'They’ve gone deep': CBS reporter details special 'power' in Jack Smith’s 'sprawling' case against Trump

CBS chief election correspondent Robert Costa on Sunday detailed the one thing that separates special counsel Jack Smith’s “sprawling” case against former President Donald Trump from the House of Representative’s Jan. 6 committee that investigated the same events; namely, that Smith’s office has “subpoena power.”

Speaking with CBS “Face the Nation,” Costa noted the 2024 presidential campaign “is going to come back again and again” to “Trump’s conduct in and around January 6.”

“So even if the Supreme Court steps in in the coming days and weeks and rules on the Colorado State Supreme Court ruling, there’s still going to be that ultimate lingering question of what happens in the Jack Smith special counsel case and whether Trump is convicted of conspiring against the United States.”

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Costa noted “the special counsel has phone records, he has memos and diary entries from key witnesses like former Vice President Mike Pence” as well as “key eyewitness testimony form people who were inside the Oval Office with Trump.”

The CBS corresponded added the public got a “bit of a taste of this” with the House Jan. 6 Committee, “but they had something in the special counsel’s office that the Jan. 6 committee never had — which is subpoena power to really go deep with witnesses and not just get public testimony and some depositions."

"They've gone deep," he continued. "And I've talked to people who participated in this investigation as lawyers, sometimes even as witnesses. And it's evident to me, based on my conversations with sources, that Jack Smith has a sprawling case against former President Donald Trump."

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