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Human mind of the defendants and glean what his intent was and that is why you are allowed to infer criminal intent from circumstantial evidence from statements a defendant made and there is one more key. statement that to me has always proved donald trumps intent conclusively. when his doj officials and other executive branch agency officials said mister president, there is no fraud. undermining the election results. >> that includes bill barr for example. >> bill barr and richard donahue who h...

Involved in or when its to trumps attempts to dismantle democracy, on thursday the grand jury in washington d.c. her testimony from william russell, that is the sky here. he is a little personal aide and ship director who began working for trump and the white house in early 2020. he remains his aide to this day, notably russell was with trump for at least part of the day on january 6th. you can see he here with trump at the ellipse. where trump gave an incendiary speech shortly before the insurr...

Conspiracy to defraud the united states, these are serious charges. corruptly obstructing an official proceeding, and the civil rights section we just talked about. what are some possible defenses that donald trump could raise, vis-à-vis these particular charges? >> katie, i dont often like to go where im about to go, because people are forever saying that its so hard to prove donald trumps corrupt intent. his criminal state of mind, his guilty mens rhea, i do not agree with that i proved corru...

Sentenced to prison. but to date, the people who organized it, who schemed that up, have not been held accountable and i think that is important that happen. >> let me ask you then more specifically. what criminal charges do you believe that mr. trump should be facing? given the investigation that you conducted? >> well, we referred four matters, obstruction of an official proceeding, conspiracy to defraud the united states, submission of false statements. and incitement to insurrection. the con...

I mean loves our country. we need judges that love our country so they do the right thing. >> subtle, very subtle there mr. trump. meanwhile as donald trump attempts to fend off the documents trial the special counsels prosecutors could be nearing an indictment in their investigation of january 6th. we learned this week that trumps son-in-law, jared kushner recently testified before a federal grand jury in that case. according to the new york times, kushner another close aides were asked whether...

Corrupt intent? how important is it establishing that privately he knew he lost and was still trying to retain power? >> as a legal matter, its not essential, in the sense that even if somehow he thought he won, youre still not allowed to churn out fake electors youre not allowed to pressure the vice president to incite a violent insurrection. t it is tremendously important for persuading the jury, and as you talked about earlier, persuading the american people that it is an appropriate prosecut...

Hi, laura. >> im surprised he forgot about that moment. because we are still wondering what the heck happened in helsinki. a lot has gone on since then. >> you think? how much time you got? kaitlan, thank you so much for a good evening, everyone. i am lara coates. did donald trump privately admit that he lost the election? tonight, we are running the special counsel that very question to his inner circle. trump setting a cappella with jared kushner, hope hicks, they have not testified before the...

Interpretation available of those terms. so it is a pretty good case made there, this qualifies as an insurrection. that is something that would have to be litigated. i think there are issues around proof of the then presidents mental state. >> that is what i went to get to also, danya. we know that jared kushner has testified whether the president had corrupt intent, whether he knew he was lying around his claims that the election was stolen. other people have testified who are members of the i...

In my view and that of my coauthors. >> dave, it reminds me of the bedminster tape. that the prosecution did not charge trump on. they did not charge him on dissemination. just having the tape of trump acknowledging the classified information was not his didnt follow, and potentially waving around classified documents in front of people without security clearance. in the court of public opinion, that meadows, right? that is the kind of evidence the public needs to understand just how wrong the b...

The election was stolen. there are other people that have testified, members of the inner circle in the trump administration. how much does it matter that the prosecutors can show he had corrupt intent? >> as we analyzed in the prosecution memo, if the prosecutor brings a very narrow charge, in some way it matters not at all. if the prosecution can show that mr. trump was aware, for example, that the slate of electoral certificates that was submitted to congress was false, that could be enough i...