in february, of 2021, joe biden had been president for less than a month. the united states senate was still in the middle of impeaching the previous president for stoking insurrection. the house impeachment managers, all of them democrats, were making the case that even though trump was no longer president, he had to be impeached because otherwise future presidents would be free to commit any crime or misdemeanor as long as they did so right before leaving office. to rebut that, trump s lawyers offered this counter argument. if my colleague on this side of the chamber actually think that president trump committed a criminal offense, and let s understand, a high crime is a felony and misdemeanor is a misdemeanor. the words haven t changed that much overtime. after he s out of office, you go and arrest him. so there is no opportunity where the president of the united states can run rampant in january at the end of his term and just go away scot-free. the department of just
the guns, kit is greater. think about those kids practicing the speeches at home, heartbreaking pleas for change from what is now known as the lockdown generation takes us off the air tonight. and on that note, i wish you all a very good and safe night. for all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late, see you at the end of tomorrow. the end of tomorrow the united states senate was still in the middle of impeaching the previous president for stoking insurrection. the house impeachment managers, all of them democrats, were making the case that even though trump was no longer president, he had to be impeached because otherwise future presidents would be free to commit any crime or misdemeanor as long as they did so right before leaving office. to rebut that, trump s lawyers offered this counter argument. if my colleague on this side of the chamber actually think that president trump committed a criminal offense, and let s understand
we are continuing to follow the breaking news now in miami where for the first time, u.s. president has been arraigned on federal criminal charges. just a few hours ago, donald trump turned himself in for what is his second criminal indictment. the first, of course, having been in new york. in miami he made his first appearance in a federal court room charged by special prosecutor jack smith related to the handling of miss classified documents along with his co-conspirator for moving dozens of boxes all while being caught on video then lying about it to the fbi. at no point did trump say a word to u.s. magistrate judge john goodman. it was his lawyer who pleaded not guilty on his behalf. the only restriction, placed on trump by the judge during the brief hearing is that he is not to have any contact, specifically about the case, with any possible witnesses including nauta, who still works for trump. i guess that will be based on the honor system. the date will be set for the
news on special counsel jack smith s criminal investigation into donald trump s alleged mishandling of hundreds of classified documents after he left office. you think of that investigation i want to bet your mind goes straight to the events of august 8th last year. you ll likely think of the fbi s court authorized search of mar-a-lago and of the 100-plus classified documents the fbi found on the premises that day. tonight s news centers on a time about two months before that, june 2nd and why the events of that day may be key to john smith s case. tonight the washington post describes the events that took place on that day as being of importance to investigators in the classified documents case. we ve previously known may 11th of last year trump s attorneys received a subpoena. then we know june 3rd an attorney from the department of justice and three fbi agents met with trump s lawyers at mar-a-lago to collect those documents from trump s team. now, we also already knew a
er good evening chris, book bans, just saying the phrase book bans. very understandable, doesn t seem to pull well, like so many things, desantis is overseeing the state of florida. it is a mystery to me how he does not think this is an absolute kryptonite in terms of a net national bay. more kryptonite, further goes on, i found the washington post finding that there are 11 people who are filing. okay, that s cancellation, 30 million. i think the rest of folks are like, i don t need to go through every book in the kids libra. please make me less involved. that s what i say. enough emails. anyway, that s one of another show. thank you, chris, as always. thanks to at-home for joining us this evening. today, for only the second time in american history, a former president appeared in court as a criminal defendant. the first time, last month. when donald trump is arraigned on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. in the manhattan district attorney s case again