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has just happened tonight for the first time ever, former president of the united states has been indicted by a federal grand jury. donald john trump charged with seven counts in the classified documents case. this is a special edition from new york. im anderson cooper. >> here in washington, im kaitlan collins. in keeping with his reality tv roots, the former president preempted any justice department announcement of the charges against him in a series of posts on his social media net...

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pleads guilty admitting he conspired with the former trump company to not pay taxes and now he will testify against the trump organization. sue craig, "the new york times" reporter who has led the reporting on trumps finances is here in the studio tonight. and the biden cabinet, dispatched to take the presidents case to republicans and fox news. transportation secretary pete buttigieg joins us live. but first, we start in september of 2015. donald trump was three months removed f...

reported on the air. this was a copy of the actual warrant that was released, the search and seizure warrant of mar-a-largo that took place monday down in palm beach, florida. i want to go over highlight. we have a graphic to put up on the screen. well show you the key items that were taken. its called a receipt property list. four sets of top secret documents, three sets of secret documents, three sets of confidential documents, roger stone documents, unspecified binders of photos. it...

After trump said release the information about the raid, the seizure, whatever were calling it and basically called trumps bluff a little bit, right? >> absolutely. >> whats emerged in all of this as we talk about the recalibration is how deadly serious the department of justice is about following up on trumps claims and rolling stone is reporting tonight that two people familiar with the matter tell "rolling stone" that the fbi has begun asking former trump administration officials when they he...

Secure facility while they worked that out. did the trump team tell them to pound sand, that they werent going to turn anything over. thats whats in the affidavit. the other thing that is curious ant this is in fact the delay with tssci material. this material comes with covers that clearly delineate this level of classification. when something is declassified, you literally scratch out or put a line through the classification. which is a little odd, we know in the hectic days following january ...

Gaps in the information but perhaps new information as well. >> a lot of smart lawyers are saying its really hard to prove donald trump broke the law or prove criminal intent of breaking the law. beyond that, let the justice department look at what it looks like. the house oversight committee. if you read this "washington post" reporting. even with documents marked classified, prosecutors have a high legal bar to get to criminal charges. prosecutors have to prove someone mishandled the material,...

All of this has always been a challenge for people who are, at minimum, trying to preserve a record of a presidency thats obviously come into sharper focus with the january 6th commission. >> want to talk much more about those call logs and absence of calls in a moment. what do you make of this new reporting from wash post that some of trumps records were taken to ma la goe, they were clearly marked classified including documents at the top-secret level? >> so, i saw that report. we reported at ...

Whistle-blower protection act which keeps us all safe. and secondly, we should not assume because we really do not know what this is -- we do not know what this is, but we should not assume it was simply an act of the president sharing classified information with a foreign leader because he possesses the authority to declassify material. therefore, if it was him and we dont know, its probably something else. and thirdly, of a serious nature, of a flagrant nature, thats the law. and thirdly, i th...

Of the information. on the secret side if that information is a little less sensitive, if its disclosed without authorization it could cause serious damage to national security. not quite exceptionally great but still serious. that information on the secret side is a little less detailed. doesnt have quite the same nuance. doesnt get into sources or methods and doesnt provide the reader a sense of where that information came from, what sources and how we got it. there will be no access to the fu...