former president trump hello, thank you, it s me, hi, i m the problem. it s me. well, folks, it happened i got indicted or as i spell it, indicated. frankly, it s time i come clean, i broke the law and go quietly to prison. april fool s. saturday night live s cold open and their take on donald trump s legal troubles the former president will be in court tomorrow for a historic arraignment. we ll take you to the time line and also the security concerns outside the manhattan courthouse meanwhile, the indictment has been a big moneymaker for his 2024 campaign, with millions of dollars in donations, and just a matter of days, it comes as a new challenger is getting into the presidential race and calling trump to drop out. good morning, and welcome to morning joe, it is monday, april 3rd. with us, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. congressional investigations reporter for the washington post. jackie alemany atto
the reason why trump will have a strangle hold, i think, on this nomination process. so interesting. we have a lot more to talk about pertaining to this, of course, it s going to happen tomorrow, but we are looking at security and preparations for that. also trump s own words ginning up support and action for him. and also the fundraising off of this which has been quite successful we ll have that coming up. there s another big story breaking over the weekend. the justice department and fbi investigators have accumulated fresh evidence pointing to possible obstruction by former president donald trump in the investigation into top secret documents found at mar-a-lago. people familiar with the matter tell the washington post. according to the post, the additional evidence comes as investigators have used e-mails, text messages from a former trump aide to help understand key moments last year the post
records found at trump s florida home and private club. in a statement to the paper, a trump spokesperson wrote in part that the investigation has no basis in fact or law, and, joe, i have seen trump interviewed. it s laughable, it s not funny, i have a right to take stuff it s just in his mind, he doesn t apply the law to himself. he said if he even thought about it, if he thought about it, he could declassify documents with his superpowers as former president. jackie alemany, you look at the washington post report, and suddenly, you realize they ve got e-mails, correspondence, they have somebody on the inside that s been cooperating, it seems, with the federal government, and it looks, at least, from this story, like, jack smith.
itinerary. he can probably use to his political advantage. it s an old case, the others on the horizon loom to be far more serious, we know the january 6th probe continues, and then there s mar-a-lago and we have certainly republicans trying to say, look, joe biden was vice president, and he had classified documents he shouldn t have or mike pence did too. okay, that s true. but it s all about intent and cooperation. and both of those men, biden and pence, as soon as these first of all, there s no suggestion these documents were taken deliberately, and once they were discovered, they cooperated with doj in returning them. trump has done the opposite. there is a sense here that he was involved in packing some of these or at least saying i would like to have items with me at mar-a-lago, and certainly as this reporting points out, he has taken many steps to obstruct it and deny returning them andrew weissmann, let s talk about the legal aspect we can set aside the politics,
continues. federal investigators have gathered new and significant evidence that after the subpoena was delivered, trump looked through the contents of some of the boxes of documents in his home, apparently out of a desire to keep certain things in his possession investigators now suspect based on witness statements, security camera footage, and other documentary evidence that boxes included classified material were removed from a mar-a-lago storage area after the subpoena was served and that trump personally examined at least some of those boxes. the new details highlight the degree in which special counsel jack smith s investigation is focusing on whether the former president took or directed actions to impede government efforts for the sensitive