New reporting indicates federal prosecutors formally told Trump’s lawyers he is a target of the classified docs investigation
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🗓️ 8 June 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight on the readout, Ms. Hutchison, did White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows ever |
| 0:10.7 | indicate that he was interested in receiving a presidential pardon related to January 6th? |
| 0:15.9 | Ms. Meadows did seek that pardon, yes, ma'am. |
| 0:20.2 | Whatever Trump did in his effort to overturn the election and take classified documents |
| 0:24.1 | home with him, there's a good chance Mark Meadows was privy to it. |
| 0:28.0 | And now he could be playing a pivotal role in the Special Counsel investigation. |
| 0:32.5 | Also tonight, major developments in the shooting death of AJ Owens, the suspect, who police |
| 0:37.3 | say fired through the front door, killing the Florida mother of four, has now been arrested. |
| 0:43.3 | And for the first time, we're seeing the heartbreaking aftermath of that violence, as |
| 0:47.8 | video shows AJ's son desperately seeking help for his dying mom. |
| 0:52.9 | But we begin tonight with big developments in the Special Counsel's investigation into |
| 0:59.2 | Donald Trump's mishandling of classified documents. |
| 1:02.1 | New reporting tonight from the Guardian indicates that federal prosecutors formally told Trump's |
| 1:07.8 | lawyers last week that Trump is a target of the criminal investigation, according to |
| 1:13.1 | two people briefed on the matter. |
| 1:15.1 | The Guardian adds that the lawyers were notified before they met on Monday, with Special |
| 1:20.4 | Counsel Jack Smith at DOJ headquarters, where they made the case that their client should |
| 1:25.7 | not be indicted. |
| 1:27.7 | Trump is making his own social media please, posting a new post hours ago, quoting him. |
| 1:34.9 | He says, no one has told me I'm being indicted and I shouldn't be because I've done nothing |
| 1:38.5 | wrong. |
| 1:39.7 | There's also new reporting today from the Washington Post indicating that just as department prosecutors |
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