Sources: Trump team seeks info on evidence and witnesses after special counsel target letter

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🗓️ 20 July 2023

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Sources tell CNN that former President Trump’s team of lawyers and advisers are trying to find out if there is any evidence or witnesses they don’t know about that are bolstering special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into the efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The former president said he received a target letter from Smith over the weekend. CNN Chief Correspondent Kaitlan Collins tells Anderson Cooper if the Trump team has responded to the target letter yet. Plus, former Arkansas governor and current candidate for the Republican presidential nomination Asa Hutchinson joins AC360 to discuss whether he thinks the Justice Department has been weaponized against the former President with another potential indictment possible.

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0:00.0	Tonight at 360, what is the special counsel know and who told them that's what the Trump
0:05.6	team is trying to find out tonight, Caitlin Collins joined us for her latest reporting.
0:09.7	Also tonight, the Justice Department investigating what it calls, quote, troubling reports on
0:13.8	quote, about Texas border authorities allegedly pushing migrants back into the Rio Grande
0:18.4	and denying them water.
0:19.4	We'll have a live report from the southern border.
0:21.9	And later new details about what motivated a US Army private to race across the DMZ into
0:26.8	North Korea.
0:28.3	Good evening, thanks for joining us a lot to get to tonight.
0:30.5	We begin with behind the scenes drama unfolding as the former president faces a possible
0:34.6	second federal indictment in as many months.
0:37.3	The grand jury hearing the evidence in this case is expected to meet tomorrow and indictment
0:41.2	if there is one could come anytime after that.
0:43.7	Sources tell CNN the 2020 election case appears to be bigger than Trump's legal team may
0:48.2	have been expecting in part because of the wide scope that the charges mentioned in the
0:52.7	target letter the former president received.
0:54.4	They are deprivation of rights, conspiracy to commit an offense against or defraud the
0:58.8	United States and tampering with a witness.
1:01.4	That's according to unnamed sources who spoke to multiple news outlets, including the Wall
1:04.8	Street Journal.
1:05.8	Now, we should note that these are titles from the US criminal code that can cover broad
1:09.4	range of crimes and will dig into those charges in a moment.
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