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The US Justice Department will seek a "speedy trial" against former president Donald Trump over allegations he sought to overturn the 2020 presidential election, special counsel Jack Smith tells media. SOUNDBITE
Special Counsel Jack Smith announces that an indictment accusing former US president Donald Trump of illegally taking highly classified documents was unsealed. SOUNDBITE
US President Joe Biden was not given advance notice of the Justice Department's appointment Friday of a special prosecutor to investigate his political rival Donald Trump, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tells reporters, saying, "we were not given advance notice, we were not aware of this investigation." SOUNDBITE
US Attorney General Merrick Garland says naming a special counsel to investigate Donald Trump is in the public interest because Trump has declared himself a candidate for the White House in 2024. SOUNDBITE
The American president Joe Biden says at NATO that Kremlin ciritc Alexei Navalny's death would be a "tragedy" that "would do nothing but hurt [Vladimir Putin's] relationships with the rest of the world" SOUNDBITE