hey everybody, good afternoon. i m yasmin vossoughian. donald trump is in for the fight of his life. the former president faces a tuesday arraignment on 37 criminal counts, involving his refusal to turn over classified documents that never should have been in his possession. this hour, he s gonna be taking his defense public within appearance in georgia. as his gop political rivals tiptoe around the story. in addition to the politics of, this we are going to dive deeply into the substance of the allegations in the indictment. it is a treasure trove of damning material from photos that showed documents being hoarded and bedrooms, bathrooms, and even the mar-a-lago ballroom. conversations where trump himself waves around top secret material as well as evidence, in which he apparently tries to get his own lawyers to lie to the feds. looking for the documents. we will get into all of this coming up. we begin with the new information that we re learning with the unsealing of the h
i-95, the highway remains closed in both directions to traffic, firefighters are trying to extinguish an ongoing fire that you can see there, we will bring you more on the updates as soon as we get them on the story. straight ahead, we are going to miami for a report on what to expect ahead of trump s arraignment on tuesday. plus, the twice impeached now twice indicted president, is telling his followers that the justice department is not just coming after him, it s coming after them to. i m going to talk to the person who literally wrote the book on authoritarian strongman about his dangerous line of attack, another hour of velshi begins right now. right now. good morning, i m ali velshi, in today s trump suspected to surrender himself to authorities in a miami courthouse where he will be arraigned on a 37 count indictment regarding his mishandling of government records and obstruction of justice. it will be the second time in about two months that the twice impeached former
there s an underground entrance where the secret service can drive him into the building and bring him up to the upper floors where he ll be processed by the federal marshals. he ll be placed under arrest once he comes into the building and then the processing begins. it s a standard thing. they re doing an electronic fingerprinting of him. these usually involve photographs. we expect walt nada to be booked with a mugshot. the former president is very recognizable. we don t think the marshals will take photographs of him. from there he ll go to the courthouse and a judge will read him the charges and he ll have a chance to enter his plea. the question of his release, jake, we don t expect he s going to be there s going to be any issues with him being released. the issue we expect, however, to come up is whether he can communicate with anybody who might be considered witnesses; of course, is an issue of witness tampering which has been a concern already in this case. evan,
colleagues alicica menendez, jonathan capehart, ayman mohyeldin, symone sanders-townsend, and with us from miami, katie phang. the twice impeached, and now twice indicted donald trump has become the first ex president to face criminal charges from the federal government. over the next two hours, my colleagues and i, along with some special guests, are going to break down the justice department s case against the former commander-in-chief. a case that we saw for the first time just yesterday. when the bombshell, 37 count indictment was unsealed. the indictment, which also names the trump aide and valet, walt nauta, as his coconspirator. outlined criminal charges related to more than 100 classified documents that federal agents recovered from trump s mar-a-lago resort last august. trump faces 31 counts of violating the espionage act, through willful retention of classified records. he faces another six counts stemming from his alleged efforts to impede the investigation. nauta
states nuclear programs, potential vulnerabilities of the united states and its allies to plan military attacks, to military attack, and plans for possible retaliation in response to a foreign attack, end quote. according to the indictment, this is what donald trump did with those state secrets. for the first few months, some boxes to on the stage of an event space known as the white and gold ballroom before they were moved to the business center. then, some boxes were stored in a bathroom, stacked high above the marble floors, surrounding the toilet and blocking access to the bum, shower, not blocking access to the toilet. they were finally moved to a storage room in 2021, piled high along the walls of the room, but this case isn t just about mishandling the highly sensitive documents. the government also alleges the former presidents quote, endeavored to obstruct the fbi and grand darien vista geishas end quote. for a period of time, trump repeatedly ignored the fbi s order