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According to prosecutors, it was fueled by lies and animated by -- one of the things really striking about the indictment is jack smith went straight after the defense that precedent -- that is defendants have used, that he supposedly has a great faith desire to find out the truth about the election, and he was genuinely pursuings claims. jack smith says, no, thats not true. he was told time and time again that the things he was saying was not true. he knew what he was saying was false. >> katie...

Jack smith went straight at the defense -- president trump has defended hes used that he had supposedly a good faith desire to find out the truth about the election and he was legitimately pursuing his claims. jack smith said, no, thats not true. he was told time and time again the things he was saying were not true. he knew what he was saying was false. >> youve followed work on both trump cases. did anything surprise you tonight? >> i think one of the things that surprised me is unlike in the ...

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Point. why are you raising money like this? we thought you were worth ten billion dollars. you are supposed to be the modern midas, everything you touch turns to gold. and on the other hand, the low level employees in the mar-a-lago case, the documents case, which, remember, started out not so much as obstruction of justice as stealing national security documents and lying about the possession of them, these are not people who know where to find lawyers to represent them. theyd end up, you know,...

Footage from the mar-a-lago -- from mar-a-lago thats linked to the new obstruction charges filed last week against trump and two co-defendants in the documents case. what more can you tell us about it? >> reporter: right, brianna, so this is a substantial case about donald trump after he leaves the presidency in florida at mar-a-lago, accused of retaining national defense secrets and trying to keep them from the federal government, hide them essentially. all of that now the justice department is...

In d.c. accepted three new indictments. the first two were read aloud but not the third. that is the latest that we have here. i will let you continue. i wanted to just get that out there so we have the news on the record. >> ride, and as we expected, this is the other shoe dropping. the suggestion that shaq smith might be using the civil rights act and section 241. that would be a stretch. it has been used in some election cases of interfering with the right to vote. it goes to the concern many...

For being incredibly fair minded. she has a criminal defense background for 20 years of doing this, a good ten to 20 years and most importantly she was confirmed by the united states senate to a federal judgeship, not by some close squeaker vote, 95-0. that is who providing over this case. the 45 pages will be aired out before a court and a jury. if im donald trump right now, hes got away with a lot of things in his life but this is karma coming to roost. >> and you worked on the case that was t...

Over a year and a half and that includes cases that are pled out. theres going to be a very assertive effort to make this trial happen next year. otherwise, as you know, if trump manages to win the republican primary and is reelected, theres never going to be a trial. >> if we get to march, it is possible given the way the polling looks now that donald trump is already effectively the nominee by march. and then hes got another trial thats $ly going to start in march, the trial on the documents c...

Claims of election fraud the defendant privately acknowledged to others sounded crazy. nevertheless, the defendant embraced and publicly amplified co-conspirator threes disinformation. that person appears to be sydney powell. and "todays indictment serves as an important reminder, anyone who puts himself over the constitution should never be president of the united states. i will have more to say about the governments case after reviews the indictment. the former president is entitled to the pre...

Joy, that more will come. >> and we know that some key figures such as mark meadows and obviously vice president mike pence refused to come before the committee and testify and having seen all of the evidence and reviewed all of the evidence and chaired the committee, what do you expect them to be able to add as, you know, presumable witnesses in this case? >> well, obviously it would have been nice in the vice president, as well as mark meadows and some others, including members of congress had...