president pleaded not guilty to all 37 federal charges after turning himself in to the miamd. federal courthouse. now, hundreds of his supporters took to the streets outsidhundre the courthouse. some even prayed for trump at se tha arbitrarily stopped at. as he left the courthouse seemed kind of relaxedind of.. now, the justice department is alleging, in case you ve been in a cave the, that the for president mishandled classified documents that includedocumentdo us defense of weapons, secrets and even an attack plan on an unnamed foreign powen r filling. iran. w1 of the charges violate a la called the espionage act. now, whatever you think of donald trump st.donald actions,o put this all into context. the espionage ac c t is over 100 years old. president woodrow wilson signed pres into law to protect the nation from foreign spies duringring world war one. now, most prosecutions involving the espionage act have been reserved for actual spies like julius and ethel rosenberr g. they spi
bet they will fail and we will win bigger and betterfo thn ever before. r pres charging a formerth president of the united states under the espionage act 1 that917 wasn t meant for91 this an act for a crime so heinous that only the death penalty would do. withand threatening me with 400 years in prison for possessingt my own presidential papers, which just about every otherha president has done, is one ofr the most outrageous and vicious fol theories ever put forward in an american court of law. the espionage act has been used to go after traitors and spies. it has nothing to do with aresi formerdent president legally keeping his own documents as president. the law that applies to this case is nothatt the espionage a,
of slow in this case was right to sort of slow walk it, but here we set in of slow walk it, but here we set in the of slow walk it, but here we set in the most unbelievable day in set in the most unbelievable day in which i think no matter which day in which i think no matter which way day in which i think no matter which way donald trump spins it tonight, which way donald trump spins it tonight, no matter what he says tonight, tonight, no matter what he says tonight, it tonight, no matter what he says tonight, it is a tough day the democrats and i say that number one because you got the white house one because you got the white house telling tonight some really house telling tonight some really bombastic news, president biden saying inflation has fallen for 11 months and is the lowest in over months and is the lowest in over two months and is the lowest in over two years, continued progress over two years, continued progress bringing down costs for middle class
okay. so m the vasajort majority of t. yeah, i believe that that is an admission by jack smith that they were over classified that beey don t constitute nationalls defense information. the 31 documents that he hasen been charged wit with, those are going to have to be declassified. they re going to have to be releasedthe released, showto th they re going to have to be shown to the jury. and so even there, you know, classification, everybody talks about declassification of classification. to me, it doesn t really matter in this case, because whether somethindeclassi. g is classified or declassified, that s just somebody s opinion. right. claas to whether this constitus national defense information. the statutse will only prohibit the willful retention of documente statues that are natih defense information defined as that which the defendanant hg reason to believe, the disclosure of which would be damaginurity.g to national security. and so a lot of these things, if you talk about, yo
charges for his handling of classified documents. he has called this indictment baseless, ridiculous and election interference. he s accused of illegally retaining classifiedshowin information and then showing classified defense informationg to people who did not have security clearances. and also als obstructinge th the government s efforts to retrieve those documents. but take a looos k at this, brian. he got quite a positive reaction as he was headed out of at th miami today. you mentioned it at the top of the show. he stoppedd th in a cafe and thm crowd inside serenaded hime hour with the happy birthday song, as we are now just hours awas y. from the former president s 77th birthday. but righ but right now we re waiting for him to take the podium behind me. d to raihe s expected to raise c million for his campaign at the fund raiser, whicht about will begin after his remarks, which we re expecting will lastd about 30 minutes. hey, nate, the president was ordered not to discuss the