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Crowd. it is not russells first time appearing before the grand jury. begging the question, why he was asked to return, making it all the more interesting is the fact that russell was never interviewed by the january 6th house committee last summer. remember that committee interviewed like more than 1,000 people, but somehow, russell was not on that list and his name wasnt even mentioned in the committees final report. there are still a lot of other questions surrounding this case, including whe...

And frighten people, but they dont frighten us, because we are going to make america great again. >> steve: one of the other things that president trump said on truth social regarding this target letter is he had, as of sunday, four days to appear before the grand jury. so if the president wanted to go and talk to the grand jury that jack smith has assembled, hes got -- if the meter started on sunday, probably until tomorrow or the next day as well. >> ainsley: does he have a choice? does he hav...

The doj has been weaponized against donald trump heres. that moment. >> jack smith has been prosecuted democrats as well. he prosecuted or at, least was part of the prosecution of senator mendez, senator john edwards. are you saying that if he finds evidence of criminality he, should not talk charge donald trump anyway? what im >> saying is that when you are going after somebody on the other side of the political spectrum, if youre stretching statutes to try and criminalize maybe political disag...

Weve talked about, may choose to charge this. different statutes. the essence of the matter is, laura, donald trumps alleged, now apparently going to be charged, for a scheme to stop the certification of the electors of the rightful president, joe biden. in favor of preserving his own tenure in the white house. the official proceeding is the january 6th meeting of congress. theres a tremendous amount of evidence that donald trump took steps to interfere with that. >> weve heard from the congress...

Afternoon. >> jack smith has prosecuted democrats too. i mean he prosecuted or was part of it for senator menendez, senator john edwards. are you saying if he finds evidence of criminality he should not charge donald trump anyway? >> what im say something when youre going after somebody on the other side of the political spectrum, if youre stretching statutes to try to criminalize maybe political disagreements, that is wrong. now, look, this is all speculation. but i think weve gone down the roa...

States. both of those charges were mentioned by a federal judge, judge carter, that was more likely that be not that trump violated those statutes. so i think that you will see that. there could be some other sur surprises, for example you have the fund raising that trump did to raise $250 million to his pac supposedly for his legal defense fund but it went elsewhere. so i still think that there is evidence and maybe some charges that were not aware of yet at this point. >> so were also waiting ...

>> it is a complicated case. you know the law, and you know a whole lot of information about this specific inquiry. if you were jack smith, what would you be focused on? >> well, i would be focused, and i say this as a former federal prosecutor, what is the evidence of the presidents knowledge and intent? he was told, you know, multiple times by his own attorney general, by his top justice department officials, that the claims of fraud that he was pushing out or false, bogus, as bill barr said, ...

Letter because there is a broad statute that covers obstruction of official proceedings thats been used to prosecute a number of insurrectionists from january 6th with respect to the certification of electoral votes in congress. if this is charged like those cases that would be obstruction of that official proceeding in congress. theres a different subparagraph of that statute that is tampering with witnesses. that would suggest an effort to interfere with the testimony or production of evidence...

Statutes trump may have violated. donald trump is lashing out calling the prosecutors evil and going after the entire justice department. and trying to raise money off it within hours of revealing he received the letter. and could we learn today the trial date for the mar-a-lago documents case? a judge says december is too soon probably. so when? im john berman with sara sidner and kate bolduan. this is "cnn news central." ♪ were learning new details about that target letter donald trump...

Playbook that weve seen him use around the past two times that he has either received a target letter or was indicted. he has tried to come out ahead of these charges. i think as we look forward to the next few days we know that donald trump is reaching out to allies on capitol hill trying to strategize a defense messaging for him and i think we will continue to see this defiant face of his, kate. >> alaina treene, thank you so much. so the most important new development overnight might be rep...