Weeks. And in georgia, the county judge just rejected efforts by trumps legal team to toss evidence in that criminal investigation. Were ready to go. The work is accomplished. The former Business Associate of Hunter Bidens testified before a closed door congressional hearing. Devin archer said that hunter biden sold the, quote, Illusion Of Access to his father. Everyday this Bribery Scandal becomes more credible. Theres a lot of smoke and where theres smoke theres fire. Theres no evidence linking joe biden to anything related to hunter biden. Russian officials are accusing ukraine of launching a new wave of Drone Strikes in moscow. One crashed into a highrise tower. Ukraine is getting stronger, gradually the war is returning to the territory of russia. Quite why the russians are fighting so hard for here is that these are their last lines of defense . Well, no. They think theres far more fighting to be done. The wife of suspected Serial KillerRex Heuermann revealing her two Adult Children cry themselves to sleep, they no longer feel human. She had no idea this was going on or the allegations she was a suspect. I dont know where he spent this money. Theres this contrast between long island and what we found in the city where he worked. And here is the chance for morgan from rapinoes pass. The chance is gone. The flickon is dangerous. This is a chance. Its off the post by the width of a post and the skin of their teeth, the United States have qualified for the round of 16. If youre waking up, the u. S. Womens soccer team moves on in the world cup. It was a nail biter, as phil can tell you, watching it all morning. It was unsettling, frankly. Its all about me and how i feel in the morning. But it was a good jolt of energy. I was very awake. And they move on. They move on. That was what matters. That is what matters. Flipped the switch. We have a lot of big news. Well have more on the world cup later. But first, today could be charging decision day for former President Donald Trump and the federal investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Its tuesday. So the grand jury in that case may be meeting just a few hours from now as we learn new information in the other federal investigation into the expresident. The classified documents case, his maralago Property Manager out on 100,000 bond after appearing in a miami courtroom. Carlos de oliveira telling the i. T. Director, quote, the boss wanted Surveillance Video deleted. Its now in the hands of the lawyers for both the defense and prosecution, according to a new court filing. Legal action means legal bills. New this morning, what were seeing just how big those bills are. How much is this costing the former president . Well his Political Action committee save america is burning through cash and now has less than 4 million left in its account. That is down from 105 million at the beginning of last year. It does not seem to be hurting trump politically in the polls. A new poll shows trump statistically tied with President Biden in a hypothetical matchup in a general election. 43 and 43 the New York Times college poll. Senior crime and justice reporter Katelyn Polantz joins us. Good morning. Indictment watch for weeks and its tuesday. So the grand jury may be meeting. Also waiting for prosecutors to meet with bernie carrick. Would that happen to happen before a potential indictment . Not necessarily. The Justice Department are able to do a lot of things and bring an indictment and continue investigating. We know they are still looking into this close associate of rudy giuliani, bernie carrick. They want to talk to him. Hes going to be talking to him very soon. He already turned over a great deal of documents. That could happen even after an indictment is filed. And right now, where we sit, is that donald trump says he believes an indictment is imminent. There is nothing that says that that is incorrect. And thats because this grand jury in washington thats been looking at january 6th, they have had quite a bit of momentum, especially over the last few weeks. So, if you dial back the clock a bit on july 16th, that is when donald trump received the Target Letter from the Justice Department telling him that he was very likely to be indicted for the second time related to this january 6th investigation that federal prosecutors had been conducting, using a grand jury that has been meeting in washington, d. C. For many, many months. That grand jury often meets tuesdays and thursdays. So here we are on a tuesday. If they gather today, they very well could be asked to look at the indictment and to vote on it, to approve it and bring it into the court system as formal charges against the former president. That happened two weeks ago when he got the Target Letter. Since then there has been additional witnesses into that grand jury and last week the Trump Defense team met. So a lot has been happening behind the scenes. We have to see exactly what emerges publicly from the federal court. Swing back to the maralago case. Obviously we saw the de oliveira arraignment yesterday. The Surveillance Video now in the hands of the prosecution of trumps Defense Lawyers. Whats your sense of what that footage actually contains . Could that be damning to the former president and his codefendants . It could be. But we have to see exactly what is revealed at the trial if these particular charges do end up going to trial as theyre charged now. So Carlos De Oliveira and walt