voices, but for now, i handed over to my friend and colleague ayman moye at the. a man, it's hot baby. >> it is hot. i made the mistake of walking to work today. let me say, when i got here, i was not wearing the shirt that i am wearing now. i can tell you that. i've got to ask you, i've got two parts for you. one, i was fascinated by the conversation that you're having there at the beginning about the republican party. look, you and i follow politics overseas and the parliamentary system, you can get opposition figures and people that rally around a figure to oust donald trump. and i don't understand what the republican party, look, i'm not a math guy, i'm a simpleton at politics, but of 35% of the base likes donald trump, that means 65% would prefer somebody else. why can't they agree, why can't they get together and say hey, let's all fields a candidate that we think can go up against donald trump and get rid of this nightmare? >> dude, i've been preaching it for the last six or eight months. i don't know why the party doesn't corral one of these

individuals on the stage to just say, this is the horse that's going to write us to the brave new world. and that base, small though it is, it's outsized in the money it produces, and the power it wields. and that, even in a parliamentary system, can overwhelm the system sometimes. >> just like what happened to will hurd. as you said, booed there just for speaking truth to power. on a personal note, i just want to say that it's the first time i've seen you in person. thank you so much for filling in for me a couple of weeks ago, i really appreciate it. i owe you one, my friend. >> no pleasure, no pleasure. that just took a cold -- >> you've got it. next time i see you. >> a pint. >> consider it done. good to see my front, thank you as always. good evening and welcome to ayman. tonight, the case against donald trump. for the next two hours we're going to break down the important legal developments this week, including that superseding indictment against the ex president and it's nixonian echoes. we're going to explore the

election interference case and how close jacks mitt's to another trump indictment. and then we're gonna head down to georgia as fulton county d.a. fani willis begins a critical period in her investigation into trump's potential criminality. i'm ayman mohyeldin, let's get started. we want to start tonight's show by looking back for a moment. back to july 27th 1974, which was an inflection point in our country's history. it was on that day the house judiciary committee recommended that america's 37th president, richard nixon, be impeached and removed from office. six republicans joined 21 democrats in sending that first article of impeachment against the president, which accused him of obstructing justice to the full house. and now, 49 years later, to the

day, another former president has found himself accused of the very same charge again. on thursday, donald trump was hit with new counts in special counsel jack smith's classified documents case. in a bombshell superseding indictment, the ex president was charged with an additional count of willful retention of national defense information, and two new counts of obstruction. so with these new charges, trump now faces a staggering total of 40 criminal counts in that case, the most serious of which could land him in prison for up to 20 years. now, in that superseding indictment, prosecutors have accused trump, along with his coconspirator walt nauta, and a new third defendant carlos de oliveira, a mar-a-lago maintenance worker attempting to delete surveillance video from the resort. coincidently, just after trump's lawyers received the grand jury subpoena requests for that footage. according to the indictment, on

june 27th 2022, after some phone tag between trump, nauta, and de oliveira walked to the i.t. office at mar-a-lago and requested that he and an unnamed trump employee, the works -- well, the two men then went inside a closet and that's when dela told employees that their conversation should quote, remain between the two of them. de oliveira then asked the employee how many days the resorts servers retained footage, to which the employee responded that he believed it was approximately 45 days, give or take. and then in a move on a sly streets out of a monster movie, de oliveira told the employee that quote, the boss wanted the server deleted. when the employee raised concerns that he would not know how to do that and that he did not believe that he would have the rights to do so, de

oliveira repeated that quote, the boss wanted the server deleted. and asked, what are we going to do? >> now, it's still not entirely clear what happened after that conversation, and honestly, even if the footage was ultimately deleted. but with this indictment, the federal government has now accused donald trump, a former president, of seeking to destroy it possibly incriminating evidence against him. which brings us back to that nixon comparison, because nixon was only just accused of obstructing justice, in fact, he was also accused of destroying evidence as part of that cover-up during the watergate scandal. and during that investigation, it was discovered that nixon had a habit of reporting conversations in the white house, and those recordings were later subpoenaed by a special prosecutor, after which investigators noticed an 18 and a half minute gap in one of those tapes. now, while nixon's personal secretary claimed to have

