jacqui heinrich lab at the white house. what s on the campaign agenda today? well, john, the biden campaign seems to have noticed the trump campaign raking in the donations following that conviction, so they are leaning into the messaging, too. i have no doubt they raised a significant amount of money because his base we know is going to stick with him through thick and thin with her he s a convicted felon or not. this campaign did in fact have one of the best stretches of fund-raising since the campaign launched. there s at least one democrat he thinks that the wrong approach. congo s been dean phillips, who tried to primary biden this year, says donald trump is a serial liar, cheater, and philanderer, a six time to clear bankruptcy, and instigator of insurrection, and he thrives on portraying himself as a victim. governor kathy hochul should pardon for the good of the country. there are plenty of other voices within the party who disagree. i think the president shou
not be heard type of candidate. they re not worried about a false version of the audiotape, they are worried about the real audiotape being heard before the election. it is a transparent effort to get the court to hold the audiotape, or at least keep it in litigation, until people have voted. sandra: to your point, in your piece, on your blog, i should say, you said consider the invocations of the organ for a second. it would mean any visual or audio recording of the president could be withheld due to the danger of digital or other manipulation. it would eviscerate any existing limits on privilege assertions. i want to move on to the trump latest, because here we are, monday, fresh off the trump trial and the guilty verdict for the former president. and you have a piece, the headline, the trump conviction presents a target rich environment for appeal, and you are noting the thing speaker mccarthy jested, that this will be appealed. where do you see it going now that you ve had a w
specifically the same two criminal statutes, two of the three that jack smith has used to charge. the case has only got stronger since then special counsel have some tools that we didn t have. he can immediately push through privilege assertions and get a judge to rule on them, he has used that to get vice president pence, some additional testimony from him and others, so the case has got stronger since we concluded our work, and we had already concluded there was evidence of criminal conduct. t concluded there was evidence of criminal conduct. criminal conduct. i want to talk about criminal conduct. i want to talk about the criminal conduct. i want to talk about the defence, i criminal conduct. i want to l talk about the defence, one criminal conduct. i want to - talk about the defence, one of the arguments on the trump legal team will be that the president, former president was acting on advice that he sought on his lawyers, that essentially he was receiving legal counsel. will
consistent with what you found? and it was your belief that they would. that behind the closed door of the eastmans and the meadows was not exculpatory evidence. it appears that the justice department has reached that very conclusion. trump has received a target letter. today jack smith s office told trump s lawyers they should expect an indictment. your reaction to that news? not surprising. reinforces everything that we found over the 16 months of our investigation, nicolle. we ve been marching inexorably towards this moment. i m not surprised that the special counsel has reached this conclusion or seems poised to. my guess is jack smith is holding a full house where we had two pair. i m not a poker player. but it s only gotten stronger is my point as he has been able to push through some of the privilege assertions and get act to people and information that we didn t have. we were already there at the end
the evidence that the select committee dwochlts he has the ability to get immediate rulings on privilege assertions from the chief judge of the d.c. district court. we didn t have that ability. he has the leverage of the looming possibility of criminal charges that he may be using to negotiate plea agreements or cooperation agreements with people. he has a lot more tools at his disposal that are just not available in a congressional oversight process. my expectation is that he s taken sort of the foundation that the select committee laid in our investigation and has likely gone beyond it and developed some additional evidence. the indictment, i d be curious to see how detailed it is. it probably will be some sort of speaking indictment much like the mar-a-lago matter. interesting to see who is included. this is not just the former president. this is a conspiracy case, and what are the specific offenses. a lot of potential federal crimes apply. it will be interesting to see which he cho