donald trump tried to alter, destroy, mutilate and conceal evidence, just some of the stunning new allegations in the documents case. new charges, a new defendant, new accusations of lies, all coming as for the first time donald trump appears at a campaign event with his

republican opponents. we are also watching for another possible indictment against the former president, this one tied to january 6th and his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. what we're learning about the meeting between the special counsel and trump's lawyers. new scrutiny on the memphis police department after the january beating death of tyre nichols. kate and sara are off today, i'm john berman with rahel solomon and this is "cnn news central." ♪ i will say the words again, donald trump tried to alter, destroy, mutilate and conceal evidence. those are just some of the allegations in the major new charges unveiled against the former president in the mar-a-lago documents case. charges that come as a different grand jury inches closer to possibly indicting trump for events surrounding january 6th. and just to complicate things more, in a few hours for the

first time trump will appear at a campaign event with his fellow republican candidates. this is quite a day. first, the updated superseding indictment, special counsel jack smith now alleges that two trump employees, long time aide walt nauta and property manager carlos de oliveira attempted to delete security camera footage the at trump's florida home at trump's request. prosecutors argue that de oliveira who has been added to the case adds a defendant told the oath director that, quote, the boss wanted the server deleted. the indictment for the first time is now revealing a detailed at times minute by minute timeline of events, including what allegedly happened right after trump was told his surveillance video was being subpoenaed. on june 24, 2022 the indictment states at 1:25 p.m. trump attorney one spoke with trump by phone regarding the subpoena. at 3:44 p.m. nauta received a text message from a co-worker

indicating that trump wanted to see nauta. less than two hours later nauta who was scheduled to travel with trump to illinois the next day changed his travel schedule and began to make arrangements to go to palm beach, florida, instead. that interaction a key driver of two brand-new obstruction charges that trump now faces. he also received one additional count of willful retention of national defense information. he was already facing 37 federal charges. that's where de oliveira who prosecutors say personally helped move box was nauta at trump's behest, he is also facing construction charges as well as lying to the fbi after he allegedly told a federal agent he never saw anything. of course, all of this comes as trump has been bracing for another possible criminal indictment 12 days have now passed since jack smith informed trump that he is a target of the election interference probe and don't forget that this happens the same day that for the first time trump will appear on the same page as the other

republican candidates, including ron desantis. so this is a busy, important day. sara murray begins our coverage with the very latest on these new charges. sara, out of seemingly in russell westbrook. what do we know? >> john, i think obviously the biggest deal is donald trump is already facing several charges, now he's facing several more, another is a willful retention of documents charge related to that sensitive iran document that we have talked about before that he showed to meeting in a meeting but the other ones is a prosecutor said was a scheme to delete video, altering, destroying, mult lags or destroying an object or document, record or other object. as they lay it out in the indictment essentially there's this new aide that we're hearing of, carlos de oliveira, who is now a defendant in this case who trump appears to tap as part of this scheme to try to delete the

surveillance video. it's after the government has been to mar-a-lago, they've subpoenaed him to return all documents with classification markings and when they go to pick it up they notice that there are these surveillance cameras outside of the storage room where these documents are being kept. they subpoena the trump organization for these surveillance videos. so after that subpoena it's late june 2022 and de oliveira a talking to another trump employee about the surveillance footage and according to the indictment he asks this other trump employee how many days this server retains the footage. the employee says it's 45 days. de oliveira then goes to the trump employee and says, you know, the boss wants the server deleted, and he asks what are we going to do? so that's really the heart of this scheme to three to delete this surveillance footage that is new this this indictment. let's go back to that additional willful retention of documents charge because this is a document we have talked a lot about. donald trump talked about it in

a meeting he had in july of 2021 at bedminster with folks who were writing a book about mark meadows. take a listen to how donald trump talked about that document at the time. >> this was the defense department and him. we looked at some. this was him. this wasn't done by me, this was him. all sorts of stuff. pages long. wait a minute, let's see here. i just found -- isn't that amazing? this totally wins my case, you know, except it is highly confidential. >> and, john, this is since the first version of this indictment came out, since the tape came out trump had said he had no document it was all bravado, the government making clear this this new indictment that was not the case. >> as we said, a big development amid so many others. sara murray, thank you for bringing us up to speed on this, i expect we will be speaking to you again soon. thank you. rahel? john, let's go over now what