accidentally a raced the missing minutes, which are believed to contain a conversation between nixon and his chief of staff just three days after the watergate break in. many suspected it was the president himself who ordered its destruction. but that's where trump's parallel to the other disgraced ex president ends, because on august 8th 1974, just 12 days after the house recommended those first articles of impeachment, richard nixon faced with the overwhelming evidence against him and eroding support within his own party, he resigned. colonel trump isn't ready to give up, he's not going anywhere. here he is just yesterday, doubling down on his commitment to retake the white house, no matter what may stand in his way. >> if, going forward, you get these indictments, you've got convicted and sentenced. does that stop your campaign

for president? if you're sentenced? >> not at all. there's nothing in the constitution to say that it's good, and the radical left used to say that wouldn't stop me. >> not at all. more details continue to emerge about the sheer scope of donald trump's alleged criminality and the possible cover-up that followed, it is becoming clear that he is in a lead of his own. donald trump isn't just another richard nixon, he's nixon on steroids. let's bring in my panel, renato mariotti, a former federal prosecutor and legal affairs columnist at politico, but charles blow and michelle goldberg we, both are msnbc political analysts. it's great to have you with us. renato, let me start with just the basics of what we saw this week. how common or superseding indictments, and what are these new charges if anything, as well as the addition of this

third defendant? tell us about the scope of jackson's case here, and if it is, and in what direction, it is expanding. >> well, they're not uncommon, but i think most cases don't -- i think jack smith is continuing his investigation, and he's made it determination that he wants to have a strong as was bookcase. he means that he is not going to race to the finish line, even if it might cause a little bit of a delay. he wants to have the strongest -- a number of things. first of all, a town involving the actual document that trump was waving around, trump claimed it was a newspaper, it was his bravado, it wasn't really classified document. now they have that document, they're charging that document, and then he's included this obstruction of conspiracy, involving the destruction of evidence. very powerful evidence that

frankly is a very powerful account that realistically the jury is going to have a lot of trouble excusing, a lot of trouble ignoring. you could say whatever you want about the presidential records act or about declassification, the bottom line is destroying evidence, that's the sort of thing that the average person could get their head around. so that's really important, and then there's also the dynamic between these two defendants now, these two minor defendants. are they going to try to flip against -- who's going to flip first? is one going to flip against trump? are they both going to flip? there's a dynamic now where walt nauta, he can't just be assured of the fact that he is going to be the lone man in the trial. now you have to potential employees, and neither of them know what the other might do. >> charles, let's talk about that point that renato brought up about how this undercuts trump's own defense, if you will, more or less. it's not quite the behavior

you'd expect from someone who is acting lawfully. not just in a sense of trying to destroy evidence, but he's also been making the case that he had a right to these documents, and yet here he is trying to get rid of the evidence that he has those documents, allegedly. >> the thing that i'm most interested in here is what evidence the special counsel has beyond a competing eyewitness. if you have nothing on paper, on tape, if they're meeting by the bushes and in closets and the only evidence you're going to have is a testimony of one person, you're going to have three defendants, all of whom are saying together that we didn't do this, what this person saying. so if one person has testimony gets others, that's not as strong as i would like to see. but that may be what they have. the second thing is my

understanding, and i could be wrong, my understanding is the trump universe is also paying for this third defendants defense. and that makes it less likely that there will be some flipping among the other defendants. so, the problem here is the structures around the legal system and our political system just cannot quite catch up to the novelty of donald trump. they hit the nixon example falls flat a little bit, because nixon had a sense of history and a sense of the country where he wanted to kind of shield it from more damage. trump doesn't have that. >> so let me just go back to your point, which is, and let me play devils advocate here for a second, given the gravity of the moment that jack smith must be aware of, would he bring an indictment against a

