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Have been discussing from the special counsel that trump revealed yesterday cites three different statutes that they are now focused on, deprivation of rights, conspiracy to defraud the united states and tampering with a witness. trumps response included trying almost immediately to fund raise off this news. the fundraising email that the campaign sent out to supporters said in part, i did nothing wrong, i am completely innocent, as you can see in all caps. joining me now for reaction to this th...

Prosecutors, in that target letter that weve talked about, may choose to charge. this different statutes. but, the essence of the matter is, laura, that 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 proceedings that as the january 6th meeting of congress, and there is a tremendous amount of evidence that donald trump took ...

That information, then she can put a date on the calendar. >> paula, stay with us. lets bring in now senior cnn crime and justice reporter katelyn polantz, cnn political analyst, maggie haberman and katie teraski. there are three potentia statutes, it looks like, tt may be used against trum this election interference case. can you tell us about what we know now? >> reporter: yeah. so, abby, when ever a subject gets a target letter, so the justice department basically is telling them you might be...

About? i think the most logical is the right we have to cast our votes and have those votes counted. we see this used in police brutality cases where a police officer is using his official power to deprive somebody who has perhaps been a vic testify of excessive force of their constitutional rights. this is an unusual application but could fit with the facts. >> to deprive someone from the right of having their vote counted in a reasonable and responsible way basically? >> i think thats exactly ...

Purposefully to insulate this from the politics that kevin mccarthy and his friends keep insinuating is driving this and it is not. >> and proper attorneys with direct knowledge of the target letter sent to donald trump are telling nbc news that within the letter there are three federal statutes mentioned. deprivation of rights under color of law, conspiracy to defraud the u.s., and tampering with a witness. barb mcquaid, what does that telling you? >> that is very interesting. so conspiracy to ...

Witness. well get a legal breakdown as to all that in a moment. after first jumping ahead of prosecutors by breaking the news he was a target, mr. trump continuing to try to control the message with his mantra that the case is a disgrace and the work of a deranged prosecutor. garrett haake has late developments. >> reporter: a defiant donald trump lashing out at the special counsel as the election-related charges the former president may soon face come into focus. >> its election interference. n...

Charge. >> or as the january 6th committee put it, the big ripoff. >> yeah, so thate reporting wa before these three statutes sort of leaked out on the letter and wire fraud was not one of them. of course there could be a superseding indictment that would bring this into play, so doesnt mean there never will be.n we do know early in jack smiths investigation they were issuing subpoenase and questioning witnesses about the fund raising by trumps pack. they raised over $250 million from trump supp...

Tells "theew york times" its hard to see how another republican breaks out when primary voters are rallying around their most recent president and any challengers have to hold their fire. take governor ron desantis who more than held his fire in a rare interview with cnns jake tapper. >> are you saying that if he finds evidence of criminality he should not charge donald trump anyway? >> what im saying is when youre going after somebody on the other side of the political spectrum, if youre stretc...

White house aide named william russell, a young 30 something aide. so its not believed that he has precise material information, but it may more have to do with his prom sick proximity to dona trump, things he saw and heard. >> its all about that proximity. lets go back to the letter and what were learning about it. what does this list of federal statutes tell you and do you make anything significant out of the fact that it doesnt mention incitement? >> yeah, you know, first of all, i think we s...

On him personally or politically may ultimately be. >> and so lets talk about that, because the statutes mentioned in that letter include deprivation of rights under color of law, conspiracy to defraud the u.s. and tampering with a witness. catherine, what are those? >> well, conspiracy to defraud the united states would be the theory is that trump lost the election, he knew it, and he worked with lawyers, interesting mike pence called them crank lawyer, so he worked with lawyer and others to co...