nauta the other codefendant are accused along with donald trump of trying to talk about and get rid of Surveillance Footage. Not that any Surveillance Footage that the Trump Organization had of that property was actually deleted, but theyre charged with wanting to try and take steps to get rid of it because it very well may have captured them moving boxes that had federal records in them when the Justice Department was seeking to get those returned. And that Surveillance Footage, thats only one piece of the evidence. From what we can see in the indictment itself, phil and poppy, there is a description of de oliveira and Walt Gnauta Walking Throh A Tunnel with flashlights just after days donald trump became aware they would be subpoenaed for all this Surveillance Footage. Theres another episode just a couple days after that de oliveira is captured walking through the bushes and then walking back through the bushes on the grounds of maralago. So all of that together could be quite substantial, but then theres also very likely Witness Testimony that could come into play here. A lot of moving parts. I was going to stay stay on high alert. I think you pretty much always are at this point. Great reporting as always, Katelyn Polantz. Lets bring in senior legal analyst elie honig. Good morning to you. Catch us up on this 2020 Election Probe, whats the latest. I guess an indictment could come any day. Yeah, pop. So we are clearly in end game. The big question is when will we arrive at the end . As it turns out we have a pretty good example because this same prosecutor already indicted donald trump of course in the maralago classified documents case. What does that tell us about when we might see an indictment in the Election Probe . Lets do a probe here. In the last case and in this case, jack smith sent Target Letters over to donald trump. In the maralago case he sent that letter on may 19th. The indictment came on june 20th. Thats a 20 day lag. In the January 6th Case the Target Letter went out on july 16th. Were now 16 days in. There does not have to be mathematical precision here, but it can give us a rough sense of where we are. Will there be an indictment . We dont know. Were in the ballpark. Now, tore thing that happened at the very end of the other case is the Defense Lawyers came in and met with doj to make this last pitch why you should not indictment my client. Last time that happened on june 5th. Indictment came down on june 8th. That was three days. And this time the meeting happened on july 27th. We are now five days after that. So again, what we can safely say is we are in the ballpark. When the end will come, will be up to the prosecutors and the grand jury. This is as reflected in the Target Letter that jack smith said to donald trump according to trumps team. By the way, last time the charges in the Target Letter were similar but not identical to what charges ended up in the indictment. Here we know that the charges listed in the Target Letter include conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States and deprivation of civil rights. These tell me the emphasis is really likely to be on the weeks and days leading up to january 5th. The scheme to try to steal the election. Then the third is Witness Tampering. I put an asterisk there on purpose. I actually think it will turn out the be a different. Theres a very broad statute that, yes, covers Witness Tampering and but also covers obstruction of an official proceeding relate to congress from counting the electoral ballot. As soon as we get this indictment, lets see how this measures up. Also who the team of prosecutors have who the grand jury heard from, the witnesses in all of this. Who jack smith talked to. That really is a key clue, is it not . Yeah. One thing i think we can discern from all this is jack smith is looking at the sevenstate strategy. Donald trumps effort to steal the election in these seven states. We know doj has spoken with various officials from the seven states. Brad raffensperger from georgia, officials from arizona, the former governor. Theyre clearly looking at this from every state. Broad lens. Related to that, the fake elector scheme the submission of these documents we know they have spoken with some of the fake electors. They have spoken with mike pence the former vice president. And we know they have spoken with various people who were at the rally beforehand. Okay. Well watch. Elie, thank you very much. Well, you know what the legal issues are. Where there are lawyers, there are expenses. Trumps political operation for his reelection, theyre burning through money quite fast to meet those expenses and using questionable financial tti to cover those expenses. According to the Fec Filings Trump started 2022 before any of the indictments came down 101 million for his joint Political Action committee. Now e same pac at this moment based on the filing that arrived last night, less than 4 million in the bank. The campaign is spending more than its inging in, even though its various fundraising arms for the former president brought in 53illion in donations, the first six mompbts of the year it has spent when you look at the entirety of its Committee Finance Consolation more than 53 million. In fact, you add in the super pac spent more than 100 million in the First Six Months of the year. Also trumps Leadership Pac spent about 21 million on legal fees. The president and its associates the First Six Months. If you look at what that means, more than 70 of the total distributions through the First Six Months of the year. Now, trumps fundraisi entities are trying toov the costs in any way they can and this is by far the most fascinating dynamic of this fec fing and the entire universe now. The Political Action committee transferred 60 or donated 60 million to the super pac, Make Americgrt again. Super pacs and the political operations of the candidate ar not allowed to coordinate. They are not allowed to operate within one another or talk to e another or give one anothe money technically when it comes to giving it back, Political Action committee asked for a refund of 60 million in total. What we have seen in the fec filing they have gotten 12. 