and tonight, donald trump s criminal defense team is renewing its requests for judge tanya chutkan to hold special counsel jack smith in contempt of court. with the election interference case currently on hold while trump s immunity claims get worked out in a federal appeals court, trump s lawyers lot of activity in the case halted, even the routine filing of documents which jacks mitt s team has said is permissible because it does not require the trump team to do anything. the motion to punish a jack smith for something that he is not prohibitive from even doing is yet another example of how donald trump has always referred to live in the world of alternative facts. with that strategy, it s on a collision course with the courtroom reality. that s what we saw this week as the disgraced former presidents that up for just a few minutes, in his own defense and the new york attorney generals civil fraud trial, when trump rambled, dissembled and presented himself as usual, as a
and msnbc spent 95% of their air time covering donald trump s arraignment. think about the buildup over the weekend, too. by now you d expect the media to have learned how to cover donald trump and his family but that s the exact opposite of what happened. after the the left the courthouse, he stopped by a famous cue and cafe in miami on his way out. cnn like most networks took trump s cafe visit live. for most networks and producers, his surprise stop is a god send. after all, how exciting are plane landings, suv caravans, courtroom sketches? but not cnn. this unscripted moment where average voters, as you see right here, show affection and enthusiasm, a human side to president 45, would not be covered. they would not allow it. watch. donald trump is charged with a series of federal felonies for mishandling the most sensitive government documents that we have and for obstruction of justice along with walt nada who is charged with intentionally setting up lies for the grand
i ll be back to continue our special coverage of the indictment of donald trump, joining my colleagues alicia and then the, simone sanders hand sound, and me, at eight pm eastern for more in-depth reporting. and analysis, but first, there s still two more hours of velshi on this saturday morning. coming up next, the latest on the trump indictment. what we know, what comes next, and what effect it s going to have on the 2024 election. another hour of velshi begins, right now. good morning. saturday, june 10th. i m ali velshi. for the second time in just a little over two months, the twice impeached ex president, donald trump, has been indicted. this, time by the federal government. yesterday, jack smith made his first official public appearance as special counsel to announce the historic indictment. he also underlined why it s so important that this case moves forward. adherence to the rule of law is a bedrock principle of the department of justice. and our nation
budget committee. and congressman robert garcia of the oversight committee are here to discuss. courtroom campaign. donald trump is set to appear at two high stakes hearings this week. melissa murray comes by to discuss the possible legal and political implications with the iowa caucuses just eight days away. and hollywood s golden moment. chris witherspoon joining me with his predictions on who the big winners could be at tonight s golden globes. i m jonathan capehart and this is the sunday show. this week, congress, the least productive in decades, finally comes back in session after a holiday break. and man, they have an overflowing to do list with a bleakest prospects of getting any of it doesn t let alone on time. one of the republican-controlled house returns tuesday, it will only have eight working days before the first government shutdown deadline of january 19th. and another for working days for the second deadline on february 2nd. but there appears to
like something is going on in the news today, doesn t this remind me of something else? yes, it does, something that might seem unprecedented, like we ve never faced something like this before in the news. it turns out more often than it, it does have an antecedent in history. the very first episode dropped today. it is about something that s very much like january 6th that happened before. i would have more to say about this later on this hour. but chris is right, it s just drop. today we are super excited about it. that s all still to come, it s called rachel maddow presents deja news . all right, so, here s what it said when they finally showed what they had to the public. this was from the u.s. justice department at the time. quote, the following statement is respectfully submitted to the court by the government at the arraignment of the defendant. it constitutes a detailed resuscitation of the facts and evidence developed by the investigation to date. that presentation