his mar-a-lago resort. we ll go through the charges and what s next in the case. plus, this indictment from a florida grand jury is significant when it comes to a venue for a potential trial. we ll explain why. and we ll have the reaction from trump s republican rivals in the 2024 presidential race. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, june 9th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. nbc news can confirm that former president donald trump has been indicted by a grand jury in florida in connection with special counsel jack smith s investigation into his handling of more than 100 classified documents discovered last year at his mar-a-lago resort in palm beach, florida. two sources familiar with the matter confirmed the indictment. one adding that trump received a summons to appear in u.s. district court on tuesday. this is the first time in american history that a former u.s. president will face federal charges. the sources say that
our country is going to hell, and they come after donald trump. in all of my years of public life, i have never obstructed justice and i think too that i can say that in my years of public life, that i welcome this kind of examination. they re trying to destroy our reputation so they can win an election. that s just as bad as doing any of the other things that have been done over the last number of years and especially during the 2020 election. people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook, well, i m not a crook. i ve earned everything i ve got. so i just want to tell you i m an innocent man. i did nothing wrong. donald trump and richard nixon each proclaiming innocence 50 years apart. nixon was never federally indicted. donald trump was just indicted on seven charges. we ll go through what we know about the federal charges and what happens next in the case. plus, we ll explain why this indictment from a florida grand jury is significant when it
his mar-a-lago resort. we ll go through the charges and what s next in the case. plus, this indictment from a florida grand jury is significant when it comes to a venue for a potential trial. we ll explain why. and we ll have the reaction from trump s republican rivals in the 2024 presidential race. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, june 9th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. nbc news can confirm that former president donald trump has been indicted by a grand jury in florida in connection with special counsel jack smith s investigation into his handling of more than 100 classified documents discovered last year at his mar-a-lago resort in palm beach, florida. two sources familiar with the
plus, we ll explain why this indictment from a florida grand jury is significant when it comes to a venue for a potential trial. on capitol hill a predictable response from many republicans who are rallying around the former president blaming everyone but him for this indictment. we ll also have the reaction from trump s republican rivals in the 2024 presidential race. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is friday, june 9th, along with joe, willie and me we have former u.s. senator now an nbc news and msnbc political analyst claire mccaskill, the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire, former white house press secretary, now an msnbc host jen psaki, former u.s. attorney and senior fbi official chuck rosenberg and presidential historian mike barnicle michael beschloss.
it s my judgment that i was fired because of the russian investigation. i was fired or the endeavor was to change the way the russian investigation was being conducted. what is next for the russia probe after former fbi director james comey talks about his interaction with the president. did his testimony change anything? nice to have you with us. it s friday, june 9th. 4:00 a.m., exactly in the east folks, with james comey s blockbuster testimony in the books now, the question is what comes next in the federal investigation? how will it affect the testimony? first comey s explosive testimony, the fired fbi director laying out his conversations with president trump, in stunning detail under oath. he described with dramatic