we know about this new defendant. right now it's not a lot. carlos de oliveira as we said is his name and he is the property manager at mar-a-lago. he was previously a valet there. we know that he's 56 years old and he's now accused of helping move boxes of documents after the justice department first subpoenaed the former president, this happened in may of last year. de oliveira spoke with the fbi earlier this year in january and that's when investigators say he lied about helping or knowing about moving the boxes. well, he has now been charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice, destroying or concealing a document, record or other object, and making false statements. now, we should say that cnn has reached out to his lawyer, john irving. we have not heard back, but irving is among the lawyers whose firm received nearly $200,000 in payments for legal services from donald trump's save america pact. de oliveira is scheduled to be arraigned in federal court in miami and that is expected to happen this monday.

>> so many more things to watch. >> we will be watching that. okay. with us now former federal prosecutors renato marriiotti a john miller. renato, let me start with you, what's different this morning than was yesterday? yes, donald trump faces these additional charges, but what if anything about these charges makes his legal predicament different? >> well, one thing, john, is they now have found the document that was being referred to in that recording we just heard. i think that's important. ultimately that is some of the best evidence that jack smith has. it's evidence that makes it clear that trump admits that the document wasn't declassified. we now know in the indictment that document was top secret. he's going to be able to show that document to the jury. i think that's important. and, look, trying to delete and destroy surveillance footage, that is very explosive and it's

just going to be hard to explain away. all of the stuff about classified documents for a lot of people might be hard to get their heads around, but it's very hard for me to believe that jurors are going to not be able to understand that when you're deleting footage when the fbi is investigating you, you know, that means you know you've done something wrong. >> renato, stand by for a moment i want to bring john miller into this conversation. john, just the pure amount of investigation that went into this, thinking about potentially putting this in front of a jury when you have so much audio, photos, surveillance. i mean, in ternls of the prosecutors being able to say, hey, don't even i think listen to what we're telling you he did, you can hear this and see this for yourself. talk about how powerful that is potentially for the prosecutors. >> well, the timeline that was just laid out on this broadcast really tells a story, but if you dig just one layer deeper, the original indictment's focus was, first, you have these documents you shouldn't -- they shouldn't be there, they shouldn't be in

your possession. the second piece is the obstruction, which is when we demanded these documents back, we see on videotape people moved them around. so you're trying to hide them and you lied to your lawyer about it who made false representations to us because he believed it could be true. but this is a layer deeper because when you bring a charge that says that multiple people conspired, allegedly on instructions from donald trump, to not just obstruct justice by moving the things around, but then tried to find and delete the videos that showed them moving them around, you are in a new zone here because you have an obstruction of justice being committed to conceal the original obstruction of justice charge. >> an obstruction on top of another obstruction. >> it's an obstruction of an obstruction. you know, that really kind of fills out in the superseding

indictment the conspiracy where donald trump reached deliberately past his lawyers who presumably would have said you can't do this and literally to the lowest levels of the organization, people who might be expendable, his valet, the head of may not jens and said, you know, take care of these things. there is a reason he bypassed all of those attorneys. >> does it get to double secret probation, obstruction of obstruction of justice is a form i think of double secret probation. does that get, renato, to consciousness of guilt? does it affect some of the other aspects of the case? >> i think it does. i think, first of all, it's going to affect the evidence that can introduced under the laws of evidence, a lot more statements i think will come in. i think importantly i think ultimately at the end of the day, john, that jurors when they look at a case like this or any serious case, what they're really interested in was was the defendant in on it? was he doing something illegal, wrong and for someone like

donald trump who was the president of the united states, you know, he's going to be trying to argue that he thought what he was doing was fine and right all along. this is something that everybody knows is not okay. everyone knows is illegal and i think that's why it's a very powerful piece of evidence. i could see why prosecutors were willing to even risk delaying the case in order to add it. >> renato, let me ask, do you think that the special counsel's office likely knew that this was potentially coming a few weeks ago when they pushed for that december -- which a lot of people said was a very ambitious start date -- do you think they had this in the back of their minds and i wonder how that plays in terms of the ultimate start date. >> great question. i think that this superseding indictment represents a tactical call by jack smith that he does not think that he's going to be able to speed this trial out, you know, and get it done before the election. so he made a decision that he might as well have all of his bullets in his gun. in other words, this is not something you do if you are

