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
still looking at, and the georgia district attorney is still looking at, that s also, this starts to get less abstract and more tangible. starts to get les abstract and more tangible absolutely, and you know it will always be in the details here, and there s only so much that the department of justice can say a number of the documents here are likely still classified and not ones that can see the public eye one of the things that i think though that would be incredibly damaging to donald trump s if the intelligence embedded in these documents is as paragraph three of the indictment says, implicates the united states national the united states nuclear secrets. that s not something to take lightly. this is a person who consistently put his own interests above the national authority of this country, and we re not talking about it in an abstract way, we re talking about documents that only are
the spirit of 76, who was prosecuted because the government believes that the film undermined the united kingdom. u.s. ally in the war, and was therefore considered seditious. under woodrow was so, the thousand more s were prosecuted under the espionage act for legitimate pulisic low speech, like eugene debs, a socialist leader who gave a riling speech to a crowd about 1200 people. in it, he spoke out against war, saying, quote, if war is right, let it be declared by the people. you, who have lost your lives to lose. that speech landed eugene debs in prison, charged with ten counts of violating the espn adage and sedition acts. the prosecution claimed that his speech was, quote, calculated to support insubordination and propagate obstruction into the draft. dubs was sentenced to ten years in prison, and less than you two years into his sentence, eugene debs when the socialist party s nomination for the presidency, for the presidency, for a federal present tense jury in georgia. steps,
accountable for anything, is evidence of persecution and, as he likes to say, they re not coming after you, they re not coming after me, i m just in the way. , so you can expect that his core support, that 35% give or take of the republican primary voter base, it s not going anywhere. even after what most legal experts would say is a devastating set of facts revealed in this indictment. now, does that support help him in a general election? not so much. it will get him to 35% or 40%, but it s not clear that gets him over the 50% he needs in key states to win the presidency again. and there s been a number of recent polls that have shown that more indictments against him, federal impossibly in georgia, will cause his support in the general election to take a significant hits, but in the primary, i don t think that s this hurts him, in this bizarre