Prosecutors tell Trump he is a target in federal classified documents probe

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🗓️ 8 June 2023

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Sources tell CNN that the Justice Department has informed former President Trump he is a target in federal investigation into the possible mishandling of classified documents. This could be a sign that prosecutors are inching closer to indicting the former President and solidifies that special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation is focused on Trump’s actions. Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General Elliot Williams joins AC360 to discuss how common it is for someone to be indicted after they are informed they’re a target of an investigation.

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0:00.0	Good evening tonight on 360 Breaking News.
0:03.7	Lawyers for the former president are officially told their client as a target in special council
0:07.9	Jack Smith's classified documents probe, as his former vice president announces he's running,
0:12.8	saying Trump should never be president again.
0:15.5	Also tonight, American cities shrouded in smoke because of Canadian wildfire, 75 million Americans
0:20.7	under air quality alerts when will the smoke clear.
0:24.4	Plus, inaugural poet Amanda Gorman has her book, Pull, from the Miami Area Grade School
0:29.0	because one parent complained, though turns out the parent never actually read the book.
0:33.4	Amanda Gorman joins me tonight.
0:35.7	We begin with the growing legal jeopardy that former president Trump now faces in the federal
0:39.7	documents investigation.
0:41.1	A letter from the Justice Department to the former president's attorneys saying he is a target
0:46.2	in a federal investigation.
0:47.8	It's often but not always a strong sign that the person in question will be indicted.
0:52.4	It is hard to overstate the unprecedented nature of this latest developments in his
0:56.3	case.
0:57.3	Colin joins us now with what we know.
0:59.9	What is the latest on this letter and what the Trump team reaction?
1:03.1	We haven't gotten a formal reaction from the Trump legal team so far.
1:06.4	But what we do know is that Justice Department prosecutors did recently inform the former
1:11.3	president's legal team that he is a target in that federal investigation.
1:15.4	And to whether or not there was mishandling, it classified documents, of course, an investigation
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