presented by the American Petroleum Institute. Good morning, everyone. I'm Playbook co-author,

Ryan Liza. It's Wednesday, August 2nd. And there's only one thing driving the day today, perhaps the year,

and that is the indictment of Donald Trump over his efforts to subvert the 2020 election.

Joining me to discuss this new indictment of Donald Trump is a legal

affairs reporter, Kyle Cheney, who as always is up to the minute on the details of this case.

Kyle, good morning. You have actually been hanging out at the courthouse not just yesterday,

but for days now waiting for this indictment, haven't you? That's right. We got a sense.

You know, some of it's a little bit abstract,

but you could tell this investigation was winding down for a while.

And so really for the last two weeks, we've been camped out there,

watching the grand jury, waiting to see when they were going to make their march to the magistrate judge

to hand up an indictment. And, you know,

the crescendo built to Tuesday when we all pretty much expected it was coming and were proven

right at long last at the end of the day.

Kyle, let's take a step back to start with and give the broad picture of what this indictment says, and then we'll dig

into some of the most significant details and talk a little bit about what comes next.

So the indictment is 45 pages, and you can get a lot in 45 pages. I mean, this is a sweeping

narrative that with Trump at the center, and I actually think it's somewhat significant that the six co-conspirators that they mention in this indictment, they don't name them. So Trump is the only name in this indictment, is they are making it clear that this entire scheme to subvert the election is about Donald Trump. Kind of like the January 6th

committee said, this is about one man. I was just going to say, that's right, very, very Trump

focused. And I mean, that's one of my takeaways is the indictment tracks extremely closely

with the January 6th committee's report. So much of what's in this indictment, we knew already

from the January 6th committee. Now, Jack Smith and his

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