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Good morning, everyone. I'm Playbook co-author, Ryan Liza. It's Thursday, June 8th.

Three big stories driving the day in Washington and beyond today. Let's start with Mike Pence,

who made it official at a campaign event in Iowa yesterday. The quote that everyone is talking about is this. I believe that anyone who

puts themselves over the Constitution should never be president of the United States,

and anyone who asks someone else to put them over the Constitution should never be president

of the United States again. In that same speech, he made

it clear who he was talking about. His former boss, Donald Trump. And related to that Pence attack

on Donald Trump, last night, we learned that special counsel Jack Smith has issued a target

letter to Donald Trump, which means that an indictment over the

documents case could be imminent. And joining me now to talk about this is the person who broke

this story for Politico, Kyle Cheney. What is this target letter? What does it mean? And what

can we expect in the days and weeks ahead related to this

case?

So it's interesting.

It's a target letter is, in some ways, a very routine or mundane step in an investigation,

but in this case, it's a fairly monumental one because it's the clearest suggestion,

the clearest indication that Jack Smith and

the federal prosecutor is working for him are about to bring charges against Donald Trump.

It doesn't guarantee that they will, but a target letter means that they consider Donald Trump

a target. And what that means is they think the evidence is there to support criminal charges,

and they're basically treating him like he's already a defendant. That's giving him one opportunity to testify if he wants before the grand

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