former president if he did not have substantial evidence of beyond just simply hearsay of a witness? don't you think he would probably have, perhaps, a text message saying hey, the boss wants this deleted on somebody's phone that he was able to recover? as opposed to just simply saying hey, i have a witness who saying the boss told him to delete it. i get your point, but i suspect that jack smith, knowing what has happened in the past with donald trump, realizing the severity of the moment and these superseding indictments, is probably not coming to bring these charges forward without substantial evidence. >> don't assume, but we only know what's in the indictment. so in the indictment he does not disclose that. he simply says conversations that he -- in the indictment are person-to-person conversations. he never mentions anything in text message. we would hope that he has that, but i'm just saying what we know, we don't know that. >> michelle, the charges against de oliveira include him lying to investigators. does that sent a warning signal

to potentially other witnesses? could the chance of facing an indictment themselves boost the possibility of a cooperation, going back to renato earlier point which is that could there be other people out there that are flipping against these two men, or perhaps getting these two men to flip against the former president? >> as a non lawyer, it seems pretty obvious to me that some other people already have flipped. you have all of these accounts of conversations with various other people at mar-a-lago, conversations, the boss wants you to do this. presumably someone is giving that huge acts, bit unless he has recorded or as charles said in text messages. there clearly are gritty are people cooperating, and although de oliveira is in a difficult position because donald trump is paying his legal bills, still at a certain point you might want to ask if it's really worth going to prison for donald trump. and i think he could look at the history of other people involved with donald trump,

gotten involved with donald trump, and see that very often, even if donald trump -- the people around him are not. and it's just another lesson here, don't work for donald trump. from that kind of most low level person to the vice president, there is nobody who comes out unscathed from their association with this person. >> andrew goldstein, we're not, all you might remember he is the lead investigator for the bob mueller obstruction investigation. he told the new york times quote, demanding that evidence be destroyed is the most basic form of obstruction and it is easy for a jury to understand. he also said that what's described in this indictment is actually more quote, straightforwardly criminal, then the obstructive acts detailed in the mueller report. based on what you've seen, do you agree? how does evidence like this play in front of a jury? what would be your threshold to convince a jury that an

obstruction request, or destruction of evidence request, did in fact take place? is it simple to say hearsay is going to be enough to convince jurors? >> well, first of all, great question. i agree with that assessment. and the reason why i agree with that is the obstructive act that were discussed in the mueller report were for example, trying to fire mueller himself. trying to use pardons to influence testimony. trying to fire the fbi director. all of those sorts of activities are more complicated, and one might view that as more political. destroying evidence, that is like goldstein said, that's very straightforwardly criminal. it's a sort of thing that jurors are used to understanding, they're used to seeing that, they've probably seen that on tv and movies. and i think that when we look at all these counts, i appreciate charles. i think he's right that jurors will look at each count

separately and they're going to look at the evidence and see if there's more than hearsay. but you cannot actually, if you're really trying a case, look at these counts separately. we have to remember that this evidence is going to come into a trial where the jurors are going to see overwhelming evidence that trump really, really wanted these documents. he wanted them very badly, and his lawyers were telling him that he had to return them to the government, and essentially, all of this obstructive activity was around those lawyers. and so i think all of that in combination along with that reporting, i think it makes a very strong case. i actually think that jack smith, the mar-a-lago case really stands alone as the most straightforward easily prove-able case of all the cases that are arraigned against donald trump, in my opinion. >> charles, we may be discussing this among ourselves, the simulators and the comparisons about trump and nixon and whether they're like or not. but trump seems to take pride

