsy and whitney, nick aker man. thanks so much for helping us work through this. sure. some will put emphasis on the idea that this was not sworn senate testimony. but for purposes of telling the truth or not telling the truth, which is with important in the case of donald trump, jr. because we now have four implicating and evolving statements, depending on how you want to phrase it. does he have to tell the truth? did he have to tell the truth today? oh, he was under an obligation to tell the truth. in fact, lying to government officials, lying to senate investigators is a federal crime. it s a felony that s punishable up to five years in prison. so it is a pretty serious situation. he cannot go in there and just make things up, even though i think he did. and he s been m ....