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talk about this week, and we're starting off with a very high profile indictment. We're going to talk

Trump indictment. I know a lot of people maybe are confused as to what's going on. Trump's been kind of in and out of indictments, it seems.

Erica, you did a lot of research on this. What is going on for all the people out there that are like, what's going on with Trump? Sure. So it gets a little confusing with multiple

indictments going on, but this week, Trump, this was the big one. Trump pled not guilty to 37 charges of a federal indictment,

including, among other things, willful retention of national defense information, as well as

charges related to obstruction and making false statements about what kind of material he had,

specifically Mara Lago.

And the meat of the indictment was really these 31 separate counts against Trump for violating the 1917 espionage act.

And I spent some time going through all of the pages of the indictment, and I picked out just a couple of the most egregious charges, and the indictment

actually includes the evidence that they're bringing forward. And so what we see, you know,

among other things, is in July 2021, Trump had at his golf club in New Jersey, he recorded a meeting with a writer, a publisher,

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