Mara gay. White house editor for politico, sam stein. You saw him on way too early. And the founder of the conservative website, the bulwark, charlie sykes. It is a great group. Thank you for being with us this morning. Well begin the week with the latest on those new charges against former President Donald Trump in the classified documents case. Today, a newly introduced third defendant, the Property Manager at former president s florida home, is scheduled to be arraigned in miami Federal Court. Carlos de oliveira was named in a Superseding Indictment last week and charged in four counts, including conspiracy to obstruct justice and making false statements to the fbi. According to prosecutors, trump directed both de oliveira and his valet, walt nauta, to destroy Security Camera footage last year from the Room Monitoring where boxes of classified documents were being stored at maralago. That alleged order came just days after the fbi issued a subpoena for that same footage. Its unclear
Superseding indictment, it s between de oliveira and a fourth employee who appears to be cooperating, where he says, the boss wants the footage deleted. obviously, what they would like to do is flip mr. de oliveira and have him testify about his conversations with donald trump and if those, in fact, were the conversations, that becomes a devastating witness. but there s reporting that, you know, they brought him in and talked to him under what is known as a proffer, a queen for a day proffer. according to the washington post, they didn t like what he said, and they believe he lied to them, which is why they ve charged him with false statements. he is represented by an attorney who is paid for by donald trump s supe pac. thus far, he is standing firm. it raises a bit of a question about how strong the evidence is here in terms of pinning on mr. trump the conspiracy to delete the footage. we ll have to see if this is all the prosecutors have, jonathan. a conspiracy complete with re