in these comparisons to nixon. today he shared this letter from his pen pal back from the 80s, in which nixon predicted trump would one day win the presidency. why does trump continue to idolize a man who resigned in disgrace and is arguably one of the worst, if not the worst president in modern american politics? >> because donald trump idolizes outlaws. and we should never forget that. that's not in america, that's around the globe. the people, the letters that he saves, the ones that he brags about, they're all outlaws and dictators. and so the idea of him living outside the bounds of what is a normal is where he has always lived and where he lives and now. and that is the comparison. i want to make one last point though. i would be very interested to know if jack smith, if they were not able to delete footage, if jack smith has any footage of people going near --

it's totally going to bolster the case, even walking together on the days that are described. that kind of thing i think is what -- that kind of evidence -- that pollsters that argument. >> let me just ask were not out really quickly. renato, when do we find out the evidence that jack smith has? is it during the trial or is it beforehand in any of the proceedings whether we will know if he has recordings or text messages or this footage? >> there will be motion practice. so far there will be -- the defense is probably going to ask for all kinds of classified information to try to delay things. but there's also going to be motions going back and forth, for example, whether or not there's sufficient evidence of a conspiracy. there will be, i'm sure motions to exclude evidence by the defense. so i think in those motions overtime or going to learn more and more of motions and responses. what the evidence jack smith

has, and then on the eve of trial, with an exhibit list, a witness list, i think will then better have a sense of things. but i think and that understanding is going to evolve in the months ahead. >> michelle, sorry for jumping out of turn but i do want to come back to you. the politics of this for a moment, you have several republicans -- they actually supported the impeachment efforts against nixon and he resigned. in part due to the eroding support that he had within his own party. and even if they didn't do it on capitol hill, we know that people went to the white house and said look, the game is up. you have to go, it's done. why is the modern-day republican party so reluctant to turn on trump, and when they do, they become cowards and go right back into his lap? >> in certain ways donald trump is the republican party's revenge -- i think -- i could be wrong who said that if fox news had existed back then, nixon -- and so i think that you have -- back when nixon resigned, you

had one information system, you had one not completely widely shared notion of reality. and so there was -- it was possible to run afoul with the mainstream political consensus. and there just isn't any more. i think so often with donald trump were in this kind of -- world. and his followers and supporters are there with him. so that there is no shame for, example. he ran in 2016 ranting about hillary clinton wiping servers. and now has been indicted for the same thing. it's so interesting. on friday we were all expecting a january 6th indictment, and then this was kind of an anti climax. but only donald trump could be an anti climax and it's just another charge. nevertheless, i just think that he and the republican party in general have created such a --

sealed alternative reality that he's able to project all of his own crimes and his schemes onto his enemies. >> i actually agree with you, michelle, and i would say even more than just the republican party. he's normalized criminality to a point that people, like you said, when they see that it's another indictment about holding national security documents and it's not january six, everyone's like and not as climatic as anyone thought it would be. but we'll see. charles, michelle goldberg, thank you so much to the both of. you were not, oh please stick around. we're going to talk to a little bit later in the hour. after the break, we're going to continue this conversation and discuss the looming indictment in the election interference case with democratic congresswoman zoe lofgren, a former member of the january 6th select committee. stay with us. ee

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let me just get your reaction to these new charges in the superseding indictment. obviously you've been behind the scenes investigating trump's actions, leading up to january 6th. was there anything that surprised you as you saw the news come out this week? >> well, i guess a lot of us were expecting a january 6th indictment based on the target letter timing. but honestly, i was shocked by the new charges, the superseding indictment now on the documents case. i was just a staffer when the nixon impeachment was going on, but it's the -- that gets you. and these allegations and the indictment are very serious. if proven, i think the ex president is in serious legal jeopardy. >> so let me ask you about that, because as you just mentioned and as we talked about, there's a lot of similarities between nixon and trump.

