a federal grand jury indicting former president donald trump for allegedly violaing the espionage act, conspiracy to obstruct and making false statements in connection to more than 100 classified documents he retained and did not turn over after leaving office. the former president facing criminal charges months after being indicted by manhattan s district attorney in connection to a hush money scandal. all while widening his lead in republican presidential primary polls in the race to face joe biden in 2024. a lot of developments in just the last few hours. at this hour, there are big changes to the trump legal team. the lawyer who spoke for mr. trump throughout last night and this morning is resigning, along with his fellow attorney, replaced by todd blanche as leader of the upcoming defense in federal court. breaking this hour, trump writing in a social media post that walt nauta, who worked at mar-a-lago, after working in the trump white house, is also under indictmen
there s a ddirth of facts. you know what s not in here? what did he do or not do? this is a classic donald trump where adjectives and adverbs replace discussion of facts. he is likely to be the co-conspirator and the person who made false statements. this is where legal analysis melds with literary analysis. thanks to all. coming up, what we know about the reported charges of espionage and how national security may have been impacted. that s next on special coverage of the indictment of donald trump is back in just 60 seconds on msnbc. stay with us.
committee. they are holding their first field hearing here in the rgb later tonight. john. john: a lot of fentanyl coming through the ports of entry, but also coming in between the ports of entry as well. griff jenkins for us, some very compelling pictures, thank you. excellent reporting on all of that as usual. remember the flightmares at the airports during the holidays? what went wrong and if he thinks it could happen again. john: still no word from president biden on the mysterious objects shot down by the u.s. military after waiting what some day was too long to take down the chinese spycraft, did biden overreact to the latest unknown objects? senator tom tillis will weigh in just ahead. when you don t provide information and there s a dirth of information, it did lead to wild speculation, it can lead to unfounded fears. homeowners:
well, that s every mother s worst nightmare. i live in florida for example. if you have several children, i have five, you re trying to evacuate miami or south florida and migrate to georgia or north carolina and a cat 3 or 4 is encroaching quickly upon you and your electric car dies. same thing with oil; right. i mean, oil evaporates. gas pumps dry up. there s a dirth when everyone is looking for the same thing, scarcities loom. there s no reason we should be knocking on the door of venezuela or iran or saudi arabia when we ve closed the dakota pipelines and keystone pipelines. the u.s. could be enormously energy indent and we had so independent and we had so much capacity and we ve handicapped ourselves into forcing oil prices higher. it s a real tragedy and germany encountered the same situation making themselves wholly vulnerable to russian energy and
is what we heard from the parents of jesse lewis here, some emotional testimony including from his mother, scarlet lewis, who said the years of lies coming from alex jones not only they felt stained the legacy of their son, but also tore memented them for yea. this is how scarlett lewis responded or at least reacted to the decision handed down by a jury yesterday in texas. we can choose love and that we are all responsible for one ano another. care and concern is so important, and we saw what happens when there is a dirth of that. so i hope that we all just go home tonight and everybody that s reading these articles and hearing this message and you choose love with your kids because you can, realize that you have a choice and your choice is love. so the big question now, what are the chances that jesse lewis s parents will actually see all of the compensation awarded by the jury yesterday.