aed, because they save lives. the response to damar s injury was able to bring our nation together for a moment. let s remember that feeling of unity and use it to make sure we can save the next life, as well. some genuine heroes taking us off the air tonight. i m wishing you a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. we ll see you at the end of tomorrow tomorrow we start tonight with breaking news on your times, interview not don s top donors will plan in law andrea kushner. times reports that in an interview last month the special counsel focused on whether trump had privately acknowledged that he had lost the 2020 election, in other words, when trump claimed the election was rigged, did he know he was lying? did trump have corrupt intent when he allegedly tried to subvert the election? also today, jack smith senior, assistant special counsel, a lawyer named tom windham, was spotted leaving the d.c. federal
pretty happy about that. that is all in on this thursday night good evening, alex chris, i m all in favor of robust transparency in terms of health and everything as it regards our public officials and especially our president it s painful t oh, it s the worst. and in public. it s such a vulnerable moment for anyone that trips. and then the recovery and then it s on stage anyway, it s just it s funny. he gots back air force one ande said i was sandbagged. literally, it was a big sandbag. thank you, my friend, as always. in july of 2021 joe biden had been president for half a year, but the last days of the trump administration were still very much being reported on. the ways in which trump had tried to overturn the 2020 election in an series of escalating maneuvers which ultimately resulted, of course, in thed, attack on the u.s. capitol. so it was during that summer, july of 2021, when the new yorker published this exclusive story. you re going to have a
Counsel smith thinks about, is concerned about, when he thinks about the 2024 presidential election? i think you had it exactly right and you re introductory remarks. there is an election coming up. he wants to get ahead of a cycle he made it very clear in his filing today in the mar-a-lago case. he is also mindful of the fulton county d. a. s investigation. and as you point out, federal prosecutors usually win those turf wars. we were looking at the calendar to, mindful of the clock, this is what we kind of work night and day to get this model prosecution memo, out because i strongly suspect along with my co-authors, based on many, many decades of collective experience, this indictment, if it comes, will be coming in the next, as you say, probably 11 business days. so i think all of that is top of mind for special counsel smith and his team of intrepid prosecutors. danya, let s talk about what is outlined in this magnum
When he allegedly tried to subvert the election? also today, jack smith senior, assistant special counsel, a lawyer named tom windham, was spotted leaving the d.c. federal courthouse with for the second time this week. mr. windham is one of the top prosecutors working on special counsel smith s january six probe. that was a role he played before jack smith was appointed special counsel. this afternoon, mister wyndham was back in court, indicating that the current jury is meeting. with all of these new details, it really does seem like jack smith might be getting that much closer to potentially inditing trump over his actions in and around general sixth. the clock is ticking. fulton county, georgia da fani willis just head to grant juries paneled on tuesday.
One of those two grand juries will be asked whether or not willis should indict trump for his alleged efforts to overturn the 20 election in his state. the first of his grand jury began hearing cases today. federal prosecutors do not exactly love when parallel local investigations outpace their own. they want their evidence and their theory of the case to be the first version that the public hears. so da willis poses a problem for special counsel smith. da willis has signaled she anticipates announcing an indictment, potentially as early as july 31st, that gives special counsel smith 11 business days to make his own announcement, assuming he wants to make it first. that is not the only calendar that jack smith has to worry about. there has been endless speculation about what the upcoming presidential election calendar will mean for smith s prosecutorial decisions. today, we finally heard about the matter for the man himself. earlier this week, in jack smith s other case against trump,