let's unpack all of this and more with former trump white house lawyer james schultz, and also cnn opinion contributor and former house gop investigative committee council, sophia nelson. glad to have you both here today and let me begin with you, james. you are in the trump orbit. have you ever heard trump or have you heard from others that he acknowledged that he actually did lose the election? >> no. that's not something i would have been privy to or heard from. but it's not surprising that, at this point, you are seeing folks like the kushner family and others that are in that orbit coming into the grand jury at this juncture. you are seeing other high-profile folks coming into the grand jury. i think that is largely crossing t's and dotting i's from information they have gathered from other folks. and i think that's also a signal that this thing is coming to a conclusion. >> do you think so? the idea of kushner and beyond -- and i do think it's interesting, the idea that you wouldn't have been privy to our a. conversation, about something as really foundational as whether he won an el

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here to talk about this, former white house lawyer, james schultz and karen. cnn's exclulsive reporting. that trump was praising the election security in that oval office meeting. suggesting the fbi and the department of homeland security hold a press conference and talk about it. what can prosecutors glean from this? he said it was a fraudulent election. >> they are looking for every shred of evidence that can establish that donald trump believed it was a fair election. and that the claims of the election stolen were bogus. they're going to have meetings before and after the election. documents he may have seen, to lawsuits that may have gone on. they are look at every shred of evidence, that he thought in his mind, that the election were stolen and that he was making up the fact that the election was stolen. >> okay. >> they're looking at all of this evidence. trump did criticize election security in the months that followed. i want people to listen to some of what he said. >> i don't want to be a crooked election. this election will be the most rigged in hi

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let's ask cnn senior justice correspondent, evan perez, we also have with us james schultz, a former trump white house lawyer. andrew mccabe. former fbi deputy director, john, miller cnn chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst. so great to have. you're evan, what happens now? >> well, i think we can expect an indictment. that's what this letter signifies, this was a warning to the former president. that he has until thursday, he can come to the grand jury on thursday, here in washington, d.c., if he wants to avail himself of that opportunity, he can do that. present evidence, he can bring evidence with him, if he doesn't, the clock starts ticking. so, we can expect that perhaps as soon as thursday, the grand jury could vote on an indictment of the former president. we do know, allison, there's at least one other witnesses, perhaps a couple witnesses, might also be going to the grand jury, probably for very, very short stance. in one case, we know somebody who's been in there a couple times. going in for a third time. at this point, everything seems perfunctory. everything seem

we also have with us james schultz, a former trump white house lawyer, andrew mccabe, former deputy fbi director. gentlemen, so great to have you here. evan, what happens now? >> well, i think we can expect an indictment. that's what this letter signified. this was a warning to the former president that he has until thursday. he can come to the grand jury on thursday here in washington, d.c. if he wants to avail himself of that opportunity, he can do that. present evidence, bring evidence with him. and if he doesn't, then the clock starts ticking. so we can expect that perhaps as soon as thursday, the grand jury could vote on an indictment of the former president. we do know, alisyn, that at least one other witness, perhaps a couple of witnesses might also good b going to the grand jury, probably for very, very short stints. in one case, we know of somebody who has been in there a couple of times. he is going in for a third time. so at this point, everything seems perfunctory. everything seems like this investigation is pretty much finished, and the special counsel jack smith is ready t

elliott williams, we also have john miller, our chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst and james schultz, who is a trump white house lawyer. gentlemen, it's great to have you tonight. elliott, as though the original allegations of mishandling top secret, classified documents weren't enough, these are worse. these alleged attempting to alter, destroy, mutilate, and conceal evidence. am i right that legally these are? worse >> it's bad, and if you look at the timeline that is laid out in the indictment, it's after they received a grudge draft grandeur isa peÑa. there are notit the feds are looking for information that is at mar-a-lago. it is then at that point that they say, you know what, there is probably incriminating information on our security footage. let's work together and get it deleted. in fact, there is at least one phone call from the president to the head of maintenance, i believe, it was his role at mar-a-lago. they speak on the telephone and then there after a number of employees get together to delete security footage. it is the kind of, literally abbott and costello level