3 thats a larger refund to some degree you want to put refund in quotes here than has ever happened before at least on my read of fec filings up to this point. The question is, one, how is this happening . Why is it happening . Clearly we know its a legal bill problem. They have a Liquidity Issue both the campaign and going to the super pac to get money back. This is something i have never seen before in campaign finance. Its not those rules are actually really strong to some degree. Trump campaign made clear they followed everything bto the rul of the law. Its fascinating. It is. Lets bring in anchor of Spectrum News errol louis. Its harder to return a dress than it is to return or ask for 60 Million Bucks back from an entity by the way that is supposed to have no conversations, official ties with any candidate. Thats the only rule i suppose any more around pacs and where did it go . Yeah, no. Were seeing really innovative uses of pacs. Inknow vnovative i like that. Thats good. Ron desantis is good with this never back down pac that has a ton of money as well. Obviously the advantage for the pacs is they can raise as much money as they need to. They raise a ton of money and figure out how to work with the candidates as much as they can within the bounds of the law. The thing i think is fascinating about this whole trump scene is that he is both bound by the fact that he has all these legal bills but also now in this increasingly noncompetitive primary. So he needs to raise a lot of money to pay his legal bills was anticipated, hey, we need to win this fight. It is starting to look like a fight. Its not over until its over, that adds layer of problem for him he wasnt anticipating. Thats a great point. The super pac was designed and has up to this point the tune of 23 million been their tv side spend. Thats how theyve been attacking ron desantis to the tune of 20 plus million dollars. Now they dont feel like they necessarily need to spend, but they would even if they win the nomination have a fretty intense and very expensive general election battle. Does this matter . Is there a tangible cash crunch . It absolutely does matter. There are people who are not necessarily going to write that second or third or fourth check to the extent that this becomes the main issue. You have will hurd sort of put it out there for the whole campaign to sort of look at, he is running to stay out of prison. He is raising money to pay his legal bills. This is a legal case and not necessarily a political campaign. And there may be people around the margins, maybe i dont necessarily need to write that next check. Maybe send it to my senator. Or just sit and wait until the general election. But, paying Donald Trumps legal bills is not necessarily going to be a viable strategy. To the extent that he gets in front of rallies and says, this is all about political persecution, you have to help me out. Sure, that will make some sense up to a certain point, but the cash crunch is going to continue for sure. Elie, its not just if hes indicted in this other federal probe. Its what happens in georgia, which well know in the next month, really month from today. What i thought was so interesting, trump lost in terms of what he wanted in terms of a dismissal of evidence and wanted fani willis gone. Hoe lost. In the ruling from this judge yesterday, he wrote Something Interesting that ties to the point that phil and errol are making. He said, talked about trumps efforts to capitalize on these legal woes. For some, quote, being the subject of a criminal investigation can a la rumple stilt skin make it seem more problematic. That was striking. That motion was procedurally and legally flawed. I gave it a 0 chance of success on this show i dont often do. Thankfully that turned out to be correct. Ill take issue with that statement by the judge. Theres nothing illegal about politicizing an indictment. Youre actually allowed to do that. Youre allowed to fund raise off of ive been indicted and this is unjust. Hes not saying its illegal, but hes pointing it out. The judge should not be the police of manners here. The judge should be worried about the law and conflicts of interest. Fani willis fund raised off of this case. She has used subpoenas in this case to say, hey, everyone. I just subpoenaed lindsey graham, a republican senator. Donate to me. Donald trump doing what he is doing is distasteful, perhaps manipulative as errol and phil pointed out people donating to him dont quite realize this is not going for yard signs, going for lawyers for people dont flip. Another candidate that raised a ton of money and used to be the totem for quick burn rate was ron desantis to some degree. He released his economic plan. Y