trying to get this done quickly before the election. i think he took his shot at that and that did not work, aileen cannon said, no, we're going to do this in may. realistically i think any experienced criminal defense attorney knows not hard to push a may trial a few months or more, so practically speaking that was a very remote possibility. here he has an opportunity to get a potential flipper, you know, if de oliveira feels pressured on this and of course some very important additional evidence. >> that is a key point because anytime you bring charges on someone lower in the food chain, there is that possibility that that person could flip. property manager, clearly that -- you know, john, in your career both in law enforcement and journalism, you've dealt with the mob quite a bit. when you were talking about the idea of someone at the top of the pyramid interacting with someone at the bottom, it gets to some of the difficulty in going after the mob, per se, which is in these charges it suggests that, you know, that de

oliveira basically said the boss told me -- third person is saying de oliveira said the boss said he wanted this destroyed. ultimately there is that middle person there. i mean, how do you prove that? >> so there is a couple of things going on here. number one, he is the head of maintenance at mar-a-lago. the fact that a donald trump fund has paid $200,000 to attorneys representing him prior to him being charged or even mentioned by name in this case tells us a lot. it suggests that prosecutors and fbi agents may have been working with those attorneys and de oliveira to say do you want to come on team america, you know, are you willing to cooperate, what will you tell us? and clearly that didn't happen because he's been charged. but what we're also seeing is, you know, the old adage about an airplane being built while in flight. you have an enormously complex case where the stakes literally could not be higher, unless it was a sitting president, and

they are with superseding indictments and trying to flip people and unveiling new evidence building this case while they have a may trial date. now, the may trial date, aileen cannon and all of us know that that was a placeholder to make sure the lawyers didn't just sit back and say, well, we have a couple of years to sort this out. place holders are meant to be moved. so, you know, the parallel of this in the mob case is the other teflon don, john gadi, you know, he called the shorts on the defense, he paid for everybody else's lawyers and he went down when somebody from the inside flipped and talked. >> all right. john miller, renato, thank you very much. we will have to see. >> we will be talking to you both for sure. thank you both. coming up for us, will the former president soon face a third indictment? we are also closely watching the special counsel's investigation into the alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election. and trump heading to iowa today to join ron desantis and

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of activity, even at this hour yesterday the grand jury was already in, we saw a number of prosecutors, an unusually large number of prosecutors from jack smith's office had arrived and so everybody was certainly aware that there's something that could be in the offing, certainly because it's been about 12 days since the former president got this target letter from jack smith, the prosecutor there, the special counsel, basically warning him that an indictment would be imminent. and then of course the former president's lawyers turned up for a meeting with jack smith and his team and according to, you know, our sources and according to the former president himself, this was an effort essentially to try to tell the special counsel that, you know, taking this additional action of bringing a new indictment would further destroy the country. i will read you a part of what the former president posted on his social media platform. he says my attorneys had a

productive meeting with the doj this morning explaining in detail that i did nothing wrong, was advised by many lawyers and that an indictment of me would only further destroy our country. that reference to i was advised by many lawyers is basically trump's defense for everything that happened after january 6 -- i'm sorry, leading up to january 6 after he had already lost the election and he was trying to contest the voting results. so we still anticipate that an indictment is coming at any moment, at any time. we are waiting to see whether the grand jury shows up. they typically show up only on tuesdays and thursdays and so if they did come in today, of course, it would be unusual and we're watching for that, rahel. >> unusual and perhaps very noteworthy. evan perez live for us there. thank you. >> what about this isn't unusual at this point? >> touché. >> it's this ocean of unusualness. with us now cnn political commentator van jones. great to see you. there's one aspect of this that you were talking to me about in

back stage that shouldn't be lost here which is the human side of this. yes, there's this new defendant in this case, people look at this and say the property manager carlos de oliveira, this employee at mar-a-lago, why doesn't he just flip and tell federal investigators everything he knows because he clearly knows something. >> you know, i just think that we can sometimes lose track of what it would be if you are just a regular everyday person, working a job, suddenly you get a chance to work for somebody like a donald trump, somebody who is world famous, a former president. you know, your mom is proud of you, you have something to tell your neighbors when you go home. your thanksgiving dinners are very interesting now because you can talk about stuff. this is something that's really important to you. all of a sudden this guy is in trouble and asks to you do something for him. it's really, really tough. you think about peer pressure, this is what your kids go through at school. think about peer pressure. the peer pressure to move that box and stay in good graces is tremendous. everybody will say you are a

