we go to new jersey with more of the former president s message. nate, good evening. trace, good evening to you. his first public remarks, or at least his first speech since his arraignment in miami this afternoon, former president trump defended his right to retain classified information. he said it is in the sole discretion of the president to keep their own documents, and he also took sharp aim at president joe biden for what he calls weaponizing the department of justice. listen here. this day will go down in infamy and joe biden will forever be remembered as not only the most corrupt president in the history of our country, but perhaps even more importantly, the president who together with a band of his closest thugs, misfits and marxists tried to destroy american democracy. but they will fail and we will win bigger and better than ever before. [applause]. charging a former president of the united states under the espionage act of 1917. trace, president trump then
our country. maybe if you just oppose the republican party and you never want it to win another election, you are cool with that. but we will go deeper. that s coming up later tonight. i will explain more. i wanted to tell you off top, it s special. i hope you will stick around for it. the top story right now, it relates to the accountability crisis on the far right and another chunk of the gop as long as it s tied to donald trump. it involves, of course, all the different ways that there are boundaries in american life. others may wish they weren t held accountable this way. it is the lies that hurt donald trump and the lies that caused the insurrection and the lies that george santos was peddling that are getting smacked down in court. today, congressman santos dodging criminal prosecution in brazil after surrendering to authorities this week in new york. he pled not guilty on those 13 counts. he is claiming it s a witch hunt. that was new york on wednesday. now he confesse
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crime. legally this case appears to be the weakest of the cases trump may be facing, but the indictment has not been read or witnesses not heard and evidence not been examined. or cross examined. what we know is that trump s prosecutor opened his tenure in office by announcing all of the laws he would not enforce, those he would ignore, ignores the law gives others long distances to ignore the fact. when you ignore the law and the facts, you don t have a justice system, ours appears teetering on brink of being another political tool to protect friends and punish foes, wh that is opposite of a real justice system, we don t prosecutor lock people up based on the chance of a crowd or political wims of a progressive prosecutor. or at least we should not. joining us now two men who care about the justice system, they used 2, in it, former prosecutors an an andy mccarthy, what are you expecting when the indictment is made public? i think based on the reporting that we ve seen