you actually worked, as you just mentioned, on the nixon impeachment as a law student in 1964. on then congressman don edwards staff, and then you also worked on trump's impeachments. how did these two moments in history compared? what did you learn from working on nixon's impeachment that you are able to bring to trump's? >> well, it's interesting because what i learned was really more about the republican party then the president who got themselves in trouble. when the truth came out about nixon, it was irrefutable. republican members of the house and senate were shocked, they were ashamed, and they went to the president and said your support is gone. you've got to leave. what's happening now, the current republican party leadership at least and even those members who don't agree don't speak up. there is no shame. the truth is just --

dispensed with, lies are just a strategy. it's a very different approach to the world and a very different sense of honor then was the case when nixon was in trouble and his impeachment out of the judiciary committee. >> to your point earlier, i think a lot of people were expecting this week's announcement to include an indictment on january the 6th, and it's very possible it might have been given the target letter, a possible indictment in the presidents attempt to overturn the 2020 election. we're waiting to see what happens in georgia. in a piece he wrote for msnbc .com that you call trump's election schemes quote, the greatest threat to the constitutional order in modern history. expand on that, and what happens if there is no accountability for trying to overturn the election? >> well, essentially, trump did tried to overturn the

constitution. richard nixon corruptly use instruments of the government, but he wasn't on a mission to overturn the constitution itself. that's what trump tried to do, and it's worth noting, he has said that he intends if he is reelected to terminate aspects of the constitution. which is a stunning statement, and i've learned as we went into this investigation, to pay attention to what trump says. because it's what he intends to do. he intends to -- he said, terminate parts of the constitution. and he's been very overt about taking to the presidency authorities that don't belong to that branch of government. really, it's a very ominous set of predictions that he's making, should he be elected. i think we ought to pay-elect

attention to it, i think he means what he says. >> let's listen to what we played earlier on the show. it was donald trump in an interview saying that he is not going to stop no matter what happens on the legal front. and i'm curious to get your thoughts on where this may be going in terms of what accountability and what justice looks like. in this piece that you wrote for msnbc.com, you write about how the january six committee maybe one of the most significant in american history. noting that you and your fellow congress members may have very well pressured the justice department to take action. and in your view, what would it look like for trump to finally face justice? >> well, i do think it's important that it's not just the foot soldiers that are brought to justice. i mean, the department of justice has indicted and convicted a whole number, hundreds of individuals who rioted and who attacked the police and the like. but until this target letter,

there wasn't a strong indication that the inciter in chief, the plotters, we're actually going to be held to account. not just those who they incited. i think that's important. there needs to be accountability at all levels, not just the people who did the violence at his behest. i do you think his comment that he would run for president from prison is an astonishing one. and really, it shows the difference between the parties, i mean, the republican party's conservative, or it used to be. but there was a conservative party that had a sense of honor, just like the democrats had a sense of honor. that appears to be gone now. and his threats are, i think, pretty shocking. and the fact that he's continuing to lie to his supporters and that many of them don't have a source of

actual news, and they buy, it is on him as well. a lot of innocent people were harmed in january 6th. people who believed him, and that's happening again. >> yes. michelle goldberg's earlier point, he has managed to seal off the republican party from reality. and that's where we find ourselves today, a party that just doesn't believe in reality. congresswoman zoe lofgren, it's always a pleasure. thank you for your time and your insights. >> as thank you. >> after the break, how these new details fit into the bigger picture. a timeline of the classified documents case, and how the allegations in the superseding indictment give us a clearer picture of the ex presidents potential criminality. l crim on, and road-test evaluations... and the results are in. subaru is the 2023 best mainstream automotive brand, according to consumer reports. and subaru has seven consumer reports recommended models.

