tonight on the reidout there s something dangerous happening in america. there s an extremist movement that does not share the basic beliefs in our democracy. all of us are being asked right now, what will we do to maintain our democracy? history is watching. the world is watching. president biden s powerful new ad on the trump threat to democracy amid new polling that shows a shocking number of americans don t believe what they saw with their own eyes on january 6th. plus, two new challenges to trump s place on the ballot. this time in florida and illinois. as a deadline looms for the u.s. supreme court to decide on his disqualification in colorado. also tonight, the scandal that the republican-led oversight committee won t be investigating. the millions of dollars trump raked in from foreign governments while he was president. we begin tonight with the 2024 election cycle that s already under way. nearly three years after a heavily armed trump incited mob atta
the united states of america, versus donald j trump. we have one set of laws in this country. and they apply to everyone. , tonight the stunning 49-page indictment. 37 criminal counts, secret national security documents, strewn around his country club, on stage in a ballroom, on the floor in the bathroom. a conspiracy to hide them from the feds, and the lies that he told to cover it up. rachel maddow, lawrence o donnell, aubry melbourne, joy, read are here for msnbc s special coverage of the second indictment of donald trump. good evening from new york. welcome back to our special coverage. i m chris hayes here at 30 rock with the whole team. as well as the great and the good, rachel maddow who is joining us remotely on this historic day. and unprecedented, is an understatement. 37 count indictment against the 45th president of the united states. was unsealed today. a special counsel, jack smith, made his first public comments since his appointment by attorney general,
these bombs today exploding feet from the iranian general s tomb. the questions still tonight is who did it. i m kaitlan collins, and this is the source. tonight, donald trump has officially filed that appeal to overturn last month s explosive ruling from colorado s high court that declared he was ineligible to appear on the state s primary ballot, determining that he had engaged in an insurrection. the new appeal tonight is only raising new pressure on the nine justices that you see here to settle this matter once and for all or potentially risk chaos in a presidential election year. with similar battles over the ballot and trump bubbling up in other states as well, we re left with a key question tonight, can the former president be disqualified from holding public office again under the constitution s insurrectionist ban, and do states get to make that decision? trump has also appealed the decision in maine that happened to remove him from its ballot. that was to the stat
say, we now have two standards of justice in our country. the democrat communists who want to jail their opponents while they protect the murderers who prowl our cities day and night, and other brazen criminals. the linking, rather, his own complaint about its own prosecutions with his views on crime, in line the way the republicans written in 2022. he s also gonna say, either we have a deep state, or we have a democracy. either the deep state destroys america, or we destroy the deep state. yasmin, that goes back to 2016, the same kind of grievance about being investigated by the fbi, by robert mueller. and now by the special counsel. we ve heard from the former president since he was, in fact, the president of the united states. a speech getting underway here today, we ll see whether former president knows anger and frustration about his indictment overcomes the written words prepared in front of him by aids. and what they hope will be a speech that taps into more of the vie
transcript. whether he now faces more heat that changes his mind we ve seen before, that s how far in he is, the person you see on your screen, not well-known but long loyal military aide and personal aide to donald trump in the post-presidency. i want to read some more from this. we have so much new material with regard to katy s point that donald trump has long avoided texts and emails, but he hasn t stopped everyone else from using them on his behalf. here you have january 13th, 2022, the doj reading from page 19 says nauta texted trump employee 2 about trump personally, quote, trackingboxes, he s tracking the boxes, more to follow today on whether he wants to go through more today or tomorrow. nauta writes to another anonymous employee, trump employee 2 in the indictment, one thing he asked was for new covers for the boxes. can we get new box covers before giving them out on monday, and the employee replies, yes, i will get that. this is contemporaneous, this is real. the