Live from washington, im paula reid in for jim acosta. You are in the cnn newsroom. Former President Trump is pushing back on the new criminal charges hes facing. The former president took to social media today to deny that Security Footage from maralago was deleted, but thats not what prosecutors have accused here. They allege that he was part of an attempt to delete the footage. Prosecutors say a maralago property manager, Carlos De Oliveira, urged another employee to scrub the footage, saying that, quote, the boss, aka trump, wanted the entire server deleted. De oliveira is accused of lying to investigators about moving classified documents at the resort, and the indictment alleges that the desire to have this footage deleted was all aimed at trying to conceal critical information from investigators. De oliveira is due in federal Court Tomorrow morning. Trump also says that the footage was voluntary handed over. Thats also not true. It was subpoenaed. This weekend, trump has been on
he swears there s no loyalty pledge, but i think the average voter might be suspicious. donors might think it s money well spent. as these legal woes continue to pile up, one question out there is if certain republicans who are not trump are elected, if they would use their power of the pardon or commutation to help him out. i want you to listen to vivek rahm swathy told our kasie hunt on state of the union this morning. i would pardon him. i intend to be our next president, and, yes, i do believe i will move us forward. and, yes, i think one of the right ways to do that is to pardon the former president of the united states from what is clearly a politicized prosecution. so what is your reaction to that because a pardon, of course, clears the entire record and any sentence. you can also commute, which means you still have the record but you don t have to serve jail time. what s your reaction to that? well, i m not surprised that he is saying that he would pardon the former presi