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documents case. so, to understand the full extent of the ex presidents alleged criminality, let's go back to the beginning and look at that closely. at 12 pm on january 2021, donald trump ceases to become president. as he departs the white house, scores of boxes, many of which contains classified materials, are transported to mar-a-lago. on may 6th of that year, representatives from the national archives notify trump lawyers of missing presidential records and continued to ask for the documents for months on end. in july of 2021, trump meets with a writer, a publisher, two members of his staff, none of whom possess security clearances. at his bedminster golf club, he proceeds to share materials he describes as quote, highly confidential in audio recordings. and he goes on to say, quote, as president, i could have declassified it, now i can't. in a superseding indictment, trump is charged with a new count of willfully retaining

national defense import mission over the document described in that recording. in december 2021, a trump representatives informs the archives they located more than a dozen documents at mar-a-lago facility and the agency arranges for those documents to be returned to washington. the national archives alerts the doj and the house oversight committee in february 2022 that the documents marked as classified were discovered in the returned boxes. in april of 2022, the national archives informs a trump representative of its intent to share records with the fbi. on may 11th, trump could -- seeking any classified material in his possession. on june 3rd 2022, the doj's counterintelligence chief and three fbi agents visit mar-a-lago to retrieve a folder containing 38 more classified documents, they also tore one

of the clubs storage rooms, but aren't allowed to search boxes inside. and here's where we learn a ton of new information from the superseding indictment. on june 22nd 2022, doj since trump a second grand jury subpoena, this time for a mar-a-lago surveillance footage. the next day, trump calls mar-a-lago, calls the maintenance manager there, at 8:46 pm, and they speak -- on june 25th the -- trump aides, the name that you now know, walt nauta go, travels from new jersey to mar-a-lago, where he and deliberately -- where security footage is displayed, and taken note of the cameras go where trump got has a storage room. two days after that, de oliveira, speaks with mar-a-lago mar-a-lago d and tells him, quote, the boss

wants the surveillance server deleted. and later that afternoon, trump calls de oliveira, the to speak for approximately three and a half minutes, and it's these actions that result in most of the rest of the charges that are laid out in the superseding indictment. that trump allegedly worked with his employees to try to delete security footage from being reviewed by investigators. and in early august of 2022, the doj seeks a warrant to search mar-a-lago, and once again granted fbi agents conduct a search of mar-a-lago, removing 27 boxes and several other document collections containing 11 sets of classified material. on november 18th 2022, attorney general merrick garland announces jack smith will serve as a special counsel to lead the classified documents probe. fast forward to june 8th of this year, smith's federal grand jury indict trump, charging him with 37 counts on

seven different charges, including willful retention of national defense information, withholding records, false statements, and conspiracy to obstruct. june 13th, trump is arraigned in miami, pleads not guilty, walt nauta faces six charges, five of which were also launched against trump. he pleads not guilty in a later hearing. and then just a week ago, judge aileen cannon sets a trial date, may 20th 2024, which as we just discussed, it might change with his superseding indictment. we don't know. and with de oliveira such to be arraigned tomorrow, and trials for trump and nauta now in the future, one thing is certain. this timeline is far from over. after the break, we turn to georgia and a new indication that fulton county district attorney is set to indict trump. stay with us. with hundreds of scrubbing strips- that absorb and lock dirt away, for a mop and bucket clean in half the time.

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fulton county courthouse. in the first visible sign of extra security before the expected indictment of donald trump next month. in a statement, the fulton county sheriff's office said that it is coordinating with local state and federal law enforcement to ramp up security ahead of a quote, high profile legal proceeding. currently, district attorney fani willis, who's investigating the efforts of trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election results, announced earlier this year that her staff would begin a remote work period during the first three weeks of august. that period, well, it starts monday. it has been speculated that this remote work session is the likeliest time during which willis will announce key -- the public. mariotti is back with me, also joining the conversation, greg bluestein. karen, thanks for being with us. greg, you are in atlanta, you've been following this case.

