focus on one bern to be great and continue to be great as he does, only the mentally strong are able to do that. >> again, ohtani will be a free agent at the end of the season. it will be fascinating to see how the angels do the rest of the way and who ends up with ohtani next year. the bidding war is going to be wild as you can imagine, erica. >> i can't even imagine how high that will go. maybe more than the current mega millions powerball jackpot and he doesn't even have to buy a ticket. andy scholes, appreciate it, thank you. "cnn this morning" continues right now. good morning, everyone. we're so glad you're with us on what is a very busy friday. happy to have erica hill by my side. let's begin here. former president donald trump charged in new crimes in the

classified documents case, and he has a new co-defendant who allegedly said the boss wanted security surveillance erased after boxes of classified material were moved out of a storage room. >> how the former president allegedly handled a classified war plan at his bedminster home. donald trump responding to these developments calling it election interference and harassment. the new charges are, quote, ridiculous. >> his attorneys meeting with the special prosecutor's office in the january 6 investigation. this as another potential indictment against the former president looms large. >> this all falls against the back drop, of course, of 2024. tonight trump and more than a dozen candidates are together in iowa. how will his opponents respond to the front-runner's legal troubles. "cnn this morning" starts right now.

we're glad you're with us, and there's a superseding indictment this morning. and there is a new co-defendant. donald trump is facing serious new charges. the special counsel is accusing the former president of trying to get surveillance video deleted at mar-a-lago notably after it was subpoenaed by the justice department. long time valet walt nauta and property manager carlos de oliveira are accused of helping in the scheme. they say nauta abruptly changed travel plans and then secretly headed to mar-a-lago. he met up with de oliveira and went to the security booth and went around the property with a flashlight, through a tunnel, pointing out where cameras were located. they say de oliveira brought the i.t. expert to a privateoom and according to the indictment

this was their conversation. he told the i.t. expert the conversation should remain between the two of them and asked how long a server kept footage. the i.t. expert said he thought around 4days. de oliveira then said that, quote, the boss wanted the server deleted. when the i.t. expert pushed back de oliveira said the boss want it had gone and asked, what are we going to do? >> the timing matters a lot. de oliveira was sold the cameras caught about the last 45 days of footage and if you go back that would include the time trump allegedly have nauta move boxes around mar-a-lago to hide them from federal investigators and notably from his own attorney. the indictment contains an additional charge related to a top-secret document of iran attack plans, the fact trump discussed it with biographers during a taped meeting in july

2021. cnn obtained the audio exclusively. take a listen. >> this wasn't done by me. this was him. all sorts of stuff, pages long. let's see here. i just -- isn't that amazing? this totally wins my case, you know. except it is highly confidential. >> joining us now legal analyst elie honig. what's new against the former president? >> a bad situation has gotten worse. let's talk about exactly what's new in the superseding, as we call it, chapter two of the indictment. donald trump is now charged with 32 counts of retention of national defense. it was 31. there's one additional document and, boy, is that an important document.

this is what he is talking about in the ouaudio tape. he's not president anymore, is showing this to outsiders, bragging about it. during that meeting donald trump says to them this is secret information. look at this. now he has said there was no document. he said it to fox news. guess what, there was a document. doj has it and now donald trump is charged with that. he now faces eight counts related to obstruction and false statements. it was six. now he has two more accounts. the general allegation is donald trump requested security footage be deleted at the mar-a-lago club to prevent it from being provided to a federal grand jury. there are two levels of obstruction now. one is the moving around of

these boxes to keep them away from lawyers, the fbi the grand jury, but the second level where the allegation is donald trump and the other co-defendants got together, conspired, came up with a plan. let's get rid of this surveillance footage. >> the why is really key in this allegation. >> and they had just gotten the subpoena. >> let's talk about the new co-defendant. >> we went from two defendants to this third person, carlos de oliveira. we don't have a photo of him yet. a couple of interesting things here about the mechanics of what will happen. will they be tried together or will the government, will the defendants try to split them into separate trials? that's going to be ultimately up to the judge. carlos de oliveira, now he is faced with federal indictment, criminal charges, potential jail time, will he decide to cooperate against either of the other two? we shall see. we don't have a good indication either way. de oliveira is charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice, crucial in working with trump employee four to delete that

