>> reporter: with former new jersey governor chris christie in north dakota and her doug burgum also set to join the race this week. republican candidates are seeking breakthrough. former south carolina governor nikki haley took a swipe at florida governor ron desantis for picking a fight with disney after they posed his so-called don't take a say gabriel. >> because they went and criticized him, now he's going to spend taxpayer dollars on a lawsuit. like all of this vendetta, we have been down that road. >> reporter: desantis called it bizarre and focused his attention on trump whom he trails by double-digit margins. >> i think there's a lot of voters who just aren't going to vote for him. for us to bring new people in the party. >> reporter: on the meeting at the justice department, cbs news has learned special counsel jack smith was there underscoring the seriousness of the discussion. smith has not spoken publicly about the case but has been moving aggressively behind the scenes to secure testimony from thousands of people close to the
trump, in his desire to not have media, or book authors misquote him, essentially provided jack smith with a particularly blockbuster piece of information. donald trump describes that he knows that classified records are sensitive, and can't just be declassified by blinking his eyes, when he is no longer president. but i think also really important, because it's just at least, if he's pretending you're not pretending, that he has a classified record, that he hoped to use in a personal petty vendetta. that is really important. i have to say alex, from not necessarily always about the charges, but about what it towels, prosecutors as they try to explain the story of, why did donald trump keep more than 100 classified records at mar-a-lago? and after he had been subpoenaed for these records, by federal grand jury, and
recommend attacking iran. >> yes, layers of irony here, tali farhadian weinstein. -- there is the legal part of this and then the public opinion part of this. talk to me about, legally, the importance of having his statements on tape. >> yeah. this is blockbuster evidence, alex, legally speaking. and it's not direct evidence of the crime that we had been anticipating that he would be charged with, which is, having the classified documents at mar-a-lago. this obviously is happening in a different setting and different time. but it's what we call other acts evidence or rule 404b evidence that comes into support those charges, or tells us -- his intent, that he knew how classification works, that he was not supposed to have it in that he was holding on to it. his motives -- i mean, that's hung over the documents case. why did he have the stuff? and now we have an answer that i think would be meaningful to a jury, which is personal vendetta, ego. he was wounded by these stories
i think would be meaningful to a jury, which is personal vendetta, ego. he was wounded by these stories about merely and he thought he could use documents like this to help himself and maybe legacy build. and depending on what comes out we might learn something about his m o about how he managed to get documents into his hands that he should not have had, all of which can shed light on and support the mar-a-lago charges. and everything i have said is true even if it is all a ruse. even if he was waving around a blank piece of paper -- >> a blank piece of paper -- >> -- or something that was not even classified in the first place. prosecutors can still do all the work that i just described. >> as far as charges and building a case, which is -- i mean, is it a bigger deal in this instance, in terms of the charges it supports, in however
stuff? and now we have an answer i think meaningful to a jury which is personal vendetta. he was wounded by these stories about esmilley and he thought h could use these documents like thisd to help himself maybe legacy build. andga depend on what comes out,e might learn something about his m.o.so of how he managed to get documents into his hands that he shouldn't have had all of which can shed light on and support the mar-a-lago charges. and everything i've said is true even if it's all a rouse, if he was waving a blank piece of paper or something written by somebody else or something that was not even classified in the first place. prosecutors can still do all of the work that i've just described. >> do you think -- as far as charges and building a case, it is a bigger deal in this instance in terms of the charges it supports the fact he knew the documents weren't classified and was in possession of them in
california at the time of the muferd. >> not only was he not in texas, he was on the other side of the country. >> he was. >> was there anything to suggest that he had some kind of vendetta against the chapa family? >> we were not able to find any connection between cristobal melchor and the chapa family or the olgin family. >> he then showed melchor the letter, and melchor was stunned. >> but he was even more surprised when he saw his picture on the last page of the letter. >> that was because melchor immediately recognized the photo. he knew when and where it was taken. plus, he said, the original photograph was of two people. the missing man, he said, was his former roommate, david strickland. if the snapshot was a surprise to melchor, the name david strickland was an even bigger one for detective volaman. turns out, he had crossed paths with david strickland before. >> i had interviewed david strickland in 2012, just days
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from his move to hand pick a state board overseeing disney world operations. joining me now is my good friend, senior correspondent, dominic paton. thank you for joining us. here as you know, you've written about, it desantis took desantis to federal court for launching a targeted campaign of government retaliation against disney basal look companies opposition to florida 's so-called don't say gay law. then you have, last, week disney announces it's pulling the plug on the development plan you orlando. the ceo, bob iger, question to desantis, does the governor even want disney's huge business and tax revenue? tell us how the counsel disney campus in pucks florida, and do you think it could hurt desantis politically? >> well,, alex let me be clear, governor desantis has a unique ability of making president biden the walt's knee company donald trump, and the two republican senators from florida, and above allows. all of whom, agree has vendetta
the orange county mayor said that these 2,000 jobs not moving to florida was a result of disney not having an inclusive and collaborative work environment. the florida democratic party chair said that this loss happened because of desantis' unhinged personal vendetta against disney. natasha chen, cnn, los angeles. hours after montana's total ban on tiktok was signed into law, a group of users is suing the state. they say the new law is unconstitutional and violates their right to free speech. montana's ban goes far beyond restrictions enacted by other state, some of which have blocked the use of tiktok on official government devices. the new law goes into effect in january. three self-described fbi whistleblowers testified in the u.s. house committee hearing thursday. their testimonies are key to republican allegations that the nation's top law enforcement agency is weaponized and biased