until charging donald j trump with felony violations, to national security laws, as well as participating and a conspiracy to obstruct justice. the united states of america versus donald j trump. we have one set of laws in this country. and they apply to everyone. tonight, the stunning 49 -page indictment. 37 criminal counts. secret national security documents. strewn around his country club, onstage in a ball room. on the floor in the bathroom. a conspiracy to hide them from the feds. the lies he told to cover it up. rachel maddow, lawrence o donnell, ari melber, joy-ann reid, alex wagner, andrew weissmann, and jen psaki are here on msnbc s special coverage of the second indictment of donald trump. good evening from new york. welcome back to our special coverage. i m chris hayes here at 30 rock with the whole team. as well as the great and the good rachel maddow who is joining us remotely on this historic day. and unprecedented, is an understatement. 37 count i
i need the mirror. with their father at the site, they arrive on the tarmac. greeted by those who led the brave operation calling the children the bravest one. small testimonies to the power of survival and hope. marissa power, and d.c. news. remember they were living off of what they can find in the forest, yasmin, there in the hospital they will be there for several weeks because it will take time for them to get back to where they were before 40 days ago. but remember the most important part here is that they re healthy and alive. wow, wow, wow. amazing, thank you. we ve got a lot more coming up folks are watching msnbc. our second hour starts right now. hey everyone i m yasmin vossoughian. if you re just joining us welcome and if you re sticking with us we re thankful for that. 48 hours from now i m gonna be on the ground in miami as the former president is scheduled to be arraigned on charges related to the classified documents case. this hour all speak to form
here is what donald trump s criminal defense lawyer, james trusty, said on television tonight. this is not publicly accurate because i m not looking at a charging document, i am looking at a summary sheet. so there s ones that might actually be reflecting on single counts too. but i think there was a conspiracy count as well. that means that there could be other indictments, have you been told that anyone else is indicted here? we weren t in fisa of anyone else being indicted. and i have a theory that some of the outrageous misconduct has affected in some other case. potential target. but bottom line is all we know about is our client. donald trump has been ordered to surrender for arrest processing and arraignment in federal court in miami on tuesday at three pm. this is how we got to hear. four months after donald trump left the white house, the national archives sent a letter to the national archives on may 6th, 2021. asking politely for the return of documents tha
the breaking news of this historic and quite frankly damning indictment released to the public today. laying out the special counsel s case against donald trump and his gross mishandling of classified documents. given that this is the first time such actions are being taken against a former president, the special counsel made sure he came prepared with the receipts. and they could not be any more incriminating. in all, the special counsel is charging trump with 37 counts. 31 of them have to do with trump s willful retention of national defense information. otherwise known as the espionage act. these are charges related to false statements, conspiracy to obstruct justice, withholding and corruptly concealing documents, as well as scheming to conceal. included in some of the charges is one of trump s closest aides, walt nada, who was also indicted. also today, we heard for the tir time from the man leading the special counsel investigation, jack smith. our laws that protect n
new details about what fighter pilots did to get the attention of an unresponsive pilot for his private jet crashed in virginia. new information just in about when the trouble began. we begin with exclusive new reporting on a previously unreported episode in the mar-a-lago documents case. it comes as attorneys for the former president met today with justice department officials and signed signs increasingly indicate that special counsel jack smith s probe could be in its final stage. cnn s kaitlan collins is here with more. so, walk us through this exclusive reporting about mar-a-lago. it s a bit of a bizarre story, so bear with me. it was in last october, we are told that this maintenance worker at mar-a-lago drained april. and when they joined the pool, it caused a flood that flooded this room. we are told it has the computer servers, which store the surveillance footage on them. that s important because we know prosecutors have been looking at the surveillance footage