surveillance video. he's charged with devstroying te video and he gave an interview to the fbi. they asked him straight up, do you know anything about the boxes being moved? he says, no, no, i don't know anything. one thing that is important to note when we talk about this conspiracy, it's based largely on testimony that will come from this trump employee four based on what de oliveira told him. >> and who is trump employee four? what is his or her credibility? those are things the defense will dig into. elie, stay with us. erica? >> joining us cnn political commentator, former white house communications director and chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst john m miller. there's been so much made and obviously elie was talking about it, about the time line here, john. when you look at what we know, the fact in the indictment they're saying, when they're talking about the video, that de

oliveira and nauta are going through the tunnel, have flash flights and are looking at cameras which suggests they perhaps have that footage. >> the time line tells the story. they go down this tunnel that leads to the storage room with their flashlights. they're looking at the cameras and then the next thing in the time line the conversation with the technology boss in the server room saying how can we delete parts or the whole server? the other question is, and this will be really interesting when we find out, it is charged as attempting to delete the server. does that mean they delete it had and thought it was gone and the fbi went in, as i've seen them do in prior cases, and went into the depths of the memories and recovered deleted material, or they couldn't figure out how to execute it. either way, the story is they were trying to get rid of the visual story of, a, were the boxes moved and when and, b, searching for the cameras. >> the other thing that really

stood out is, alyssai home you can speak to this, the relationships that hbe laid out here. walt nauta is supposed to travel with the former president. instead,shifts gears. he's going down to mar-a-lago, is talking t oliveira. he's helping to spread the messages. just talk to us a little bit about what that relationship, based on your experience, is like with the former president and the pressure that's potentially applied. >> well, i think what stood out to me in this was there's this 24-minute phone call by the former president where that's an extremely long time for president trump to talk to someone who is not a family aide or a family member. it's very odd. there is a power discrepancy. walt did serve in the white house. if donald trump is re-electeded, it wouldn't be shockinif he this kind of maintenance manager, this is, let'll him junior person who works at mar-a-lago, i can image felt some sort of pressure. i would guess if he has outside counsel and is not having his counsel provided for by the

former president, it would make a lot of sense for him to sever. there's going to be pressure there. i imagine that he felt like he needed to cooperate with what the former president was instructing him to do. this is donald trump's playbook. he pressures people around him. he clearly bypassed his lawyers and wanted to work with these two individuals to obstruct. these guys are in a very bad position now because of it. >> alyssa hits on a really important point, and this is right out of the donald trump playbook, he pays for lawyers for people around him. that's not illegal. it's more common than people recognize. it happens in corporate cases, organized criminal activity it happens a lot, but it naturally has the effect of making it really difficult to break away, a, because you don't know exactly where your lawyer's loyalty sits and, b, it's expensive if you have to hire your own lawyer. we'll see how that plays here. >> there's a little bit of a scrum which is you have now three defendants being paid for

legally, their attorneys, by donald trump , who have extraordinarily legal divergent issues in the case. donald trump will be, i don't know what they were doing, they took this on and did it. their defense is we thought this was on the level because the boss told us to go ahead and do it. this is the kind of case any lawyer would say, need a severance to have a separate trial from this guy, and that might apply to all three of them when the first defendant is paying for all your attorneys, that becomes challenging. >> it reminds mean of the january 6th investigation where staffers around donald trump ended up getting him to cover their legal bills because many of them were young, junior staffers and couldn't afford expensive retainers. it kept them from sharing information their attorneys potential ly said you don't nee to share that. only share what you're asked. it's an effective tool trump uses. >> who are those lawyers really

representing? >> and when they got different attorneys they came back with much different testimony. trial date here, does it move because of this? >> i think i've said to you before in pencil, now get out the eraser. there's no way this may 2024 trial date holds. the judge set 33 for deadlines. now we're back to square one. this thing is going -- >> why square one? there's significant additional charges, but -- >> the problem is you have a new defendant now who is literally at square one and you have these new charges against donald trump. there will be new discovery. he may have new motions. i will say, also, it's not great form by doj to go in front of the judge two weeks ago or so and beg for a trial date in december when they knew they were going to do this superseding indictment. you don't have to say it, but usually you would signal to a judge and you wouldn't say we need a quick trial date when you knew were you bringing a bigger, more complicated --