fool, you are in a cult. >> cut a deal. >> if he does it it's a big deal in his life. if he doesn't do it he is in a lot of trouble. let's not underestimate the peer pressure when you are a part of something and now the whole thing flips on you. >> i wonder not only of course is trump world famous but he was signing his check, there is that part of this, too. what are your thoughts about the fact that at least from what we know a lot of the legal fees are being paid from trump's pac. there is clearly a power dinement happening, too. >> this is the person who is signing your check, paying for your lawyer, the reason that you are known by anybody is because of this and now you're supposed to dive off the trump tower into this ocean of anonymity maybe with no help, no support, maybe with no lawyer. you will have a bad corrupt lawyer that doesn't have your interest at heart or maybe you have no lawyer and you have to

break out your credit card to get your cousin larry to represent you. these are tough situations these people have been drug into and donald trump knows that. he knows that. he knows when he's leaning on people who are in the lowarcny of the hierarchy, that these are folks that will be more likely to help them than somebody who has other options. >> you were talk being these low level employees afraid to speak out against donald trump. there are other people low level in the polls who seem afraid to speak out about dloump. i'm trying to wrap my head around the fact that in iowa tonight all the candidates will be on the same stage. at different times but on the same stage for the first time. what's going through these other candidates' heads? this guy keeps getting new charges, there are indictments that keep coming down and they are going to walk on that stage and either pretend it's not happening or, you knew, or try to help him avoid it? >> it's a crazy thing where it's like it's an indictment a week.

this guy catches more cases, more federal cases than anybody in american life and yet people are afraid to say the obvious thing. this guy should not be the standard bearer for a political

standard bearer for a political party. this guy shouldn't be the leader of the free world. this guy should be in a jail cell someplace. if you say that what's going to happen to you? the base of your party, the republican party is going to eat you alive. you're stuck between telling the truth and possibly having a path forward. >> let's talk about that. does it surprise you at all or has it been curious at all to see just the grasp that trump has on the party and the fact that they are rocking with him indictment after indictment? >> i said it before, it reminds me of o.j. simpson back in the

'90s. the black community we weren't big fans of oj, we knew he had done something wrong but the people going after oj was lapd and we thought the lapd was even worse. i see the same dynamic happening within the republican party. they know donald trump -- >> except that once upon a time the republican party was very pro law enforcement. >> yes, exactly. >> there is a lot happening here. >> and pro national security and patriotism. the idea that somebody could steal a bunch of government documents and possibly risk our national security might have alarmed a republican or two, but apparently it's a different republican party. >> i go back to where we started the show with the words altering, mutilating, concealing. you know, those are tough words to see in a charge. >> i mean, look, i thought brother miller did a great job explaining. this gets worse and worse and worse, except for when it gets worse. it just gets worse. you steal all this stuff, he's not supposed to have it, they

ask you to give it back, you don't give it back and then you start trying to scrub away the evidence that you are hiding it. at some point you have to acknowledge that you know you're doing something wrong when you are literally trying to delete the server when you said hillary clinton shouldn't be president because she is deleting servers. >> joe biden says what about it? >> zero. zero, zilch, nada, nothing. do not say anything because the right wing is saying this is joe biden trying to prosecute donald trump. it's not. the minute that joe biden says a syllable then it becomes a snowball of, see, this is a personal vendetta, biden is trying to knock off his rival as opposed to somebody stealing america's secrets, waving them around at houseguests, lying about them and concealing. this is worse than anything nixon did and he should be in jail. >> van jones, great to see you. >> we were just talking about this event tonight. 13 republican candidates will be at the same campaign event, they will all be on the same stage.

