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manhattan as early as next week. this is according to five senior officials familiar with the preparations and in the worlds of unprecedented, this would be the absolute definition of it. a former president has never been criminally indicted before, never. so local law enforcement agencies are running the possible scenarios, going through potential security plans, gaming out the variables, according to the same officials, who also stress that this is a just in case no charges have been filed and nbc news cannot report that any decision has yet been made that we know of more on what this means in a moment because it could get pretty complicated we also have new reporting from the washington post that could have a significant bearing on the special counsel investigation into january 6th the post has reviewed a copy of a report called project 2020. a study trump s team paid for but never released to investigate the election results in six key states that he lost acco ....
Manhattan as early as next week. this is according to five senior officials familiar with the preparations and in the worlds of unprecedented, this would be the absolute definition of it. a former president has never been criminally indicted before, never. so local law enforcement agencies are running the possible scenarios, going through potential security plans, gaming out the variables, according to the same officials, who also stress that this is a just in case no charges have been filed and nbc news cannot report that any decision has yet been made that we know of more on what this means in a moment because it could get pretty complicated we also have new reporting from the washington post that could have a significant bearing on the special counsel investigation into january 6th the post has reviewed a copy of a report called project 2020. a study trump s team paid for ....
yeah, so after the election during the transition when former president trump was vigorously challenging the states trying to overturn the election, his campaign team commissioned a secret report where they hired an outside consulting firm called the berkeley research group to look into these different claims in all of these states, in pennsylvania, georgia, in arizona and nevada and other states to try and figure out if there was any veracity to what he was saying. what they came back and find out is that there was not. most of his claims they found to be largely unfounded or overblown. they presented these findings to trump s lawyers. for example, trump said there were 5,000 dead voters in georgia. the project said at the most there were 23. his lawyers said there were more than 1,500 dead voters in nevada the project said there were maybe 20 at most there were lots of accusations ....
But never released to investigate the election results in six key states that he lost according to the post the berkeley research group was paid more than $600,000 to look for fraud and irregularities, which the group did not find, at least not to the extent that it would make a difference. so what might that mean for prosecutors who are trying to potentially nail down donald trump s intent ahead of the insurrection joining me now is nbc news senior legal correspondent laura jarrett and the washington post political reporter who broke the story on project 2020 is josh dawsey all right, i want to begin with what s happening in new york it is significant i think to hear from jonathan dienst that u.s. officials are preparing for the president of the united states, the former president, to be indicted. this is the nypd, the new york state court officers, the u.s. secret service, the fbi s joint terrorism task force and the manhattan district attorney s ....
If he does delay and if he tries to delay, can he tell the manhattan d.a. i m not ready to come yet what can he do so it doesn t work like that in the normal case in the typical defendant, they don t really have the option of saying i don t feel like coming. again, i want to preface it with we are in uncharted territory. we have never seen a former president indicted and this former president has not been indicted so we have a long way to go here i think we should settle in because a lot could change very quickly. but he would not have the option to just say i don t feel like it. again, we do not have any reporting suggesting that a decision has yet been made josh dawsey, there are multiple investigations into donald trump, both state investigations and federal. you ve got some really interesting reporting that could affect the special counsel s investigation talking about donald trump s intent about trying to overturn the election, intent ahead of january 6th. project 2020, what ....