we have been seeing a visible ramping up of security now, and at the same time, a judge has scheduled a hearing for august 10th on a trump motion to disqualify from fani willis prosecuting in this case. right as charges are expected to be delivered. is the fulton county courthouse are going to be in complete chaos the next month? >> you know, we don't know if it will be complete chaos, but we know that law enforcement officials are preparing for such. you've seen those barricades go up, you just mentioned the a.d.a.'s and other courtroom staffers, courthouse staffers, are asked to be working from home starting on monday. i'm getting messages from some of them, there are -- >> can i just ask you really quickly about that work from home thing, because maybe that will give us some clues. is that something that happens yearly around this time of year? >> no. kim yeah, this is not common at all. this is being seen as a ramp up. we're still expecting this

indictment within weeks, not days. we're not expecting it very imminently, but we're expecting it over the next couple of weeks. >> that's a very good point, and i think that's why a lot of people who just may not be familiar with things are done down there may think that it's a post covid new normalcy. it's good to know that it's not. we're not, oh speaking of this work from home period for most staffers, which begins on monday, as a former federal prosecutor, what are your thoughts on the significance of this decision by the d.a.? keep her staff away from the courthouse, i presume for safety reasons, if trump is going to be charged in this case, what kind of response do you think we can expect from his allies, as well as residents in the area? >> well, obviously donald trump is a person who encourages supporters to march on the capital. culminating in a violent attack that left people injured, some people dead. we also of course have even recent threats, one of the

january 6th attorneys was making threats against the justice department. i think you can never be too careful. when i was a federal prosecutor, i faced some serious threats and had to be in productive custody for a period of time. the former president and his supporters, not by them, but nonetheless, i think she's being burdened by taking this up. it really suggests, all the signs point towards an indictment in the upcoming weeks. and frankly, i don't think anyone's going to be surprised by that. -- exactly had a poker face. so i think we are expecting this to be one of the upcoming indictments, i guess the question is, is it indictment number three or indictment number four? >> that's a good point. let me ask you about rudy giuliani, if we can talk about him for a moment. this earlier this week, he made quite a startling admission that he made false remarks

about two georgia election workers mishandling ballots in 2020. michael cohen says his former boss is likely squirming over the news. here he is speaking to my colleague katie phang on the beat earlier this week. watch. >> right now, i can assure you that he's panicking, he's panicking inside. they'll never allow the public to see because he likes to give the appearance of strength. and you know, be the victim, which is what he's going to continue to play. >> renata, what are the implications of this giuliani concession or confession if you will, for donald trump? >> well, obviously, what it means is that giuliani's going to have a lot of -- taking that lie and the witness in. just so everyone remembers, these are the lies, it's almost a conspiracy theory that was certainly inflamed by giuliani against these election workers, basically suggesting that they

were engaging in some sort of election fraud, destruction of ballots or moving ballots, changing ballots. obviously that was investigated, it turned out to be false. there was some attention paid to the january six committee, as i believe what was in question was for the president hearings. what i would just say is that ultimately on the edge of the day, a lot of the defense for trump in the georgia case is going to come down to his supposedly genuine belief regarding the fact that he supposedly lost the election based on what giuliani told him, obviously this is significantly undercutting that. >> greg, in his court filing earlier this week, giuliani said that he made statements that quote, carry meaning that is definite tory force a. but he also argued that his comments are protected by the first amendment. do you think his argument holds

weight? >> you know, legal analysts, will have to answer that one. but i know that told that this is exacted, they testified to that in for the january six committee, and they've talked about it in interviews. it almost ruined their lives. they received death threats, they went into hiding, they couldn't do mundane things like going to the grocery store without fearing for their very lives. this put a face on the donald trump conspiracy theories, and in a really visceral way. and by the way, when giuliani was saying that they were passing a usb card full of fraudulent votes, you know what they were passing? it was a ginger mint. so it really brought it home to a lot of folks. >> many of these things we don't even think about having real life consequences when people are just spreading these theories. but as you mentioned, they have real life consequences. greg bluestein, the renato mariotti, thank you to both of you. up next, the unbelievable hypocrisy of donald trump.

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