Judiciary Committee Hearing on Trump Investigations

the Judiciary Committee today. Hello, I'm John Roberts in Washington.

Whew, that was a scorcher, Sandra.

Yeah, it was a ... Uh, good to be with you, John.

I'm Sandra Smith in New York.

This is America Reports. So Smith pressed by Republican senators on

his

office's potential overreach during his investigations into

then former President Trump. Smith, maintaining his team, was

not playing politics when he came to the conclusion

that President Trump engaged in

serious crimes.

Senator John Kennedy is in that hearing room.

He is going to join us a little bit later in the program.

Saying it like only he can, but first Justice Correspondent David

Spunt is on

Capitol Hill with the latest. David.

Hello to you both. Good afternoon.

This hearing is now approaching four hours.

Senator Josh Hawley appears to be the final senator here, uh, before this

wraps up for the day. Jack Smith has remained fairly calm

and fairly defiant,

also saying that he has no regrets about what he did. Watch.

I stand by my decisions as special counsel, including my

decision to bring charges against President Trump.

He's been peppered with questions about his two high-profile probes into then

former President Donald Trump. Smith charged Trump with attempting to

overturn the

2020 presidential election and storing classified documents at his

Palm

Beach, Florida estate.

Highly sensitive national security information was held in a

bathroom and a ballroom where events and gatherings took

place.

Chairman Chuck Grassley announcing publicly for the first time

that Jack Smith

obtained physical copies of nearly 4,800 bank

checks written by Americans who sent small dollar donations, 15,

20, 25, 30 dollars to support President Trump from

2019 to

2023.

Every member of this committee ought to be outraged for what happened to their

constituents.

Smith also pressed on why he received toll phone records from members of Congress,

records that give the time, date, and length of phone calls,

but not exactly what

was said.

Did you initiate any wiretaps

relative to members of Congress of either party?

No. The records that we're talking about

are non-content

records. The toll records are non-content records that we

sought to corroborate evidence we had.

In addition to members of Congress, we are learning today that some 50 news

organizations, including Fox News, had some of their messages

swept up because 87 White House phones from the Trump

1 administration, people that worked at the White House,

were communicating with

members of the media. A spokesperson for Senator Grassley said

those names

will not be released of members of the media to protect privacy.

Jack Smith, I will note, is here voluntarily. Back to you.

David Spunt with the latest on that for us. Thank you. John?

Sandra, Lindsay Clancy making her first return to

the courtroom after her triple

murder case was ruled a mistrial