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🗓️ 7 October 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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0:00.0 | So, Asha, is Jack Smith going to be able to introduce all the evidence he needs to convict Donald Trump? |
0:07.0 | Eh, it's complicated. |
0:10.0 | I'm Asisharangappa. I teach national security law at Yale University. I'm a former FBI special |
0:20.0 | agent and I'm a legal contributor for ABC News. |
0:23.6 | And I'm Renata Mariati. |
0:25.2 | I'm a former federal prosecutor, a practicing lawyer, and a legal analyst. |
0:29.9 | And we're here to help you understand topics that can't be boiled down into a soundbite or a tweet. |
0:39.9 | So I would say that this latest unsealed filing by Jack Smith can definitely not be boiled down into a |
0:48.4 | sound bite or a tweet. |
0:51.0 | Even though there have been a lot of sound bites in terms of like some of the, I guess shocking |
0:55.9 | revelations of some of the things that, you know, he knows that Trump said or did. |
1:10.9 | Yeah, I have to say, Asha, it was one of the longer legal filings that I've gone through in my career and that's saying something because I've been doing practicing law for over 20 years. |
1:15.0 | I was going through it. I'm in the middle of my jury trial and in between and reading parts of this filing and wow it is very extensive with all sorts of arguments and all sorts of |
1:25.8 | evidence yeah and I think he received special permission to file something this long he |
1:31.3 | actually had to ask the court. |
1:33.4 | But I think it makes sense, and frankly, |
1:35.8 | I think it's a very elegantly and elegantly |
1:41.3 | written brief that is also, my opinion very accessible to a lay reader and I would encourage anyone who's listening to this to really to go online and find it and read at least the facts |
1:55.9 | portion because what struck me is in some ways taking out the whole DOJ subplot, which that was the piece of the conspiracy where Trump was asking |
2:09.4 | his acting Attorney General Jeffrey Clark to send false letters to states to Georgia |
2:14.8 | saying that there was you know to falsely claim that there was election fraud |
2:19.4 | the Supreme Court ruled that that was official those were official acts. Those were absolutely |
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