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Including dona perry who have been on this show and others wrote that a section could be used where the theory is not that every american voter was interfered with but that voters in battleground states where the fake electors were advanced, their rights would have been interfered with by convincing mike pence to disregard the legitimate right of folks in those 5-7 states. >> interesting. the conspiracy to defraud the u.s. seems fairly straightforward in terms of what that portends and what that...

Proceeding charge. what do you think this might mean, barb? >> my guess is the target letter identifies the statutes of investigation without describing a whole lot of detail. and so the statute is 18 united states code section 1512, and as you mention theres an awful lot of stuff packed into that statute, and the title of it is tampering with a witness. so it could be that maybe donald trump or others suggested to a witness they not tell the truth or something like that, but it strikes me as fa...

Do not know what particular sections of each statute the doj is looking at. so that means this tampering with a witness charge, that could be exactly what it sounds like, witness tampering. it could be a charge about how trumps legal team allegedly tried to influence the testimony of witnesses like former white house aide cassidy hutchinson, but it could also be the same obstruction of an official proceeding section that the doj has used over and over again to prosecute january 6th defendants, t...

In two different courts in new york city today in refusing to ultra quest for a new trial in the civil case with e. jean carroll the judge said, mr. trump raped her. those are the judges exact words, in clarifying with the evidence in the case actually proved to the jury. we will have more on that in this hour with law professor michele goodwin. also in manhattan today, a federal judge denied the donald trumps attempts to move manhattan district attorney alvin braggs criminal prosecution of dona...

Conspiracy to commit an offense against or to defraud the united states. obstruction of an official proceeding, and conspiracy to deprive people of rights, a civil rights law that the justice department policy manual says, "should be considered when addressing schemes to thwart voting in federal elections." what comes next, prosecutors will inform the grand jury that they have completed presenting the evidence on these charges. that could have already happened. and then the jurors will deliberat...

What could amount to decades in prison. it includes election law forgery, these are prominent republicans, current and former officials. school board member, a mayor, and now theyre all facing these charges. might be others in arizona in georgia. >> might be more to come. jessica, thank. you speaking of charges, more broadly, i want to know what some of the possible ones that trump might actually face if, and of course if, he is indicted. norm eisen is back with us right now. norm, weve talked a...

Obstruction. >> there are so many different aspects of this investigation. i think thats what -- weve heard about what could be in this target literate, but it is the fake electors scheme, the pressure on the state officials, pressure on pants, pressure on justice department officials. when you look at this graphic of just how expansive what hes looking at is, and we also know will russell was an aide to trump in the white house, personal aide to him out of the white house, is also still going t...

At the target letter today, jennifer, and you were wondering what the charges there could be, obviously were still reading the tea leaves too. we dont know but theoretically do you agree with tim those could be the charges or something else? >> it could be something else but he didnt talk about conspiracy against the united states, right, so obstruction was one thing, civil rights violation was another probably depriving the voters of having their votes counted but that could be a wide-ranging c...

Unprecedented step, now no longer unprecedented, but the unusual step of charging a former president, you would wait and see what the appellate court says, to see whether this is even legally within the statute. it sounds to me like there is nothing and theyre about inciting an insurrection or anything like that. so it really does come down to the obstruction, which has several legal impediments to its. not only the issues that arent being decided by the appellate court but also corrupt intent. ...

Cooperate, and to try and cut a plea or a cooperation deal precharge. >> what is your sense -- i mean, trump himself says he thinks hes going to face charges here. what do you think hell be indicted for? >> well, ive heard reporting that this target letter mentions obstruction of justice and, you know, witness tampering, allegedly tampering with mike pence in that proceeding, and those seem to be kind of what theyre looking at. at the same time, its an odd time to be bringing those, because cert...