>> you say they knew this was happening. de oliveira is mentioned but not by name in the original indictment. that changes now that that has been replaced with the superseding indictment. there's a name in there. could it be that, and i'm guessing as the nonlawyer here, could it be they thought they were going to get him when they went to the judge, they didn't, and now they're like, okay, we're going to charge you. >> it's possible all of this came to their attention in the last 10, 12 days or so since they last were in front of the judge. we don't know that. superseding indictments take a while to put together. this adds substantial new charges and a whoem new defendant. this may trial date is not going to hold. i already had doubts. now they've added this. as much as this indictment is bad news for trump, that one piece of good news for donald trump may swamp the bad news because if he can get this kicked after the trial, that's the ultimate strategy. >> tell people why. >> of course his only legal defense is winning the presidential election. he's not running on a forward

looking message. he hasn't laid out a policy message for the american public. he wants to get elected so he can run the department of justice, do away with these charges. that is why he's running for president. >> final thought? >> if you look at this in context, this isn't a new indictment, it's a superseder and at least in the calendar of what prosecutors say they have coming two more indictments in the oven. you have georgia and january 6. this is a bit of a justice juggernaut focused on donald trump that will complicate his life. the weird thing is every time this happens, that message goes out donald trump needs your help, money comes in, polls go up. somewhere in a dark room ron desantis is trying to figure out how can i get indicted -- >> not sure that's the new campaign shift he needs, but okay. >> political consulting. >> there is a reboot. >> there is. maybe it will take a turn. thank you.

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donald trump is running for president in order for him to stay out of jail. these are serious crimes. these are serious accusations. donald trump is a national security risk. this is a level of criminality that i don't think we've seen before. maybe richard nixon. >> that was former congressman, republican, i should say, and former cia officer will herd is also running for president. the former president railing against the latest charges in

this superseding indictment calling them, quote, election interference at the highest level. what does the former defense attorney for trump during his second impeachment think? happy to be joined this morning, david, your words to us on june 8 before this, you did not believe in any way trump knew or believed he was doing anything wrong or illegal. you've read the superseding indictment, do you still believe that? >> i do and mr. hurd has forgotten about the presumption of innocence. it's very easy to get a witness to say anything, quite frankly. >> we don't know trump's defense, that's correct, but these are very detailed allegations, documents that they have in a superseding indictment, prosecutors say they have about that iran document about attack plans that you hear on the audio tape cnn obtained that he is showing it to

multiple people with no right to see it, with no classification clearance. you also have surveillance video, it appears, from this, on page 4 of the superseding indictment, it is alleged he attempted to delete security video and the allegation is it happened after the subpoena for that footage. >> what i would say is very importantly, i think, what we have here -- let's take, for example, the alleged deletion of the video. we have a he said, that nauta said, that trump said -- we have rules of evidence for very important reasons to ensure some level of reliability. remember, in this process the government has all of the leverage. so if a witness, for example -- why is it we're seeing a superseding indictment? take it back a step. they just had a scheduling conference with the judge. the judge ought to be upset that the judge wasn't given any warning there would be a superseding indictment.

is this new evidence or did they turn the screws on mr. de oliveira, that he said this, said nauta said this, trump said this. why is this happening now? there are a number of things i would say about the indictment. why do we see in counts 32 and 38 allegedly false statements that the lawyer supposedly made attributed to trump and nauta and the lawyers aren't charged in the case? i do think there's a real -- this is done for public consumption at a minimum, a real speaking indictment, republican assumption. >> i'm interested in the fact that ty cobb, a lawyer in the trump white house, what he said to erin burnett, because he totally disagrees with you. here is what he said. >> i came to this original indictment engineered 1,000 years and the superseding will last into antiquity.

>> i don't even know what he means. >> he means it's strong. >> president trump's former -- look, the allegations are very serious and detailed. no one can reasonably say otherwise. i'm saying to you it's important to keep in mind these are the allegations. remember this about mr. smith, for example. the lawyers tried to talk him out of indicting. he went forward with it. an article on "the hill" suggests his evaluation of evidence, its strength and reliability, is questionable. there's a real agenda here, i believe. that's why we see an indictment for public consumption like this. this is an unusual indictment. if there's an advantage to defense lawyers to have these details, how to prepare cross-examination now but unfair to have a protective order in place so defense lawyers can't really respond in the way the indictment is read. >> i would like to focus in on charge 32 about the document that is about an attack plan on

