Jack Smith

I understand that the district judge, Aileen Cannon, the Trump appointee who oversaw the case in Florida, issued a gag order that prevents you from discussing any parts of the classified documents investigation that is not already public.

I wrote a report...

The Attorney General, it was submitted to him.

I understand generally that there's been litigation about whether this report would be public or not.

I have not been a party to that litigation.

I just know that there is an order, and I know the Department of Justice, the current Department of Justice, has interpreted that order in a way that I cannot speak about anything that could possibly be in that report and its findings.

Is that correct?

I'm sorry?

When Judge Cannon issued the gag order, she cited pending cases against Trump's co-defendants.

Is that correct?

That's my recollection.

Are those cases still pending?

No, they're not.

No, they're not.

So there is no reason, from where I sit, for this important information to be not made public.

professionally keep apprised of various MAGA right-wing theories, stories.

You know, they made a big deal about the phone records of U.S.

senators, and we'll talk about that a little later.

The oath of office thing, I had not really gotten a lot of, and can you—

So I was a little like, what's the deal here that he wasn't ever really the special counsel or something?