Jonathan Turley, law professor at George Washington University, said during a panel discussion this week that the federal indictment against former President Donald Trump is “quite strong” and that Trump will have to “run the table” or else he could spend the rest of his life in prison.

Turley — who has taken the side of Trump in the past, including during his first impeachment — made the remarks during a discussion with attorney and former Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) and Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume.

“The problem is that he’s got to run the table, he’s 76 years old, [and] all the government has to do is stick the landing on one count and he could have a terminal sentence,” Turkey said. “You’re talking about crimes that have a 10- or 20-year period, as a maximum. The evidence here is quite strong.”

Turley said that he believes that once a trial jury is able to hear Trump’s defense team that some of the charges might get tossed, but it’s still a problem for the former president because he faces 37 counts.

“But some of this evidence is coming from his former counsel,” he said. “And these are very damaging statements that have been made against him. It may be hard to move those. The fact is, both things may be true. Yes, the Department of Justice may have been out to get him, but he made it easy. If you look at what is being described in this indictment, [when] confronted with someone that he felt was trying to get him, he couldn’t have made it more easy for them to do so.”

Gowdy, a former prosecutor. was asked about the possibility that some of the evidence may be ruled inadmissible and hence never seen by the jury. Gowdy responded by suggesting that the most damning piece of evidence against Trump comes from Trump’s “own mouth.”

“Well, the most damning piece of evidence to me is the audio tape. I mean, you want to talk about consciousness of guilt,” he said. “You want to talk about knowledge and intent. I mean, those are the darlings of a prosecutor’s nursery. And that came from President Trump’s own mouth.”

Hume said that in order for Trump to win 2024, should he become the party’s nominee, that he will have to convince people who did not vote for him in 2020 that they should vote for him now. Hume said that it was “hard” seeing Trump being able to do that.

Law professor Jonathan Turley, who has defended former President Donald Trump in the past, on the federal indictment facing the president: “This evidence here is quite strong.” pic.twitter.com/jMwVbAUNS0

— Jason Rantz on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) June 11, 2023

CBS News investigative journalist Catherine Herridge explained during an interview over the weekend what some of the classified codings mean that were on the sensitive government documents that investigators recovered from former President Donald Trump.

Herridge, who worked for years at Fox News covering stories that the mainstream media often downplayed, gave her analysis on Sunday during an interview with John Dickerson on “Face The Nation.”

“What jumps out to me, John, is when you go to the section the willful retention of national defense information, by my count, there are 21 top secret documents, and the disclosure of top secret information has the expectation of exceptionally grave damage to national security,” she said. “But what stands out to me is some of the classified codings, like TK, or Talent Keyhole.”

“You don’t see that very often,” she said. “That’s about intelligence from overhead imagery. For example, if we’re looking at a terrorist target, do we have such good visibility that we can count the hairs on their head? Can we see what they’re eating for breakfast on their terrorist patio? Those are capabilities that we don’t want our adversaries to know that we have.”

“And then also Special Access Programs, or SAP, these are highly restricted programs because of the sensitivity of the intelligence and the technology, such as stealth technology, for example,” Herridge continued. “Think of classified information like the Pentagon. Special Access Programs are these handful of rooms where there are just a limited number of keys to control and restrict access to that information.”

Herridge said that some of the materials recovered by investigators were “way beyond top secret” records.

“Some of these are way beyond top secret, like, I said, Talent Keyhole, when you’re talking about Special Access Programs or SCI, sensitive compartmentalized information,” she said. “These really are the crown jewels of the U.S. intelligence community.”

Herridge noted later on in the show that individuals who have the clearance to handle these types of documents will face immediate consequences if the documents are mishandled even for just a brief moment.

“I have contacts who work in the nuclear weapons capability arena,” she said. “Let’s say you have a nuclear document, it’s on top of the photocopier, and you walk away, you leave it there. Your clearance is gone. You are out the door. There are immediate consequences.”

“Some of these are way beyond top secret,” CBS News’ Senior Investigative Correspondent @CBS_Herridge says of 21 top secret documents laid out in 37-count indictment against former president Donald Trump, includes TK (Talent Keyhole) imagery intelligence, pic.twitter.com/OlRykmCdNG

— Catherine Herridge (@CBS_Herridge) June 11, 2023