'The boss' wanted surveillance video deleted: new details in updated Donald Trump indictment
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🗓️ 29 July 2023
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USA TODAY Justice Department Correspondent Bart Jansen with new details in updated Donald Trump indictment.
President Joe Biden has publicly acknowledged his 4-year-old grandchild for the first time.
The Ukraine dam collapse disaster continues.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to five things I'm Dana Taylor, today is Saturday, July 29, 2023. |
| 0:19.1 | New details on the updated Donald Trump indictment. President Biden publicly acknowledges |
| 0:24.1 | his four-year-old granddaughter for the first time, and the Ukraine-Damn Collapse Disaster |
| 0:29.3 | continues. |
| 0:37.4 | Special counsel Jack Smith added new charges against former President Donald Trump on Thursday |
| 0:42.6 | and indicted a second Trump aid, Carlos D. LeVera, in the classified documents obstruction |
| 0:48.5 | case. For more on these developments, I'm joined now by Justice Department correspondent |
| 0:53.6 | Bart Johnson. Bart, thanks for coming on the podcast. |
| 0:57.0 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:58.2 | So let's start by recapping the new charges filed by special counsel Jack Smith. |
| 1:03.5 | Who is Carlos D. LeVera? |
| 1:06.4 | He's a 56-year-old staffer at Mar-a-Lago. He was the property manager most recently and |
| 1:12.9 | he had been a valet there. He basically ran things around the compound. He faces four |
| 1:19.6 | charges, basically conspiracy to obstruct justice and then helping conceal the documents. |
| 1:26.4 | Three new charges were added against Trump, so Trump's up to 4040 now with a couple of |
| 1:32.4 | extra obstruction charges and an extra retention of classified documents. Basically the new |
| 1:39.3 | information in the indictment is that this third person, Carlos D. LeVera, allegedly helped |
| 1:46.9 | move boxes containing documents from a storage room over to the private residence of Trump |
| 1:55.3 | at Mar-a-Lago and then moved some of the boxes back. This is all happening amid federal |
| 2:01.2 | subpoenas for classified documents at the compound. A Trump lawyer reviewed the boxes |
| 2:07.2 | in early June to try to satisfy a subpoena for additional classified documents. He found |
| 2:12.7 | 38 classified records and returned those to federal authorities in a sealed envelope. |
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