someone without authorization, that would amount to a violation of the espionage act, and it could land him up to ten years in prison. amazingly, this wasn t the only self incriminating answer the former president gave last night about that particular investigation. why did you take those documents with you when you left the white house? i had every, to honor the presidential records act, you have the presidential record, i was there i took what i, took it gets declassified. first, the idea that a president can declassify top secret information is false and frankly impossible. the red alert there is when trump says i was there and i took what i took. that statement contradicts what trump lawyers told congress just last month. they said the mar-a-lago probe should be shut down because it was the staff s fault that anything that was packed and shipped off to mar-a-lago, mr. trump had no clue about any of that. there is more.
to a violation of the espionage act and could land him up to ten years in prison. amazingly this wasn t the only self-incriminating answer the former president gave last night about that particular investigation. why did you take those documents with you when you left the white house? i had every right to under the presidential records act. you have the presidential records act, i was there and i took and it s declassified. okay, first the idea that a president can declassify top secret information with a glance is impossible. but the red alert there is when trump says i was there and i took what i took. that statement contradicts what trump told congress just last month. they said the mar-a-lago probe should be shutdown because it was the staff s fault that anything that was packed and shipped off to mar-a-lago, mr. trump had no clue about any of that. there is more. trump was asked about another criminal investigation, the one involving his attempts to overturn election results
weeks. do you think there are additional big fish which could come here after pence? i don t think so. i think pence is kind of the last person. there are other people like john eastman and others who probably are asserting attorney-client privilege or maybe the targets. you don t bring targets into the grand jury necessarily. i think we are really talking about toward the end of this january 6th probe. there is the mar-a-lago probe which is separate. we could get close. nbc s jonathan allen caught up with former president trump right after we learned of pence s testimony. let s listen. mister president, mister president, what do you think of mike pence testifying today? i don t know what he said. let me get a picture! i have a lot of confidence in him. it sounds like it is out of the sopranos. what did you think of his comments? that s exactly how it sounds to me. i mean, donald trump is someone who has always tried to intimidate witnesses, dangle pardons in front of t
movement from jack smith officially on these things in the next couple of weeks. do you think there is additional big fish that could come here? after pence. i don t think so. i think pence is kind of the last person. there are other people like john eastman and others who probably using attorney-client privilege, or targets, bringing targets into a grand jury. i think we are really talking about towards the end of this january 6th probe. and then of course there is the mar-a-lago probe which is separate. we could be getting close, nbc s jonathan allen caught up with former president trump after we learned of pence s testimony, let s listen to that. mister president, mr. president what do you think of mike pence testifying today? i don t know what he said, but i have a lot of confidence in him. i have a lot of confidence in him. it sounds like it s out of the sopranos. what did you think of his comments? that s exactly how it sounds to me. in donald trump is someone who
jury has been busy. here last week trump s top department can cuccinelli, testified before the grand jury invested mailing trump s effort to subvert the election. you ll remember, cuccinelli is a da official that trump asked to seize the voting machines, in key swing states six weeks after election. de cuccinelli declined the honor, but his discussions with trump are apparent interest, federal prosecutors and also this week it was reported that two people who searched trump properties for classified documents, they also testify before federal grand jury in the mar-a-lago probe. meanwhile, this list is long, i know but over new york city and another investigation, into the former president trump organization controller, jeffrey mcconney, reportedly testified today before the grand jury investigating the stormy daniels hush money payments. just this, evening the new york times reported that prosecutors are warning that they may file additional charges against presently jailed, longti