Trump could be indicted for a third time as soon as this week in Jan 6 probe – latest updates

NBC News’s Frank Thorp V reports that he spotted Georgia Governor Brian Kemp in the US Capitol this afternoon after a meeting with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

The governor says he has not met with Jack Smith’s team regarding the investigations into Donald Trump: “I have not talked to anybody from the special counsel’s office, no.”

He described his meeting with Mr McConnell as “good”. When asked if he was interested in running for the Senate in the future, he said: “I am focused on ’24, winning Georgia in ’24, the road to the White House is coming through Georgia.”

Former president Donald Trump, who is leading the polls for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, said he would consider allowing one of his Republican rivals in the race to “possibly” join his ticket.

On Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures, Mr Trump specifically pointed out entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and South Carolina Sen Tim Scott from the crowded GOP field. Awkwardly, there was no mention of his former Vice President Mike Pence.

Donald Trump has reached out to some of his top allies on Capitol Hill to strategise how they’re going to defend him and go on the offence against Jack Smith’s special counsel probe, CNN reports.

The former president is said to have spoken with both House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik.

Jack Smith’s team has contacted former Arizona Governor Doug Ducey, who Donald Trump pressured to overturn the 2020 election, CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reports.

A spokesperson for Governor Ducey confirms the contact and says he’s been responsive, Collins reports.

“Yes, he’s been contacted. He’s been responsive, and just as he’s done since the election, he will do the right thing,” a spokesman for Ducey told CNN.

In 2020, then-president Trump called Mr Ducey while he was literally in the middle of certifying Arizona’s election results. The governor looked at his phone (which was playing a ringtone version of Hail to the Chief) silenced the call and didn’t answer.

Trump relating to the January 6 attack on the US Capitol and his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election as soon as this week, The Independent has learned.

A source familiar with the special counsel’s probe and Department of Justice operating procedures told The Independent that the earliest an indictment could be handed down is late Thursday or Friday, after the deadline prosecutors set for Mr Trump to avail himself of their invitation to testify before the grand jury investigating crimes relating to the Capitol attack.

Andrew Feinberg has the latest.

Former Donald Trump legal adviser John Eastman’s attorney John Burnham released a statement about

“Our client has received no target letter, and we don’t expect one since raising concerns about illegality in the conduct of an election is not now and has never been sanctionable.”

Journalist Megyn Kelly suggested the ongoing – and very public – feud between herself and Donald Trump was “nonsense”, despite the former president having once made a crude reference about her being on her period.

Ms Kelly said the pair had buried the hatchet after having a private conversation ahead of their individual speeches at the Turning Point Action conference in Florida.

Gustaf Kilander has the story.

Republican presidential hopeful Chris Christie has mocked rival Donald Trump’s take on ending Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, quipping: “Move over Churchill”.

The former president announced he had a “one-day” plan for ending the war in Ukraine, stating in an interview with Fox News that he knew the leaders of Ukraine and Russia “very well” and that he would “have the deal done in one day”.

But Mr Trump’s comments were ridiculed by Mr Christie, who invoked British wartime leader Winston Churchill in his mockery of his foe.