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We're just learning the identity of that i.t. director, two people close to the investigation tell cnn his name is taveras, trump employee number four in that indictment. trump is also facing an additional charge for willfully retaining a top secret document about military attack plans for iran. cnn's paula reid joins me now. two categories in effect in these new charges in the classified documents indictment. tell us about the obstruction one, about deleting potential evidence here. >> that's right. all of the new legal problems in this new superseding indictment, of all of them, the biggest ...

Clean. but now these two additional pieces that we've learned sequentially from jack smith's fairly determined and methodical investigation as andrew said, obstruction one, oh, actually, let's just make sure that we don't return some of these and telling aides who know that he asked them do that. and obstruction two, let's delete the serve. and if the government can prove these things and my interpretation is that they are trying to flip mr. nauta and mr. de oliveira as key witnesses who are in a lot of trouble if they don't cooperate, if the government can prove these things and can point the...

Game where you get sponsors. there's a lot of stress. he's dealing with a lot of stress. >> dan, thanks so much for your time tonight on that. time now for cnn prime time with abby philip. good evening, everyone. i'm abby philip and this is a special edition of "cnn tonight." no need to worry. the bathroom doors lock. that is actually one of the defenses donald trump's allies are using to assure all of us that national security was not at risk at his resort home, but tonight we're going to show you why the indictment of the former president may be more of a national security case than a do...

They admit that that is what they did. as to the second article of impeachment, the obstruction one, it's also uncontested. all sides agree upon the facts that president trump, unlike any president in u.s. history, has flat-out and completely refused to acknowledge the constitutional authority of the house to conduct an impeachment. and he's refused flat out to cooperate with it or allow any witness testimony like even other impeached presidents have. they are impeaching him on those two articles for this narrow scope of his behavior that is factually uncontested to and admitted to by the pres...

Meeting as additional leverage, additional pressure behind that demand. that's all uncontested. they admit that is what they did. as for the second article of impeachment, the obstruction one, it's also uncontested. all sides agree that president trump has flat out and completely refused to acknowledge the constitutional authority of the house to conduct an impeachment. and he's refused flat out to cooperate with it or allow any witness testimony like even other impeached presidents have. they are impeaching him on those two articles for this narrow scope of his behavior that is factually unco...