mr. trump s fingerprinted through a digital figure consistent, but his mugshot, they used an existing photo. special counsel watches from the front row as the ex president pleads not guilty. for donald trump, america had never before had a president twice impeached. america had never before had an ex president indicted, let alone twice indicted. today, on the day of his federal harassed, america starts yet another new chapter. joy reid, nicole wallace, chris haines, lawrence o donnell, already melber, alex wagner, stephanie ruhle, jen psaki, plus our legal experts and reporters, all here for msnbc s special coverage of the first federal criminal indictment of a former u.s. president. good evening, and thank you for being with us for our special primetime coverage, of a day that will go down in american history as unimaginable, inconceivable, unthinkable, and also equally hey, what took you so long? i am rachel maddow here at msnbc headquarters with joy reid, chris area
the government that he wants donald trump arrested again. advised of his right, again. and booked, this time, on 37 federal felony counts. mr. trump was fingerprinted through a digital figure consistent, but for his mugshot, they used an existing photo. special counsel watches from the front row as the ex president pleads not guilty. for donald trump, america had never before had a president twice impeached. america had never before had an ex president indicted, let alone twice indicted. today, on the day of his federal harassed, america starts yet another new chapter. joy reid, nicolle wallace, chris hayes, lawrence o donnell, ali melber, alex wagner, stephanie ruhle, jen psaki, plus our legal experts and reporters, all here for msnbc s special coverage of the first federal criminal indictment of a former u.s. president. good evening, and thank you for being with us for our special primetime coverage, of a day that will go down in american history as unimaginable,
day that will go down in american history as unimaginable, inconceivable, unthinkable, and also equally, hey, what took you so long? i am rachel maddow here at msnbc headquarters with joy reid, chris hayes, ari melber. we are gonna be joining you with special coverage by lawrence or diana o donnell, stephanie ruhle, alex wagner, jen psaki, plus all the legal experts and reporters we ve come to depend on so much for our coverage of this still unfolding fairly epic story. by now we all know the basics of what is going on. what s an indictment? well, that s the prosecution laying out its charges against a defendant. that happened last week. when the public got our first view of the unsealed federal indictment of former president trump on friday. 37 federal felony counts. 31 of them under the espionage act. what s an arraignment? that s what happened today. the defendant is brought to court and essentially introduced into the legal system as a defendant. for most, that means the
that it has concerns about trump communicating with and trump, subject to that list, may not communicate with those people and it s facts of the case. that, of course, necessitates a question, who is going to catch them, and is this really an order? and that remains to be seen. the department of justice had 13 lawyers in court today. they re certainly not for lack of resources in this instance. lisa, let s make sure that i understand the terms of the way this went and he was asking for what another magistrate judge decided a, was there anything the department of justice, prosecutors asked for today the judge said no to? absolutely not. in fact, the judge, of his own volition is the one who raised the concern about trump communicating with other people. the department of justice appeared to be very happy to go really easy on donald trump as a defendant in terms of the condition of his release. it s magistrate judge john goodman who was the one who had concerns. that s not unusual.
trump communicating with and trump, subject to that list, may not communicate with those people and it s facts of the case. that, of course, necessitates a question, who is going to catch them, and is this really an order? and that remains to be seen. the department of justice had 13 lawyers in court today. they re certainly not for lack of resources in this instance. lisa, let s make sure that i understand the terms of the way this went and he was asking for what another magistrate judge decided a, was there anything the department of justice, prosecutors asked for today the judge said no to? absolutely not. in fact, the judge, of his own volition is the one who raised the concern about trump communicating with other people. the department of justice appeared to be very happy to go really easy on donald trump as a defendant in terms of the condition of his release. it s magistrate judge john goodman who was the one who had concerns. that s not unusual. in fact he said it s typical