his own special prosecutor to, quote, go after the president. he s got a scorched earth political strategy. do his lawyers have a legal strategy equal to special prosecutor jack smith s case. shoved out of the headlines by trump s indictment and impending trial, so how do they regain the political spotlight? the commuting nightmare for those in and around philadelphia, forced to find a new way to work after part of a major interstate collapses. the effort to fix it as officials say it could be out of commission for months. we begin with those new details about how former president donald trump plans to fight 37 first-of-their-kind criminal charges both in court and in public. he s flying to south florida at this hour for tomorrow s arraignment. where we ll see the case begin to play out in realtime. first, with that arraignment in miami, followed just a few hours later by trump s first major fund-raiser of the 2024 campaign. the public response has been typical trump, s
i ll be back to continue our special coverage of the indictment of donald trump, joining my colleagues alicia and then the, simone sanders hand sound, and me, at eight pm eastern for more in-depth reporting. and analysis, but first, there s still two more hours of velshi on this saturday morning. coming up next, the latest on the trump indictment. what we know, what comes next, and what effect it s going to have on the 2024 election. another hour of velshi begins, right now. good morning. saturday, june 10th. i m ali velshi. for the second time in just a little over two months, the twice impeached ex president, donald trump, has been indicted. this, time by the federal government. yesterday, jack smith made his first official public appearance as special counsel to announce the historic indictment. he also underlined why it s so important that this case moves forward. adherence to the rule of law is a bedrock principle of the department of justice. and our nation
ari, you re transformed yourself on to another floor, another studio, and we ll be back around the big set together. the magic of tv. i have been seeing you a lot and look forward to seeing you. have a great show. thank you. right now our coverage continues. today the justice department arrested, booked and arraigned donald trump. this is how trump looked today according to new court sketches we just got into your newsroom. since federal courts limit cameras, we are looking at the sketches. this is how we are seeing and learning about this very new breaking news event that spilled over the late afternoon. he s the first former president ever indicted by the former government he ran. this picture is the image that donald trump worked very hard to avoid people seeing. i m going to leave it up on the screen and give you that context, because he is a former president, he is a politician, he s a candidate for office right now, and this image and this moment is something that
you on mondays anymore. how come you re here? you know, there is stuff going on. thought it would be good to be in the chair today. can i say i listened to your debut deja news today which i loved. thank you very much. fantastic stuff. i had actually read something a little while ago. very brief about that episode. and loved it. anyway people should check it out. thank you very much first of all. very kind of you to say. i should credit you actually because it was an interview with a journalist and historian on your podcast which in part got isaac and i really interested in that topic. it is what put it on the table for us to consider as one of our episodes i love that. so you were part of the inspiration for doing that whole story. great. thank you, rachel. thanks, chris. much appreciate it. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. very happy to have you here. as chris mentioned, we do have a new podcast that just launched the first episode today calle
justice department throws 37 charges at former president donald trump saying he mishandled classified documents. the indictments say the papers laid out everything from america s military weaknesses to foreign nations nuclear capacities. what does it mean for u.s. security? should he have been indicted? i m an innocent man. i did nothing wrong. then artificial intelligence may be the most important development of our time, but is it the most dangerous as well? we know it will replace jobs and blur the lines of reality, but could it be a larger, existential threat? i ll talk to geoffrey hinton known as the godfather of ai who says yes. the worry is can we keep them working for us when they re much more intelligent than us? also, how do you end extreme poverty globally? it s a very tall order, but r.j. banga wants to do just that. he s the brand new head of the world bank. he s tasked with taking global action in a world where the west and russia are at odds