hello and thank you for joining us. it is 10 a.m. eastern. i m ana cabrera with jose diaz vallart. special breaking news coverage today. for a man with a lengthy and varied history of high stakes court battles, this will be a legal saga unlike anything donald trump has encountered before. the former president has now been federally indicted on seven criminal charges related to his handling of classified documents. nbc news has confirmed one of the charges is related to the espionage act. all eyes now turn to tuesday at 3 p.m. eastern, the day before the former president s 77th birthday when we expect trump to appear in court in miami and unless information is released beforehand, that s also when we expect to get the full detailed list of charges from the special counsel s team. for his part, trump has denied any wrongdoing. they can t stop because it s election interference at the highest level. there s never been anything like what s happened. i m an innocent man. i m a
his benefit now? to susan s point, the democrats have been weaponizing the justice department and committees particularly around impeachment. heretofor that s worked for them. the challenge for donald trump or anyone who wants to support him is let me steal a phrase from the washington post. breadth and simplicity of this case suggesting that all of what we know about the about what donald trump did, what the process has done, it suggests that it is difficult to look away from this. it s difficult to outright dismiss it. you have to pay attention to it. i imagine that the majority of his supporters are going to stay with him. but if you are an independent voter or a disenfranchised republican, how does donald trump or any one of the gop leaders rest those individuals
would result from placing russia on this list that, for instance, other countries, such as north korea and iran are on right now? so, it would put russia in a really small category of pariah countries joining iran, north korea, syria and cuba to the state sponsor of terrorism list. it would be the symbolism behind that. every day we see the terrorism of russian federation in ukraine. it would actually have real impact. heretofor the biden administration has focused sanctions on individuals and organizations, going after the oligarchs, sanctioning putin and lavrov. this would have a significant impact because businesses that do business in russia still would face reputational risk if they continue to do business in russia. so, i think we would see more businesses flee the russian federation. very importantly, span the aperture and kind of sanctions the u.s. could deploy against russian federation. it would limit dual use exports
to keep the sources of their money secret. but it is a very complicated situation, and a case like this where you now have someone who is in the position of being acting attorney general, and we will see how the courts deal with that, who has an enormous amount of powers who may be, and we have financial disclosure rules and precisely to help us protect ourselves gaiagainst conflicts like this, but we don t know who the potential conflict is with. what is the interest that funded this heretofor and not terribly protected group and gave him so much money than he had gotten previously, and that is another layer of concern on top of the additional layers of concern both from the acting attorney general and the president s behavior. well, that must have come up in the confirmation when he was confirmed for whatever post he previously held?
win for mueller and zero for team trump. your perspective on what we saw if court today. so lawrence, i think it s a hugely consequential turn of events for both the mueller investigation and for the president and his administration. when i got ahold of a copy of the flee agreement in the manafort case earlier today, i was looking for one phrase, i found it page 2, paragraph 3. let me read the legalese and talk about what it means. it says no other charges will be brought against the defendant, paul microsoft, for his heretofor disclosed participation in activity. in layman s terms what that means is the following, when we meet with a defendant who is a conspearing cooperating witness, we interview them over and over and over again, we frankly try