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Surveillance footage. the allegation that his aides at his request it seems like went to lengths to delete surveillance footage here. >> is quite remarkable. the obstruction of justice crime was not well known before watergate. i had never heard of it in law school, never taught about it. only a few prosecutors knew about it. after watergate everybody knows about obstruction and how easy it is to do to interfere with any investigation. i think everybodys antenna has been up post watergate. trump...

Incredibly important and as laura said prosecutors refer to this as consciousness of guilt. donald trumps defense has always been ahead every right to hold on to these documents. if that were true that would be no need to destroy a video of people moving these boxes around. and so this really hits home with this obstruction of justice charge. certainly the addition of the bedminster document is interesting, but it was already in the indictment, so i think this new obstruction is really fascinati...

What is called, in the business, it superseding indictment to add three new charges to the mar-a-lago case today. that is one count, one new count of willful retention of national defense information, and two new counts of obstruction against both mr. trump, and his ballot. the special counsel also charged a new third defendant in that case. a man named carlos de oliveira, who is the head of maintenance at mar-a-lago. and it is the addition of mr. deliver at where things get really quite interes...

Now known as the superseding indictment that contradicts trumps denials about actually having the classified attack plans in that meeting. but were going to get to that in a moment. im joined now by cnns evan perez, gloria boris johnsoner and a former senior national security official at the justice department. thank you all for being here. let me start with you. were waiting all day to see if trump was going to be indicted in the other investigation. then word came down adding on new charges to...

And i think what youre getting a picture of here is the prosecutors are going to tell the jurors, this is how he planned to help complete the obstruction. >> by the way, whens the last time you had a 24-minute telephone conversation with anyone? we have been talking for 11 minutes so far. add 13 minutes to that, if my math is still good, and thats how long the president of the united states spoke to this person? that is so telling in so many ways. >> about what? >> about what? what was said? whe...

Indictments? >> i think that there was some work that still needed to be done on the carlos fiala vera piece that is investigation, and prosecutors didnt want to wait to result that, and part two, there are clearly, as this indictment shows, cooperating witnesses had provided evidence against carlos de oliveira, and others in this case. including walt nauta. >> one quick question for you, are they still interviewing witnesses down in florida? is this the end of this case? is this it or could the...

We begin with new charges in the trunk classified documents case, he is now being accused of attempting to delete surveillance footage at his property. >> the department of justice has announced an indictment to tr trumps classified documents case. he now faces an additional charge and two new additional counts of obstruction. he is accused of asking a staff member to erase camera footage in an attempt to obstruct the probe into classified documents that wound up at his palm beach resort. some n...

Apparently, carlos de oliveira is the one who was assigned to put on the lock on the storage room, which is what the trump team had told prosecutors and told the justice department that they were going to secure all of those boxes all of those documents to make sure they were in a safe place. obviously, after that, prosecutors knew that the boxes were moved. one of the things that to me, really stands out, this indictment, this new indictment, really brings forward the timeline. the previous one...

Substantiate subsequent search. this fills in so many of the blank we knew something was amiss and there were witnesses that came forward to the justice department and told them boxes were moved and there was an effort apt obstruction them fills in the blanks on that obstruction picture -- its a lot worse once they get the subpoena for those surveillance tapes. >> it kind of turns the former president into the wizard behind the curtain, because thats what this says. and can you sort of imagine t...

Witnesses had provided evidence against carlos talavera, and others in this case. including what nauta. >> one quick question for you, are they still interviewing witnesses down in florida? is this the end of this case? is this it or could there actually be more? >> i do not think that this is it. we knew carlos deliverer was on their, essentially their target list. so that is not really that much of a surprise to see them finally making a decision on that. but they are not done with this invest...