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hi, everyone. it's 4:00 in new york. things are getting intense for the ex-president. those viewers of this program know very well about the drip, drip, drip of new clues trump could soon be facing multiple criminal indictments from special counsel jack smith. today is no exception to the pattern of drips. in miami, one of jack smith's most senior prosecutors was back at a federal courthouse where a grand jury is meeting in the classified documents case. we should note that the washington, d.c. federal grand jury that jack smith has been working with in the january 6th investigation ...

>> andy scholes, thank you very much. "new day" continues right now. ♪ good morning, everyone. to our viewers in the united states and around the world it is wednesday july 27th, i'm john berman with brianna keilar. this morning a criminal investigation into the january 6th insurrection is moving closer to former president donald trump. cnn reports key witnesses subpoenaed by the justice department in recent days include two top aides of former vice president mike pence who were asked specifically about the fake electors scheme and the role of trump's lawyers. in addition "the ne...

Trump if he's the nominee. how do you, at a human level, process the visceral rejection of trump's presidency and the ability to say they'll vote for him again in 2024? >> well, it is an especially stunning moment for senator mcconnell. recall that what he said at the time after the conviction vote took place in the senate was that he had no doubt that donald trump was factually and ethically and morally responsible for everything that had taken place. but he felt as if the senate lacked jurisdiction to conduct a trial over a president who had already left office, which collided with more than...

Trial in the straights senate a year and a half ago where we presented compelling evidence of the president's -- former president, rather, culpability regarding the constitutional crime that he was charged with and ultimately a bipartisan vote for a conviction that fell short of the sufficient two-thirds under our constitution, but nonetheless was the most bipartisan conviction vote in the history of presidential impea impeachments. >> do you have concerns about merrick garland taking this long to get to this point? >> i don't. look, i think the determination as to whether or not the former pr...

Failing to get the requisite two thirds majority. he wasn't permanently disbarred from office. although i'm sure many republicans privately wish she had been. that said, it was nonetheless the single most bipartisan conviction vote in the country 's history. we've done four of these. and seven republican senators join the democrats and voted to convict the president of inciting insurrection. even apart from the actual impeachment. and that vote, there was a palpable sense of shock and were surrounding what donald trump had done. that was just one year. ago and thanks to the committee investiga...