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All Eyes on Jack Smith

Main Justice

MS NOW, Andrew Weissmann, Mary McCord

Versant, Indictment, Trump Indictment, Manhattan D.a., District Attorney, President, Ms Now, Politics, Trump Indicted, Legal, Trump Charged, News, Charges, Msnbc, Mary Mccord, Trump Legal, Andrew Weissmann

4.76.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Now that Donald Trump has been indicted by the Manhattan D.A., could the next big move come from the Special Counsel? Veteran prosecutors Andrew Weissmann and Mary McCord dig into how Jack Smith could be building his cases against the former president.

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0:00.0

Hello, and welcome to a new episode of Prosecuting Donald Trump.

0:11.5

The last two weeks have been dominated by a talk of them and had in criminal case.

0:16.4

But there are other cases that Trump should be worried about, and some say even more

0:20.3

worried about, including the main topic for today's episode, The Investigation by Special

0:26.3

Council, Jack Smith, concerning the January 6th events.

0:31.2

There's a lot to get into, so let's turn to it, Mary.

0:34.4

I'm Andrew Weissman, of course, and I'm here with Mary McCord.

0:38.9

I'm so glad to be here this morning.

0:41.2

Like you said, Andrew, you know, our attention was so focused last week on the indictment,

0:46.1

but there was a lot going on, including judicial opinions that are not favorable to the

0:52.6

former president.

0:53.6

And so we're going to get a little nerdy today, not that we never otherwise get a little

0:57.6

nerdy.

0:58.6

Because we never were before, Mary.

0:59.6

We're going to get a little nerdy, so let's go.

1:04.1

Why don't we start with Mike Pence, because he just could be so important to what we call

1:11.7

the January 6th case that is being looked at by Jack.

1:17.0

So Mary, what do you make of Mike Pence's decision to just sort of stop, you know, while

1:24.0

he's ahead, or while he's behind, because there's this opinion that says, okay, there's

1:30.4

a tiny little kernel of truth about your speech and debate clause issue, but you basically

1:36.4

have a whole host of things that you still have to testify about, and he didn't appeal

1:40.8

that.

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