i m stephanie ruhle. we continue our breaking news coverage on this historic night. nbc news has confirmed, donald trump, the nation s 45th president, has been indicted on seven charges in connection with his mishandling of classified documents. let that sink in for a moment. we ve been talking about it for months but here it is. for the first time in u.s. history,, a former president federal charges trump has received a summons to appear in u.s. district court on june 13th. that is this coming tuesday. the indictment remains under seal. sources tell nbc news. the charges include conspiracy to obstruct. and the new york times reports, the charges also include, quote, willfully retaining national defense secrets in violation of the espionage act. according to people familiar with the matter. the charges, of course, come after a lengthy investigation, led by justice department special counsel, jack smith. tonight, donald trump responded on his social media platform. watch this.
douglas ross for the conservatives, labour s anas sarwar and alex cole hamilton, of the liberal demorats but not the scottish greens. the israeli military has announced the deaths of four more people who were abducted by hamas on the 7th of october. they ve been named as nadav popplewell, chaim peri, yoram metzger, and amiram cooper. israel s army says the hostages were killed during an israeli operation in khan younis. claudia sheinbaum has been elected as mexico s first woman president. preliminary results showed the 61 year old former mayor of mexico city had won close to 60% of the vote in sunday s election. she will replace her mentor, the outgoing president andres manuel lopez obrador. a final message from rugby league legend and motor neurone disease and motor neurone disease campaigner rob burrow has been released as part of a new bbc documentary. the message was recorded by the former leeds rhinos star especially for the programme, called there s only one rob burrow,
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legal proceedings because not only will this be the case in this trial court, in the district court, but these matters will be litigated in the circuit court of appeals. the 11th circuit, where the former president has already had two cases parts of the court of appeals. in the course of his efforts to kneecap the execution of the search warrants at mar-a-lago. and the justice apartments ability to use information obtained during that search. so the circuit is already wise to this delay tactics, and donald trump will not find a court environment. i would expect him to be afforded all of the due process. that any other defendant receives. and that something very important for us to all understand. donald trump should be treated fairly like any other defendant. he is presumed innocent until he is convicted, guilty. by a jury of his peers. it is the integrity of that process that will permits the american people to accept an indictment. and the prosecution. and the conviction.
questions. today they ve asked for witness testimony from about five different witnesses. and there s also a lot of concern about the schedule going forward. they re supposed to have tomorrow off and off into the new year holidays. but the judge is concerned about covid. and she has indicated that she apparently wants the jury to deliberate every day going forward to avoid any one juror, court official, anyone, a defense attorney, prosecutor, becoming infected by covid because the problem is so prevalent in new york. it s everywhere. and the judge is very concerned about a possible mistrial if a juror should become infected or anyone in the court environment, and there s a need for quarantine. so that s looming over the trial. things have been proceeding. we re over 30 hours now. how long will this take? no one knows, and it s been complicated by the fact that the jury had a break in the deliberations around the christmas holiday.