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Shoulder to shoulder with them. thank you very much. >> thats special counsel jack smith. the first time weve heard his voice since the special investigation began. in a moment, chris christie joins us. first, the very latest on the indictment. just go into the details on the most damning parts of the indictment. >> prosecutors allege that former president trump intentionally, knowingly, retained hundreds of classified documents. and among these materials were information about u.s. nuclear prog...

Most damning, which talk about how trump purposefully shared documents which he knew were classified, which he shouldnt have been sharing with others, and then 58 to 62, which is the scheme by which he sought to deny the doj these documents. you read those couple of paragraphs, you understand the seriousness of the charges and why jack smith felt the need to indict. >> im glad you mentioned paragraph 3. we have that in a full screen. w i want to read that off the top. it says the classified docu...

Im wondering, this document thats from june of 2020, thats concerning nuclear capabilities of a foreign country. which is number five. what is that? which country? is it iran? is it north korea? why did he care about that. on page 30, number 12, pages of undated documents concerning projected regional military capabilities of a foreign country. what is that? it also has a reference to five eyes, which is the countries we have, the united states has a very important intelligence relationship with...

Former president is due in court on tuesday accused of mishandling classified documents. he is charged with storing top—secret documents in the shower of his resort in florida after leaving public office. mr trump insists he is innocent. here is our north american editor sarah smith. mar—a—lago, donald trumps private club and residence in florida, where he is alleged to have kept classified and top secret documents which could endanger the national security of the united states. the indict...

Said this already on the panel. i mean, indictments and legal documents can be very sleep inducing. this is not. part of it is because it tells the story of exactly what you are talking about, chris. its not just about the overarching, you know, this included information regarding defense and weapons capabilities. wow, thats eye-popping on the second page. the fact that where they are, the hallway leading to the storage room could be reached from multiple outside entrances. its also about, i mea...

Kept classified and top—secret documents which could endanger the national security of the united states. the indictment against mr trump includes photographs of sensitive material being stored on stage in a ballroom, where public events were held. 0ther boxes were kept in a bathroom — you can see them stacked up by the shower. the documents were all removed from the white house when donald trump left office, and they included secrets about americas nuclear weapons, about the military capabi...

Desantis, nikki haley, they put out statements of support, not really for donald trump, but railing against the justice department, and so i think were going to continue to see how this plays out, both for donald trump and his campaign, but also how the republican party itself is reacting to this. victor, amara, back to you. >> alaina, thank you. here with me is cnn national security and political analyst david sanger, and a white house reporter for the associated press. david, in the federal ...

Sensitive, technical capabilities, so they wouldnt give off emissions and be discovered because maybe, somebody got access to these documents. changing plants all of this going on because of a former president. >> its amazing. thanks to both of you for kicking this off. mary mccord is the former acting assistant general for national security at the department of justice and frank the glues is a former assistant director for counter intelligence at the fbi, author of the book, the fbi way inside ...

They regularly call something a national security threat that is simply a public relations threat. so i wonder over the next few days, is this going to be some of what you see from republicans basically saying, the contents of this indictment cant be trusted because we have not yet seen the documents. weve seen a list but we havent seen the documents. it made me wonder will a jury ever see the documents because theyre classified. >> the classification itself is sort of a, per se, establishes tha...

Building. law enforcement, they have had to scramble to come up with a plan for tuesday because they didnt get a heads up this was happening. >> reporter: no, they didnt get a heads up. in fact, on friday, yesterday, law enforcement officials were meeting to try and come up with this security plan. you know, the secret service, its not the first time theyre doing this. they had experience with this in new york city in manhattans criminal court when the former president appeared there, was arrest...