we are continuing to follow the breaking news now in miami where for the first time, u.s. president has been arraigned on federal criminal charges. just a few hours ago, donald trump turned himself in for what is his second criminal indictment. the first, of course, having been in new york. in miami he made his first appearance in a federal court room charged by special prosecutor jack smith related to the handling of miss classified documents along with his co-conspirator for moving dozens of boxes all while being caught on video then lying about it to the fbi. at no point did trump say a word to u.s. magistrate judge john goodman. it was his lawyer who pleaded not guilty on his behalf. the only restriction, placed on trump by the judge during the brief hearing is that he is not to have any contact, specifically about the case, with any possible witnesses including nauta, who still works for trump. i guess that will be based on the honor system. the date will be set for the
he has not got a defense. he s got to put it off and put it off until he hopes he will be the next president and he can pardon himself or some other republican can drop the case and pardon him. he is simply trying to avoid accountability. it s really vital for the country, not only that justice be done but that we see it done. that s why all the emphasis that people have placed i agree with on at least having at least a live feed of the oral testimony and the arguments before the judge cannon so she can t get away with effectively turning out the lights and making this invisible. that is what we hope happens. professor laurence tribe, always valuable to talk to. you don t go anywhere, i will be back with special coverage of the indictment of donald trump. stay with us. p. stay with us
obstruction counts in that indictment. it s actually kind of hard to imagine some of those counts without him and that will be up to her whether she wants to do that, whether she allows the defense to argue some of these declassification defenses that we have heard, whether she thinks they are plausible enough to put in front of the jury. she could do things like directed a verdict. that is unusual but the most important thing, of course, is that she can control the timing and it is the defendant who has the right to a speedy trial and usually the defendant wants to have a speedy trial but it does not seem like this defendant is interested in having a speedy trial and she will have an opportunity every day to speeded up or slow it down. and he wants to wait till after the election. how worried should we be about aileen cannon? she s in your neck of the woods. how worried should we be that she s going to see this as an opportunity to become a hero to maga?
documents just by thinking about it in his mind. even though he admitted it, pro the indictment, that he didn t declassify anything. does it even matter if these documents were declassified? he had government records, he didn t give them back. for most of the counts, the count charges specifically that the material related to the national defense and that its exposure would greatly endanger the defense of the united states, whether they were marked classified or not. that s a complete red herring. it has nothing to do with it. but in any event, he admitted the indictment makes clear that he admitted that he knows he has no houdini power to just think the classification away for those documents that are classified. so that also is a non-defense defense. that is why he wants delay. when the rubber meets the road,
we are continuing to follow the breaking news now in miami where for the first time, u.s. president has been arraigned on federal criminal charges. just a few hours ago, donald trump turned himself in for what is his second criminal indictment. the first, of course, having been in new york. in miami he made his first appearance in a federal court room charged by special prosecutor jack smith related to the handling of miss classified documents along with his co-conspirator for moving dozens of boxes all while being caught on video then lying about it to the fbi.