warming our democratic institutions. then buckle up, new indications that the probe into trump s efforts to overturn the georgia election result is expanding. and a smear campaign falls apart in realtime. the republican party s efforts to paint president biden as corrupt are facing new skepticism, guess from who, republicans. i m ayman mohyeldin, let s get started donald trump s second indictment has reinforced republican devotion to the twice impeached and now twice indicted ex president. because that s what always happens when trump find himself in trouble. the opposite of what would happen for a normal politician little britain or mull person. just like the access hollywood tape, the first impeachment, the january 6th insurrection. the second impeachment and the earlier indictment trump s second indictment all were bound to bring the gop even closer to him. as msnbc columnist ruth ben-ghiat laid out for us on the indictment special for republicans, this unending loyalty
and fingerprinted a federal court appearance captured by a sketch artist. you re seeing one such example. these moments you re looking at here are that which donald trump has blatantly tried to overshadow with this is own series of events and speeches and recent pr programming. well, we can all see how this case is different right now. the early reporting is focused on how it will follow a traditional trajectory. the new york times puts it that way. next up we have a date for trump codefendant walt nauta to enter his plea, june 27th. and then traditionally, the status conference hearings that you would see over a course of couple months, the government supplying evidence to the defense. and that material can then inform the defense lawyers strategies. trump s lawyers may try a kind of more serious investigation of this odd defense that trump has been publicly mounted that the de the classified documents he says were secretly or magically declassified before he left offic
again i m stephanie ruhle. alongside my partner ali velshi, covering our breaking coverage of this historic friday as the government has unsealed and estimating devastating 37 count and i meant against former president donald j trump. also the leading tender for the presidential nomination for the republicans. he s accused of mishandling documents and blocking efforts to get them back for mar-a-lago. the charges against him included violating the espionage act, improperly retaining national defense information. within the indictment, photos of what the government says are boxes containing classified material. onstage at mar-a-lago, in the ballroom, stacked to the ceiling in a bathroom. let s take a look at that. there s a toilet or. they re in a bathroom, classified government documents, piled up inside a storage room and spilling out across the floor in another room. today, for the very first time, we heard from the special counsel himself, who has spent some six months
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.
because the progress happens in small steps, what it s happening. in palpable ways. this evening was interesting, the speech by president biden, they address from the white house, i thought what was interesting about it was it s quiet, normalcy. the idea that there are as a lack of superlatives, there s punditry all over the place. twitter is not, i mean it could be a tree falling in the woods. the president of the united states given important address and it s okay. and it said nice things about republicans, and nobody said their hair on fire. you pointed out that even in the obama days, it would ve been hard pressed to pay a compliment to the speaker of the house. and that s what joe biden did tonight. it was the normalcy that the part of amazing me today. it was paid by the, and welcoming refreshing change for a lot of people. yes, have a good night, see you next week. you two ali! think about this, do you remember where you are the first time you heard about