So were going to do it the way we try to do it around here, which is with the facts and details first, and then well discuss them together. Todays proceeding began around 4 15 p. M. Eastern. Defendant trump was seated with his lawyers, just as he was during his last arraignment. You may recall. This is a sketch from that day in a Federal Court in florida. That was how he looked then. Todays arraignment adjourned so recently that we actually dont have those actual Court Sketches yet. We will get them and we will bring them to you on msnbc at whatever hour we get them. Lets put it like this when this year began, no former president had ever been indicted and arraigned. Tonight were reporting on Defendant Trumps third arraignment in four months. So he does know this process. Today he was digitally fingerprinted, submitted details like his birthday and Social Security number william a know that special counsel jack smith was in the courtroom because our reporters spotted him, seated roughl
department of justice there was no voter fraud. he was told by his top soldier general milley there was no voter fraud. he was told way every arm and his own staff. to your point, that s one of the three conspiracies smith lays out. there s another one of the three where he says the conspiracy was to delay the certification. and when you look at that, right, they did it. they delayed the certification. he set out to delay it. they did delay it. and tantalizingly near the end of the indictment, they have a narrative he was continuing on with that after the violence on the evening of the 6th. and all three counts when you read all these three laws together, what you re really hearing is the pattern of, i m going the lie about what is happening and who s doing it, right? because we also have the fact