Wavering on him ahead of next years elections. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this tuesday, august 1st. We are in august already. I am jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. And well begin this new month with a possible new indictment against former President Donald Trump for his alleged efforts to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 election. The grand jury Hearing Testimony in special counsel jack smiths investigation is expected to be back in session in washington today. Now its been two weeks since trump announced on social media that he received a Target Letter, which is an indication that charges could be brought in the very near future. That letter suggested that the former president could face charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States, Depriving Voters of their rights, and witness tampering. Trump seems prepared to be preparing for another federal indictment against him, posting yesterday on truth social that he assumes one will be coming, quote, any day now. Now to the other federal case against trump where he has already been charged for his alleged mishandling of classified documents including Nuclear Secrets after he left the white house. Yesterday the recently named third defendant in the case maralago property manager Car Lois De Oliveira made his first appearance in a miami courtroom. He was charged with four counts related to his efforts allegedly to erase Security Camera footage from trumps palm beach home. That footage was monitoring a room where classified boxes were were being stored. According to prosecutors the order to destroy the footage came from trump directly and were given to both deoliveira and the former president s valet. Because the property manager had not yet hired a florida based attorney he was not able to enter a plea yesterday. Deoliveira was released on 100,000 bond and due back in Court On August 10th for an arraignment. Joining us now, former litigator and now msnbc legal analyst, lisa ruben. Lisa, good morning. Always great to see you. Theres so much legal peril facing donald trump right now, but lets begin with the classified documents case. Youve got a new piece out for msnbcs website where you highlight the importance of the person identified as Trump Employee 4. Thats not walt nauta. Thats not carlos de oliveira, thats someone else playing a key role in this new Superseding Indictment. Tell us what we know. We know that Trump Employee 4 is a gentleman named Yucil Taveras who worked for the Trump Organization and specifically at maralago. We also know from reporting nbc news has not independently confirmed that Yucil Taveras received a Target Letter. And we know that Yucil Taveras as Trump Employee 4 likely provided prosecutors with information directly incorporated into this Superseding Indictment. If it were not for Yucil Taveras prosecutors would not know for example de oliveira went to him and essentially said the boss wants the footage deleted. That comes from a witness mouth. In my piece i describe how without independently confirming Yucil Taveras received a Target Letter, there are signs all along that Yucil Taveras having received that Target Letter and seen the initial indictment against trump and walt nauta decided he had what to provide to prosecutors. We do know hes an extremely valuable witness without whom the details then Superseding Indictment would not have been known. And nauta continues to follow the former president around the country for his campaign. But, lisa, you know, theres a lot of speculation that today could be the day for the indictment of donald trump in what has been shorthanded as the january 6th investigation, which of course includes all his actions after the 2020 election, and we should note we dont know for sure its today or it would come this week, but as soon as that Target Letter was sent, the clock started ticking. Walk us through what today would look like for this grand jury in washington were today were to be today . If the day were today, john, the fore person of the jury grants a true bill which is essentially the process of voting yes on an indictment, would carry that indictment to the courtroom of a Magistrate Judge in a federal courthouse in washington, d. C. The rules there require that the Courtroom Doors are actually open when its presented. They may go to Great Lengths to avoid being detected, but those Courtroom Doors will have to be open, and then the judge will note the initials of any defendants in that indictment. Its not the practice locally to actually say the defendants name but note the defendants initials. If the government decides they dont want to seal that indictment it will go immediately to the clerks office, it will be filed and well learn about it shortly thereafter i suspect. I also think the special counsels office learned a lesson from the initial indictment in miami in the records investigation where having sealed the indictment, trump told the world that he had been indicted and the special counsels office had their hands tied. They couldnt say anything because that indictment wud was under seal. I expect if theres an indictment today or in the coming days we will learn about it in realtime with the rest of the world maybe moments after donald trump and his own attorneys do. And of course we will have our eyes trained on that courthouse in washington, d. C. All day today. Former litigator and msnbc legal analyst lisa rubin, im certain well to you again soon. Thank you for joining us this morning. These two federal cases is not the only legal trouble donald trump is facing. A judge in georgia has denied yet another attempt by the former president s legal team to stop Fulton CountyDistrict Attorney fani willis investigation into izalleged election interference in that state. This is the second ruling against the trump team in as many weeks as it tries to find a way to end the investigation before willis announces potential charges. A third petition to the court is scheduled for August 10th Hearing. In the ninepage ruling the judge yesterday found neither the former president nor one of his allies also challenging the probe had the legal standing to quash the investigation. Trumps lawyers argued that he would be hurt by an indictment. But in the ruling the judge seemed to disagree writing this, for some being the subject of a Criminal Investigation can ala rumple stilt kn be turned into Global Political calple making it seem more providential than problematic. It does not yield standing to bring claim to halt that investigation in court. This as Willis Office could announce indictments at any day. In an interview over the weekend she confirmed that her investigation is in its final stages saying, quote, were ready to go. One wonders if that August 10th Hearing will have to happen first before any indictments are issued there in Fulton County. There are also growing questions this morning about Donald TrumpsSave America Pac and how much money it has spent on legal fees to defend trump, his advisers and others. According to a new Campaign Finance report filed yesterday the pac spent more than 20 million on legal fees during the First Six Months of the year. That is half the amount that the Washington Post and the New York Times reported over the weekend. They reported the pac spent 40 million during that time. Nbc news has reached out to the Trump Campaign about the discrepancy in these numbers. According to the federal Election Commission filing the 20 million sum included payments doled out to more than 40 different law firms as the pac covers Legal Expenses for trump and his of those associates drawn into these multiple investigations probing trumps conduct in and out of office. The pac raised most of its money from small donor contributions, his supporters. Meantime the pac is nearly broke after paying tens of millions of dollars in legal fees. The times reveals the pac has less than 4 million left in its account after beginning last year with 105 million. Well bring you the latest on ukraine as moscow reports a second day of Drone Attacks there. 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