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Of documents connected to rudy giulianis team. it was put together to try to find election fraud after the 2020 election. jack smith got access to these documents this week, sunday, how significant could that be for the broader investigation that might go on, even after trump is indicted? >> all of it is very significant. there is an investigation into donald trump personally, we know that he was named as the target of the investigation by jack smith, the special counsel, and theres also investi...

Chief of staff, and others. the trump letter mentions three things that he may have violated, and there could be more, but the target letter just names three. conspiracy to defraud the united states, obstruction of an official proceeding, and a civil rights charge, 18 u.s. c 241. all of those depend on the idea that trump was trying to hide and obfuscate the results of the 2020 election. and, you know, it doesnt take a rocket scientist to know that donald trump thought he lost the election. i wo...

>> theyre using an obscure statute to deploy it the buoys its not grounded in law whatsoever. we believe we have the right to do so, we will take this lawsuit all the way to the united states supreme court. >> lets bring in rosa flores in eagle pass, texas for us. rosa, bring us up to speed, what law is the doj focusing in on here? >> reporter: well, the doj is saying that theres a law that doesnt allow for the obstruction of a waterway. and let me show you what were talking about here. this -- ...

6? >> hard to say, jim. probably closely. the select committee turned over all of our materials, all of our transcripts, all of the documents we had obtained, well beyond just the official committee report to the special counsel. the intent was for them to take those facts as part of their calculus as to whether or not criminal charges were appropriate. we also referred directly to the special counsel, the consideration of specific criminal charges. we cited 1512-c, the obstruction of official p...

Trump, could be indicted for the third time for his alleged efforts to ruthlessly cling to power after losing the 2020 presidential election. as we await trumps legal faith, there really is no one better to talk to you than my next guest. as a former member of the january six select committee, he spent nearly two years painstakingly investigating the events that led up to the violent attack on our capitol on january 6th 2021. joining me now is maryland congressman, -- former lead impeachment man...

We saw for two months what donald trump did after the november election and all of the different things the january 6th committee has uncovered a lot, leading a very respective federal judge, david judge david carter of california, say that its more likely than not that donald trump committed a series of felonies including two of which remained in the jacks mitt target letter. >> so, in that target letter kind of outline to the charters that many of us can ex expected. can furious conspiracy to ...

Learning the prosecutors are interviewing two more people connected to trump? >> right. a target letter says essentially we have a good reason to indict you on criminal charges. when that indictment follows, such a letter is not certain. i think that it is a likely portend there will be an indictment, am rachl i just dont know when. it looks like hes doing his final t-crossing and i-dotting. hell bring three potential statutes, obstruction, fraud, and destruction. we dont know what he has. >> an...

So im happy about that. unless start with the prosecutors. clear, im gonna come to you first. i want to talk about the potential charges that donald trump could face. we know that in the trump target letter that was sent to donald trump, there are three statutes that are cited. one is conspiracy to commit an offense and defraud. the other is conspiracy against rights. and the third is obstruction. clare, starting with you, what do you make of those potential charges and the fact that incitement ...

Needs to be handled. we see pictures of him very close to trump when he was president. is there anything left they can be talking about involving executive privilege in that grand jury? >> well its his third time testifying in the bigger point i think, there are some real tea leaves here, is that this guy was also with trump at mar-a-lago. he has been involved in both investigations. they were talking about executive privilege, which we just found out by happenstance means that the testimony was...

The information in the transcripts from the i.r.s. whistleblowers that they gave to the ways and means committee because they -- the investigators themselves believed the term big guy referred specifically to joe biden. even the assistant u.s. attorney and other supervisors also believed that it was dad, which was joe biden, was engaged in these operations, these businesses. so youve got a lot going on there but it all ties joe biden right into the hunter biden illicit business scandal. a more f...