i iran, because here is how former president trump described that encounter caught on audio tape which, by the way, cnn obtained. we played it for viewers. here is how trump described that, tried to defend himself in an interview with fox news. >> there was no document. that was a massive amount of papers and everything else talking about iran and other things, and it may have been held up or may not, but that was not a document. i didn't have a document, per se. there was nothing to declassify. these were newspaper stories, magazine stories and articles. >> prosecutors say they have the document. if you're in trial, you see them present this into evidence, you then listen to the audio tape of trump waving the document around before all of those people, how do you defend that? how is that not criminal, if that's what happens? >> sure. would i have to know what the source is and the basis is for them saying that is the document and there was a document. right now i take president trump at his word, like i take any defendant at his or her word,

and that's what the presumption of innocence means. >> mark meadows also wrote about the document in his book. what about, finally, the charges against nauta and de oliveira? do you think they're being overbearing, prosecutors here? why? because they allege de oliveira, the new defendant, lied to them in this voluntary interview, that he saw nothing after they allege that he was helping move these boxes around. >> right. so, remember, it's the prosecutors who bring these allegations. they basically draw it up for the grand jury. and so they decide who lied and who told the truth. and often what we see in many cases over many years, including some members of this prosecution team, is that they decide a lie means that the person won't cooperate and give their version of events. they have tremendous leverage. they have all of the leverage in this case. i'll tell you right now, i have a sanctions hearing requested against two of the prosecutors on mr. smith's team.

listen, we don't know what's happening until this case goes to trial, quite frankly. >> final question for you is the separate meeting trump's lawyers had with jack smith's team yesterday on a separate potential indictment that has to do with january 6th and alleged election interference and attempts to overturn the election, trump said on truth social, my lawyers went there and they told the prosecutors this would be bad for the country to bring. do you think that's a valid reason not to charge? >> i think that's something like a prudential principle of prosecution for them to consider. i think this is where you consider how have we handled situations like this in the past and so on which i don't think is what about-ism. equal application of law. these two attorneys blanche and lauro were going to convince him not to prosecute is either naive or misguided and to show your defense would be particularly

misguided, but difference of opinion, i suppose. >> different lawyers. david schoen, appreciate the time. thank you. >> thank you. >> good interview, poppy. concerns are mounting about the capabilities of some of the oldest members of congress at 90. democratic senator dianne feinstein is the oldest u.s. lawmaker. she has been in frail helps since a shingles diagnosis earlier this year. since her return to the capitol she has appeared confused at times including yesterday when the senator had to be corrected and told to vote during a senate hearing. >> the clerk will call the roll. >> senator feinstein? >> say aye. >> pardon me? >> aye. >> yeah. i would like to support a yes vote on this. it provides 823 billion -- that's an increase of 26 billion for the department of defense,

and it funds priorities submitted -- >> just say aye. >> okay. >> aye. >> aye. >> this, of course, comes on the heels of senate majority leader mitch mcconnell who is 81 who froze earlier this week in the midst of a news conference. that happened on wednesday. froze for 23 seconds. he was then escorted away from reporters. he did return afterwards to answer questions. look, it's a delicate conversation, but it is one that is being had more and more out in the open. what are you hearing from senator feinstein's office about that moment in particular? >> erica, it is a really delicate conversation, and it is not really new to the u.s. senate. there have been senators in the past who have had cognitive issues in the u.s. senate, senators who have aged here in a way that really made it hard for them to do their jobs, but

senator feinstein's office reacting to that moment in the appropriations committee saying it was really chaotic in the room, that they were voting and they were really switching quickly between debate and a final vote on the defense appropriations bill and the senator just got confused. a spokesman from her office said the senator was preoccupied, didn't realize debate had just ended and a vote was calle she started to give a statement, was informed it was a vote and then cast her vote, and up see that moment where her staffer comes up to her, whispers in her ear, it's time to actually vote. and then you hear patty murray, the chairman of that committee, saying just say aye. that is obviously a moment where dianne feinstein is really trying to find her way in the committee, but we should note, she's been out for several months. she was out of the u.s. senate while she was undergoing shingles and complications from shingles. she returned in june after there

were some democrats who actually called for her to resign arguing that her absence was having an effect on the pace at which the biden administration could confirm judicial nominees. but om obviously in the wake of what we saw with mcconnell this week, there are questions whether or not there needs to be some kind of age cutoff for members of congress. i will note that many of mcconnell's colleagues, republicans and democrats, said they have full confidence that mcconnell can do the job. erica? >> appreciate the reporting, thank you. bronny james back home resting after suffering a cardiac arrest earlier this week during basketball practice. we're going to show you the traumatic 911 call next. al custs your car insurance... so you only pay for what you need. that's my boy. now you get t out there, and you make us proud, huh? ♪ bye, uncle limu. ♪

