as chuck points out, that makes life more difficult for a trial judge. but i think at the end of the day what matters is you get two bites of the apple. i just don t see how he survives all of these cases, donald trump, because each one he s played russian roulette with the law, and i just don t think he s going to make it through the next year. michael, donald trump at 4:00 p.m. tomorrow, i want to ask you to give some perspective to at that moment. this is an arraignment of a former president and his third indictment. i can t think of a historic parallel because there is none. sometimes there s not. and in this case here is the
some went along for the ride for too long. this case and moment in history where, again, the power of this document is that it is effectively authored by the voices of republicans, people alongside donald trump who stood up to him. maybe not enough in the years preceding that. he knew because the people around him told him he lost the election, but he went ahead anyway and tried to overturn it. like andrew weissmann said before, two things jumped out at me. one, how desperate donald trump was to try anything and everything he could to seize power after he lost the election. but the second was, and i didn t know what to expect reading this, going through the 45 pages a follow-up on what mike said, one republican officeholder after another republican officeholder, one republican judge after another republican
who are around donald trump leading up to january 6th telling him there was no evidence of election fraud, but he refused to give up the big lie, and his actions have led to this point, a third indictment facing three conspiracy charges, an account of attempting to obstruct an official proceeding in a desperate attempt to stay in power. willie, last hour i read through all of the republicans that testified here, that gave all the information that jack smith basically put together in this indictment, the most historic indictment in the history of this republic most likely, but the defendant s vice president, senior leaders of the justice department, director of national intelligence, director of cyber security agency calling the most secure in history,
plus, more on the judge who has been assigned to the case and her history of handing down stiff penalties to dozens of alleged january 6th rioters. also ahead how trump s 2024 campaign is already trying to profit off this new indictment and what it means for the gop primary race. you re watching morning joe. we ll be right back. ack. the day after, eastman i don t know why he called me, or texted me wanting to talk to me, said he couldn t reach others. and he started to ask me about something dealing with georgia and preserving something potentially for appeal. and i said to him, are you out of your mind.
it s clear the law is not at issue. these are charges that in the main have all been brought before with respect to what has been termed the foot soldiers, the blue collar part of the case. this is now going after the ringleader alleged to have orchestrated this plot. so this is completely following the rule of law, and i agree with the comment that this is really not going to be a trial of donald trump where the facts and law are clear. it s really a question for whether the country is going to believe in the rule of law and insist on it at the ballot box. and the thing that did surprise me was the six unnamed co-conspirators, it seems very clear to me that they are going to be charged if they have not been charged already under seal,