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
Explain the potential issue with the representation of the two who have been charged in the documents case. we mentioned that, valet walt ngata and the property manager, de oliveira, and the i.t. worker who looks to have provided information to prosecutors. right. so it is not unusual for an employer to pay for the legal costs of an employee who getting involved in an investigation. what is so interesting and, frankly, potentially important about the trump situation is when you look at these witnesses, when you look at these trump employees, which are seen as a high-stakes game of chicken, where when prosecutors come to suspect that a person is being more loyal to trump than the truth, then they start pressing them. in some cases, they can essentially bring them over to being a witness. that s what you see happening, why there is a superseding indictment with carlos de