18 others, including his then chief of staff, mark meadows, and his lawyer, rudy giuliani, have also been indicted. Mr trump has denied wrongdoing and has described the investigation as politically motivated. Its the fourth criminal case to be brought against him since he left office. Lets take a listen to what Fulton County District Attorney fani willis said a short time ago. The indictment alleges that rather than abide by georgia was Mike Whittall process for election challenges, defendants engaged in a Criminal Racketeering Enterprise to overturn georgias president ial election result. Subsequent to the indictment, as is the normal process in georgia law, The Grand Jury issued Arrest Warrants for those who are charged. I am giving the defendants the opportunity to voluntarily surrender no later than noon on friday the 25th day of august, 2023. Earlier, Donald Trumps campaign issued a statement. Lets speak now to sean dilley, our North America correspondent, live from washington, dc
Operation from rescue to recovery. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Wolf blitzer is on assignment. Youre in the situation room. Cnn reporting on the Special Counsels investigation into donald trump. The former president s attorneys subpoenaed for a classified document that trump discussed on an audiotape but are unable to find. Our correspondent paula reed is joining with us the details. Tell us what you are learning. Reporter we have learned back in march, trumps lawyers received this subpoena from the Special Counsel. This was the first time the legal team learned about that meeting in 2021 was trump referenced that classified document in that tape. Lawyers were not able to find the document trump describes in that reporting. Its unclear at this point if the government has it at all. Mr. President , why did you take classified documents concerning General Milley . Reporter cnn reporting that donald trump served with a subpoena in mid march, seeki
operation from rescue to recovery. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is on assignment. you re in the situation room. cnn reporting on the special counsel s investigation into donald trump. the former president s attorneys subpoenaed for a classified document that trump discussed on an audiotape but are unable to find. our correspondent paula reed is joining with us the details. tell us what you are learning. reporter: we have learned back in march, trump s lawyers received this subpoena from the special counsel. this was the first time the legal team learned about that meeting in 2021 was trump referenced that classified document in that tape. lawyers were not able to find the document trump describes in that reporting. it s unclear at this point if the government has it at all. mr. president, why did you take classified documents concerning general milley? reporter: cnn reporting that donald trump served with a subp
the review that i hope we will be finished with soon. there will be more detail that time. coming as the new sent letters to the white house counsel s office and national archives trying to get information on biden s handling of classified documents. i want to bring in senior political columnist, a political, jonathan martin. and cnn political commentator, carl finney, and david irvine is with us as well. i m glad to have you all here, what are you thinking right now? because look. this is not the news or the way i think president biden wanted to start the new year or the new congress. i am sure there was a bit of rumbling, and the dysfunction that was happening with the republicans, last, week with the speakers vote. but, the fact of the matter is, he s got to contend with this. what do you take out of it? well, two things, one is the circumstances are different and obviously his folks called when they realize they had classified documents there, which is the right thing
office. i do not know what is in the documents. my lawyers have not suggested i ask what documents they are. they turned over the boxes to the archives and we are cooperating fully. with the review and i hope that is finished soon. there will be more details at that time. this is coming as the new house oversight chairman sent letters to the white house counsel s office and national archives trying to get information on biden s handling of classified documents. i want to bring in jonathan martin as well as karen and david. i am glad to have you here. we begin with you jonathan. this is not the news president biden wanted to start the new year. there is a bit of dysfunction with the speaker both but the fact of the matter is he needs to contend with it. what is your take? the circumstances are different, obviously his folks called when they realized they had classified documents there and also biden is not his best defender. obviously this will create a challenge for him.