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Obstruction of an official proceeding charge. thats one of the bread and butter charges of these january 6th cases. >> and perhaps the most significant. if thats what they charge him with. theyre charging the former president with obstructing the congressional vote count that happened on january 6th. thats up to 20 years. thats a very significant charge. >> this will be brought in d.c. what is different about a d.c. jury pool than a south florida jury pool, and can donald trump argue that this j...

Be about lawsuits. its going to be about legal fees. its going to be about judges and its just going to continue to be a further and further distraction, and thats why i am running is because we need a new generational leader. we cant keep dealing with this drama. we cant keep dealing with the negativity. >> joining me now nbc news justice correspondent ken dilanian, nbcs garrett haake whos been covering the trump campaign, also with us former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst, glenn ki...

Escorts and hunter was using his bank as basically an escort slush fund. and his corporate bank account as an escort slush fund. that sets alarm bells off with tax investigators that something is fishy. that is when he looked into it. and then he tried to bring the case to washington, d.c., and they move the case from d.c. to delaware and the minute it gets to delaware, everything goes wrong. the tires start flying off, you know, the buttons stop working. they drag this thing out like crazy. now...

Heat. here are tonights headlines. ♪ ♪ the urgent rescues in kentucky and a state of emergency after flash flooding inundates homes and cars. plus, the devastation after a tornado forms in north carolina. ♪ ♪ >> former president trump is staying defiant after receiving a target letter in the january 6th investigation. >> obstruction of an official proceeding could be one of the charges. >> i did know practically what a subpoena was an grand jury that all of the spear but now i am like be...

It aatter of picking. >> and so, ryan, to that point, the target letter mentions cons to commit offense or defraud the united states, deprivation of rights, witness tampering. now, its unclear just because they say three doesnt mean theres only three. you can kind of read the tea leaves on what theyre choosing to include those three means. what does it tell you? >> so, the first and the third are not unexpected. the first one is conspiracy to defraud. very likely that includes the scheme with th...

Or theyre people that jack smith had worked with previously and asked to come and be his deputies as part of this investigation. i dont think the election is driving the timing here. but with one concern, which is that they believe the american people deserve to see donald trump have a trial before the election so they can make an educated decision about whether or not to vote for him. and theyve said that in open court. >> thats interesting to me because i dont think theres anybody whose vote i...

Election interference. our legal experts are breaking down all of the new information for us. laura, can we start with you. the criminal charges potentially reportedly include possibility, conspiracy to commit an offense or defraud the u.s. and deprivation of rights, tampering with a witness. >> the second one, i think, people are often looking at to figure out what could that possibly be under the color of law, as they say. its normally about trying to use your office to take away someones priv...

Cited several possible charges including conspiracy to defraud the u.s., deprivation of rights under a cover of law which applies when someone uses power to deny constitutional rights, and witness tampering and obstruction of an official proceeding, the january 6th electoral council certification. >> this goes to the top of the most serious charges the president will face. this is of a constitutional dimension. we have never seen anything like this in the history of our country. >> reporter: the...

Obstruction, no matter how much he wants to pretend that the presidential records act insulates him from every other statue, any lawyer worth their salt is telling him that it does not protect you, from these other criminal provisions. it does not insulate you from the espionage act. defendant trump also said that he at the secret service took very good care of those documents. they were very well protected in his custody. >> i have mar-a-lago, i have secret service protection, i have everything...

>> yes. ana, as ken said, it is likely that the charges, i believe, will be obstruction of an official proceeding, which can get you up to 20 years in prison, conspiracy to defraud the united states, up to five years in prison, could be something related to the electors scheme, could be charges relating to the fundraising that went on that went to his pac instead of his legal defense fund. all those things are on the table, and there have been hundreds of rioters who have been charged with obstr...