Welcome to the beat, everyone. We turn to breaking news. The Trump DOJ is indicting a former Trump

official from the first term. National Security Advisor John Bolton, who served the Trump

administration, indicted late today by a grand jury. The case involves allegations of

mishandling classified information. Now, this is a lengthy indictment,

unlike some of the recent cases we've been covering. We've got about 26 pages that we've been

flipping through, and they are trying to make a big case out of it. There's technically

18 criminal counts here that involve the retention that is holding onto or saving and the transmission

that is sharing national defense information. Now, it details an account that begins in about

2018 in August where the government says Bolton was abusing his position as NSA, sharing more

than a thousand pages of information about

his day-to-day activities with what they describe as two unauthorized individuals. So under the

rules here, they're not trying to name or shame those people, what we have reporting that suggests

it's his family, his wife and daughter, who were involved in what his lawyer says today was

basically a diary.

But the DOJ is saying that this involved the unlawful retention of documents, writings, and notes

relating to national defense in his own home. And then they used the same D-word saying it was

diary-like entries with, this is where they say the legal problem comes in, with the government

says classified information,

transcribing handwritten notes from his day's activities into word processing documents

sent through a commercial non-governmental messaging application to his wife's and daughter.

And I could just tell you that's a lot of legal language, but just to break that down into plain English,

they are saying that during his government

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