people. this is now the second indictment that trump is facing since he went in office after manhattan prosecutors charged with 34 felony counts earlier this year over alleged hush money payments. and a post on his truth announcing the indictment, trump wrote the correct biden administration has informed by attorneys that i ve been indicted. i am an innocent man. tonight, trump posted a formative video repeatedly claiming that investigation is a hoax. politically motivated. they can t stop because its election interference at the highest level there is never been anything like what has happened, they figured that the way that they would stop us is by using what is called that s what this is. it s wolf warfare for the law. it s called election interference. they re trying to destroy the reputation. and they can try to win the election. joining us now is msnbc colleagues, ari melber and lawrence o donnell, also with us is laura jarrett, nbc news senior legal corresponde
to the teflon don. josh marshall hugo lowell and andrew weissmann. appreciate it. that s all in alex on this thursday night. wagner tonight starts right now, good evening, alex. chris, what a thursday. accountability, i think that is the phrase of the day. accountability. yes. again, lots of things it seemed here to for unthinkable, becoming think-able as the other theme of the last few years. in some, ways unthinkable to donald trump. as much as he knew this was coming, now that it s happened, he s in a different league. he has made history, not the kind of history that i think you want to make. thank, you my friend, as always. you bet. thank you to you at home for joining us this evening. nbc news can now report that former president donald trump has been indicted in the special counsel s investigation into his alleged mishandling of classified documents. the indictment was filed in federal district court in miami. trump has been summoned to appear in federal
Russias invasion began. Today President Biden is set to meet with the families of two americans detained in russia, paul whelan and Brittney Griner. A humanitarian crisis at the southern border, political games are being waged with human lives as we learn more about how dozens of migrants arrived in Marthas Vineyard and how the community is coming to their aid. The Boil Water Advisory in jackson, mississippi is now lifted after a water crisis lasted nearly seven weeks. But will residents drink it . And we begin this friday with major developments into the investigation of classified documents recovered from Donald Trumps maralago estate. Last night a judge in florida formally appointed new york Senior District judge Raymond Dearie to be the Special Master to review the thousands of documents seized during last months search. He was the only candidate acceptable to trump and the Justice Department. The judge also denied the departments request for continued access to roughly 100,000 i s
The Department Reports it has now recovered more than 320 classified documents from mara lago. Prosecutors essay some documents were likely concealed or removed from storage in an effort to obstruct their investigation. The court filing casts serious doubt on a statement by trumps attorneys that all classified material had been returned. The Justice Department also argues that trump lacked legal standing to request a Special Master, since the documents belonged to the government, not to him. The court filing came with this photo, showing documents taken by the fbi, from a container in trumps office. More now from cnns sarah murray. Reporter the Justice Department weighs in with its side of the story of what happened in the runup and aftermath of the search at mar alago. This is all a part of the Court Battle Playing Out over whether there should be a Special Master, an independent third party appointed to review the documents that the fbi sees when they searched maralago. The trump tea
Opposing trumps request for a Special Master to review all the materials seized by the fbi. The Department Reports it has now recovered more than 320 classified documents from maralago. Prosecutors say, some documents or likely concealed or removed from storage in an effort to obstruct their investigation. The Court Filing Cast Serious doubts on a statement by trumps attorney that all classified material had been returned. The Justice Department also argues that trump lacks legal standing to request a Special Masters, since the documents belong to the government, not to him. The court filing came with this Photo Showing documents taken by the fbi from trumps office. More now from cnns sara mine. The Justice Department weighing in with the good side of the story of whats happened in the run up and in the aftermath of the search at maralago. This is all part of the Court Battle Playing Out over whether there should be a Special Master, an independent third party appointed to review the d