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Willing to hear from him if he so chooses to go in and testify to them on his own behalf. if he wants to do that to try to convince them not indict him, its a secret proceeding. right now we dont expect trump to go in and speak to the grand jury, but the justice department sending him this letter is one of the last things that would happen in a situation i can this where the justice department, the grand jury, has been looking at a possible charge. of course on the special counsel side, thats th...

This is cnn breaking news. the most high-profile criminal target in the world, donald trump says hes now received a letter from the special counsel in anticipation of an indictment in the future and marks another time the president will make history of the wrong kind. im anderson cooper in new york. youre watching cnns live coverage, donald trump in legal peril. >> im dana bash in washington. the justice department goes on record and informs donald trump he is a criminal target. the case this ...

Compete, if at all, with the other pending cases? i have to tell you, most judges are going to look at a case in their own jurisdiction and worry, maybe about what anyone thinks. if jack smith is bringing case, we dont know where he might file the charges. there are a number of possibilities, washington, d.c., one, arizona, could be a possibility, of course, georgia could be a possibility. if youre talking about rico, that talks about the notion of using the interstate avenues and availability t...

Is why jack smith had no choice but to charge him. getting goaded by a defendant, you have to let that roll off of you. either the evidence is there or its not. and clearly the evidence is here. and you go for the big guy, the guy who commanded the violence. >> stephanie, its interesting ty was just saying that for trump all things are the same, that the fact that this charges here would be truly historical in their context regarding the constitution and the rule of law, to him, is no different ...

They plead out, most defendants, im not implying at all that trump will do that, seems to relish the idea of indictment and prosecution. but rather, the case would not be brought unless it is nailed down solid. and the fbi and other agencies surveil, wiretap, develop informants get paper evidence. and only then does the prosecution move forward. the government would rather ditch a case than lose a case. so smith is bringing serious charges with serious evidence. >> so, thats such an interesting ...

You should no, we tried to confirm all day if anyone else received a target investigation. its not been confirmed if anyone else has received such a letter. >> laura jarrett, thank you. plank faluci. frank, you heard about lauras reporting on jack smith, do you agree where this tells us where the probe stands now, how quickly you might find it on this letter saying donald trump is a target? >> sure. look, were days away, likely, of the indictment of a former president, the letter purportly says ...

Dont choose where they get deployed. >> absolutely. >> senior washington correspondent at bloomberg, thank you for joining us. you also have a new book coming out next year, "paper soldiers: how the weaponization of the paper dollar changed the world order." up next, the staffing shakeup inside ron desantiss campaign. and coming up on "morning joe," develops in the legal world surrounding donald trump. what to expect tomorrow in the classified hearing in the documents case. plus the dist...

Significant part of the special counsels january 6th probe. >> what are you learning about these interviews and the direction the special counsel might be taking? >> it really underscores just how sprawling the january 6th investigation is. if you compare it to the documents case, weve already seen charges brought by jack smith. in this case we have not and the investigation is still ongoing. we have the fake electors and what happened in the states. we also have what happened at the justice dep...

Jared is going to say. elie of course can speak to that at greater length. but there is no way that jack smith brought jared in there to impeach the information or the testimony that he has. that is just not how the grand jury system works. >> the reason you butchered commissioner in the grand jury is to find out what he has to say. you can use the grand jury to explore. if you take a witness who you know it might be a problem for, you might give testimony favorable to the defendant, great. let ...

This was something that should have happened very, very early on. i say better late than never, of course. but it does suggest that theyre sort of ticking the boxes of the things we would want them to do. >> there have been some hail mary, i would describe them as hail mary attempts by donald trump to try to erase the charges against him. trying to basically ask a federal court to sort of nix the georgia case, which doesnt seem likely. they also attempted to get a delay in the trial in florida, ...