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cnn has obtained the 911 call from an individual who called to ask for that ambulance initially. take a listen. >> get an ambulance here now. >> okay, all right, sir. all right, sir. i'm going to send help. where exactly -- >> yes, i'll wait for you. >> we're going to send help. don't hang up, sir. don't hang up. your telephone -- >> yes. >> let's get next to him. how old is he? get next to him with the phone. >> get next to him? >> get next to him, please, with the phone. i need to find out is there a doctor on scene with him or a registered nurse? >> no. >> help is already on the way. get next to him, please. >> cnn has not been able to independently verify whether medical staff was on the scene at the time of the call. you heard they were asked about a doctor orers in. joining us is dr. sanjay gupta. good morning, sanjay. based on what you hear in the call, everybody very call but

they want to get the phone next to bronny james. what else are you picking up in those moments? >> that's the big thing. you see how fast that moves, that was less than 30 seconds, they're saying get next to him. i think some of that was redacted. you can hear gaps in the call. they want him to check for a pulse, hopefully someone has already sent for a defibrillator, and they may have asked that person and instructed that person on the phone how to do cpr. so we know whatever happened, and, again, that's just a portion of it, it was a fast resuscitation. i don't know how long it took for paramedics to get there. by the time bronny got to the hospital he was conscious, doing better and able to be released from the icu quickly. >> how promising that he was released so quickly? >> two thing, etches released from the hospital which is obviously good news. i don't read into that as much because sometimes people will keep patients in the hospital longer out of an abundance of

caution. the really good news, the encouraging sign, how quickly he was released from the intensive care unit, what does that mean? he's stable and his heart function is normal. it doesn't mean there aren't investigations to be done, but that was a really good sign. >> we don't yet know what caused cardiac arrest, but what would doctors be looking for to determine that, sanjay? >> there's a few sort of broad categories of things. i'll show you. they would want to look if there was something anatomically different about his heart in some way, some of the large blood vessels, some of the muscle that involves putting an ultrasound on the chest and taking a look. he had that done as a prospective player and it was normal. they would want to look at the electrical patterns in the heart, if there was an electrical pattern. he had an ekg done in the past which we also heard was normal. now they may want to check those

electrical rhythms over a period of time. is there some sort of abnormality we're not catching on a single photo, if you will, of the heart. that's something that can be done on an outpatient basis. blood tests and thingsike that as well. and they canake time to get an answer, but those are the types of tests. >> the most upon thing is he's okay, that he survived this. if he chooses to go back and play basketball at the level he was playing, when will you know and how do you determine if he can and what the health risks may be going forward? >> some of this will be a combination of science and judgment. they're going to do these tests -- let's say all the tests come back normal and there's no clear underlying cause as to what happened here. i think there may still be a period of time where they just want to be careful, monitor him and make sure that there's nothing else. but keep in mind, first of all, from a 2015 study, this happened

6,000 to 7,000 times a year among young athletes. there can be a variety of reasons. if you look across the board, there's about a 15% chance of recurrence within the first year. but that's across the board for all causes. in this case since there's the testing we heard from a couple months ago was normal and if everything comes back normal, he has a much higher chance of returning. one of his teammates the same sort of thing happened to him last year and he was back playing within a few months, i think seven months. >> hoping for the best, full recovery obviously. dr. gupta, thank you, sanjay. this just in to cnn. barriers are being put up outside the courthouse in fulton county, georgia. the sheriff's office says it is proactively coordinating with agencies to enhance security during high-profile proceedings. what does that tell us about potential charges related to donald trump and his allies'

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good morning. so glad you are with us on this busy friday. so happy to have you by my side, erica hill. huge developments. donald trump is facing new felony charges, including explosive allegations that he tried to get surveillance video deleted a at mar-a-lago after it was speed. we are going to speak with trump's former fixer michael cohen. >> this comes as the former president, of course, is pushing for a second term, set to speak in iowa tonight. we will be sharing the stage with rivals for the gop nomination, so the question, will they pounce on the new indictment or come to trump's defense? half the united states this morning under dangerous heat again as extreme temperatures spread to the northeast. this hour of "cnn this morning" starts now. ♪