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Indicted in the classified documents case. new york times justice department reporter katie benner is with us. katie, good to see you. do you expect we would hear from merrick garland from jack smith about this new target letter? and, if so, when? we re not going to hear from jack smith, we re not going to hear from merrick garland. the justice department officials like to let their court documents do the talking. i suspect the first we re going to hear from the justice department regarding why donald trump is considered a target will be if donald trump is indicted, and it will be within the pages of the indictment. so you ve reported extensively on this investigation and on how reluctant garland was to even name a special counsel in the first place because he wanted to show doj operates outside of any political pressures, but with the charging decision potentially coming soon, is the department ready to navigate the massively partisan reaction that ....
This is the courthouse in fort pierce, florida, where a critically important hearing is going on right now, on one side you have prosecutors from jack smith s office, on the other, donald trump and walt nauta. two things judge cannon is looking at. one, the timing of the trial, will it be before or after the 2024 election, and how will they handle the classified documents? folks have been in there for more than 50 minutes. we haven t had our producer or reporter coming out. we will bring you up to date on what decisions might have been made there. in the meantime, note this, the world found out former president donald trump is the target of jack smith s investigation into january 6th from trump himself, not the special counsel, not the attorney general, but from the man at the center of the investigation. just as he did when he was ....
If you re a republican, especially a trump ally, you re saying this is an example of politicization and weaponization of the government against the former president. if you re a democrat, you re saying this is simply law enforcement following the facts of their investigation. watch. former president trump has done repeatedly things that call upon law enforcement and everyone to look at what he s done. and because so much of it is certainly questionable at best and illegal at worst. the indictment doesn t necessarily do anything. you can indict anybody. is that concerning about his viability as a candidate? every time they indict him, his numbers go up. so, no. reporter: and look what congressman brewcette is saying ....
Donald trump thinks that s the case. we know the target letter was sent, law enforcement official have is confirmed that. i don t suppose we know for certain whether the time line that it lays out is accurate. but according to mr. trump, he says he had four days from receipt of this letter to come and testify before the grand jury and basically tell his side of the story. that puts us at the end of this week. and it suggests that this investigation is all but done with if you were at the point where you know you want to bring the target in to hear what he or she has to say and make your decision after that. donald trump has tried in some form to scoop his run-ins with law enforcement. he missed the mark by a week or two in new york and waited until he was actually informed he was going to be indicted on the classified documents case in this particular instance he s given himself a runway. the likelihood he will be ....
Indicted end of this week or early next. we are told he got the letter on sunday. any indication why he revealed this today, garrett? reporter: i can only speculate about that. it has done an effective job of squashing an announcement by ron desantis about his military plans and his interview with cnn which for desantis, who has avoided mainstream non-fox news was a big deal to him. look, you cannot separate the legal from the political when it comes to donald trump. whether it was purely legal or political, i can t say. there are certainly political benefits to announcing it today, dominating coverage today on a day he s basically trying to choke off oxygen for his leading rival for the nomination. what a strange world we re living in that announcing you re the target of a federal investigation is good politically for you and will ....