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we were just talk being how tonight for the first time donald trump will be at a big republican campaign event with the other candidates, including ron desantis. this is in iowa, it's a big

republican lincoln dinner. of course, trump is dealing with these additional new charges in the mar-a-lago documents case. desantis is dealing with trying to reboot his campaign. cnn's jessica dean is in des moines this morning. all of a sudden, jessica, i mean this, event was big to begin with, now it's got this super charged feel to it. >> reporter: it certainly does, john. and so many of us will be looking at him to see what he does there and what he says. the first time that we will see the former president in public since all of this news has come out. let me just zoom out for a second and give everyone a snapshot of where the race stands in iowa. the iowa caucuses january 15th those are the first votes we are going to see in this race so it's a critical state. right now there is a new fox business poll that came out over the weekend and shows former president trump at 46%, ron desantis at 16, tim scott at 11 and everyone else. man, that 46% you can see that the former president just really

an aggressive lead here in iowa. so that leaves all of the other candidates really trying to break through and governor ron desantis of course is the closest in second place there. we have seen him in the last couple of weeks reset his young campaign, it's only been around -- he's only launched about two months ago, but we saw him cutting the staff citing budget concerns. we have now seen him on a tour, a bus tour of rural iowa where he's really trying to get back to his message of electability, that he is the one that can win in a general election in 2024 and he has not been directly taking on donald trump that much from the stump. he will do it when asked with it by reporters, but when he is on the stump he doesn't necessarily talk about the former president. when we were traveling with him yesterday he was asked by a reporter how do you convince people who have supported the former president to support you? here is what he said. >> in florida he won by 3, i won

by 20. we are winning independent voters by double digits and that's the formula that you need to be able to beat biden and the democrats. we are not getting a mulligan on 2024. you either go, you get the job done, or you don't and so i will get the job done. >> reporter: and that's about as explicit as he has been, john. the other candidates aside from asa hutchinson and chris christie just really are not aggressively going after the former president. so that really sets the stage for tonight when we have almost all of them here, as you mentioned, they're each going to be giving about ten-minute speeches, pitching themselves to iowa voters. what we're going to be watching is do any of them start to change their strategy here? does anybody start to directly go after former president donald trump who hasn't before or do they really stick to their stump speeches? i obtained a memo from the super pac that is supporting former vice president mike pence who has strugd ld to really gain traction in this crowded primary

field. they were talking about seeing what's happening with desantis as an opportunity for them, that they want to position themselves in a more aggressive stance. the question is kind of can anyone effectively do that, be it pence or tim scott, nikki haley, and can they break through? that's what they're all hoping for tonight, but when donald trump comes to town, it usually sucks a lot of the oxygen out of the room. john? >> jessica dean in at that da moin, keep us posted. big day. rahel? a new intel report is revealing more about china's relationship with russia. the report was compiled by the office of the director of national intelligence and the report found that china has become an increasingly important buttress for russia why its war effort and details how chinese state-owned defense companies have provided russia with various war technologies despite western sanctions. natasha bertrand is at the pentagon. what else did this report say? >> a really significant report from the director of national

intelligence which is unclassified but does have that rays from the intelligence community that china is becoming an increasingly important buttress for russia's war effort in ukraine. what the report says is as of march chinese state defense companies have provided russian defense companies with over $12 million worth of drones and drone equipment. these companies, these state-owned companies, have also provided russia with dual-use technology in terms of navigation equipment, jamming technology and importantly fighter jet parts. now, these are obviously all things that russia could use as part of its war effort in ukraine even if it is not necessarily lethal equipment, not necessarily weapons that the chinese are providing to the russians, but the report also details just the level of economic cooperation going on between china and russia, saying that that has actually intensified since the war began, despite efforts by the west to really dig into russia's war chest, try to cut them off from

the international community, and the international economy so that they cannot continue to fund their war efforts in ukraine. the report says that china has increasingly been sending semiconductors to the russians. obviously those are chips that can be used in russian defense technology that they continue to produce for the war in ukraine. now, the report says that it is difficult to determine just how much russia or china is interfering with western sanctions, but they do say in the report that they do believe that chinese companies are helping russia to evade these sanctions. now, the chinese did respond and they provided a statement to cnn in which they said china does not sell weapons to parties involved in the ukraine crisis and prudently handles the export of duel-use items in accordance with laws and regulations. the biden administration has repeatedly brought up with the chinese the fact that they are watching very closely to see what kinds of weapons, equipment, nonlethal and lethal the chinese may be willing to provide to the russians. the chinese have repeatedly

denied that they are doing so and say that they want peace, but obviously the u.s. not necessarily buying it here, saying that the chinese are actually increasingly supporting russia's war effort, rahel. >> as you allude to, it comes as a time when the u.s. is trying to repeat relations with china, this being a sticking point. natasha, thank you. we're getting new reporting on these new charges against donald trump. and bronny james, the son of lebron james, is out of the hospital after suffering that sudden cardiac arrest and for the first time we're hearing the 911 call. we handcraft every stearns & foster® using the finest materials, like indulgent memory foam, and ultra-conforming innersprings, for r a beautiful mattress, and indescribable comfort. fofor a limited time, save $400 on select stearns & foster mattresses. type 2 diabetetes? discover the ozempic® tri-zone. in my ozempic® tri-zone, i lowered my a1c, cv risk,

