‘Cover-up’: New details in Trump indictment have shades of Watergate

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🗓️ 29 July 2023

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Guests: John Brennan, Catherine Christian, Doug Brinkley, Jennifer Horn, Tara Setmayer We've all been watching the D.C. courthouse for news of another Trump indictment, but what if the next big thing is coming out of Georgia? Plus, the behavior alleged in the special prosecutor's latest indictment of Donald Trump is wild enough to make Richard Nixon blush. Where those historical parallels begin and end. And can you successfully run for president and get away with Slurpee-shaming children in the first voting state? A new look at what on earth is happening with Ron DeSantis.

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0:00.0	Good evening from New York. I'm Jen Psaki and for Chris Hayes. It's been a huge week
0:09.6	of legal news for Donald J. Trump. And we learned a lot on the several criminal cases circling
0:14.9	the ex-president, including a bit of an unexpected turn of events yesterday. Last night, special
0:20.6	counsel Jack Smith filed a superseding indictment against the ex-president in the classified
0:25.2	documents case, and named a new, co-defendant and co-conspirator, a Mar-o-Lago property manager
0:31.7	named Carlos de Oliveira. The new indictment also hurled three additional felony counts against
0:37.6	the ex-president. He now faces a grand total for the mathematicians out there of 40 counts
0:43.6	in the classified documents case, 40. Two of those additional charges are for obstruction,
0:49.0	relating to a cover-up that can only be described as a scene kind of out of a mob movie, if
0:53.8	you like to watch those. Federal prosecutors of peanut Mar-o-Lago security camera footage on June 24,
0:59.5	2022, when they were convinced that Trump was still withholding classified documents. After Trump's
1:06.6	attorneys attested in a sworn statement that all documents were returned, and after DOJ made
1:12.1	several attempts to get the documents back. Now, we learned last night that once Trump learned
1:17.3	of the subpoena, he spoke with both his co-conspirators. Here's where it got kind of interesting,
1:22.6	and that the two employees then, after they spoke with Trump, went to the security booth where
1:27.6	the surveillance footage was stored and looked into how to delete that footage. Here's how prosecutors
1:34.2	say it all went down. Quote de Oliveira told the IT worker the boss wanted the server deleted.
1:41.2	When the IT worker said he didn't think he could do that, understandably, the new co-conspirator,
1:46.3	again, quote, said, insisted to him that the boss, what we know who the boss is there, obviously,
1:52.5	wanted the server deleted and asked, what are we going to do? Again, a bit of a mob movie scene
1:57.5	there. This comes as we are still waiting on a potential second federal indictment from Jack
2:02.3	Smith in the criminal investigation into the ex-president's effort attempts to overturn the 2020
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