Our special breaking News Coverage continues now of the third, he has a third, criminal indictment of former President Donald Trump. Im laura coates. Remember. Not the news tonight, still stunning, even though people expect an indictment to come right now it is here. We have believed it sink in. The 45th president indicted by a grand jury and jack smiths investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. And its not lost on anyone that, while trump is facing charges over the last election, he is, of course, in the middle of his reelection campaign, flora. This is the third time, the third time that donald trump has been criminally indicted informants at this point . Special counsel jack smith charged him in the classified documents probe in june, and the Manhattan Grand Jury charge of the former president for Business Fraud back in march and just listen to what Special Counsel jack smith had to say tonight. The attack on our nations capital, on january six 2021, was an unprecede
Notes to the doj. how big of a role do you think of these notes could play? well there are those notes, and remember richard donahue who has the notes of what trump said, just say it as corrupt and leave it to me and the republican congressman, which is mentioned in the indictment, but not referred to in the notes. notes, contemporaneous notes are very powerful cooperation when a defendant, a defense council tries to undermine the credibility of a witness because you have realtime recording of what the individual side. and, so, it is another element of proof because the corroborates and build credibility for what the witness said. but, erin, you pointed out one thing that jumped out at me, which was that conversation about foreign affairs international security issues, unrelated to the election. when donald trump says, 17 days