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all right, sir, i'm going to send help there. and where exactly are you? >> yes. >> all right, sir, we're going to send help. don't hang up, sir. don't hang up. your telephone. >> yes. >> let's get next to him, please. how old is he? get next to him with the phone. 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, there is no doctor. >> help is already on the way. okay. get next to him, please. >> even though you heard in that audio that they're saying there is no doctor or registered nurse there, there were definitely trained medical staff and cedar sinai hospital released a hospital yesterday actually praising the trained staff at usc who jumped into action there. let's read the statement from the doctor at cedar sinai saying, thanks to the swift and effective response by usc athletic medical staff bronny james was successfully treated for a sudden cardiac arrest.

he came to cedar sinai fully conscious, neurologically intact and stable. mr. james was cared for promptly by highly trained staff and has been discharged home where he is resting. that doctor continues to say that they're very encouraged by his response, resilience, family support, and we do want to point out that usc medical staff have experienced this before. just last july another player also had a cardiac arrest, same place, also during practice and according to the "los angeles times" the team really got to him in a matter of 45 seconds. he took more than six months to recover. so we are going to be tracking how bronny james does here, rahel. >> absolutely. but we have heard medical professionals say after bronny collapsed how important it is that they get treatment, that they get sort of, you know, reaction as soon as, you know, they collapse, unfortunately. natasha chen, thank you. john? all right. a new justice department probe into the memphis police

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this morning, the justice department has opened up a civil rights investigation into city of memphis and the police. seven months after tyre nichols was beaten to death at a traffic stop. the justice department is going to look at the memphis police look at traffic stops and force and arrests and if they have discriminated against black citizens. and there is already an investigation into five police officers into the death. the 25-year-old black man was stopped by police, and beaten and kicked and tased and then died five days later after the incident. we are joined by nick taylor with more. >> yes, the doj has been calling for the investigation by the federal government, and now they will grant the review after

information that was provided to them. they did not give a time line as to how long the investigation will take, but they hope to release their findings soon, and the doj has been doing work in memphis, and way back in march as this investigation is going to be running parallel to that work, and as you know, it is going to be looking at the use of force and stops by the memphis police department to see if they have participated or discriminated in the policing, to see if they have violated any constitutional rights or federal law abuse. it is the u.s. attorney in memphis says that the city plans to fully cooperate with the feds. >> there cannot be one rule of law for the powerful and another one for the powerless, and there cannot be one rule of law for the rich and one rule of law for the poor and one rule of law for people who look like me and

another one for the people of color. i welcome this opportunity for the facts to lead for what i know is an ongoing and important discussion about civil rights in our city. together, we can build a stronger memphis. >> strong words there from the u.s. attorney, and of course, this is coming for months after the brutal beating and death of tyre nichols at the hands of the police. five members of the memphis police have pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and other channels related to the incident. it was in april that the nichols family filed a lawsuit seeking $550 million related to the incident against the city. >> and now, with the civil rights violated and what happens if they deem that they were? >> this is among a handful of patterns of practice that the biden administration has launched in the last handful of years, and there is precedent that if they find discriminatory

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destroy, conceal evidence in the mar-a-lago case, and the new charges and the new reporting this morning about what it does to his legal calendar. >> and all of this as trump is set to go to iowa and join a dozen other candidates at a campaign event. he is still the gop frontrunner, but are these legal troubles going to leave an opening for the other candidates. and now, the climate is pushing the power grids to the limit. with rahel solomon, i'm john berman. this is cnn "news central." well, hours from now, donald trump is going to take the same campaign stage as his republican rivals as the legal peril takes a serious turn as there are new charges in the classified documents case.

special counsel jack smith says that two employees walt nauta and carlos de oliveira tried to conceal evidence at his request.