his mar-a-lago resort. we ll go through the charges and what s next in the case. plus, this indictment from a florida grand jury is significant when it comes to a venue for a potential trial. we ll explain why. and we ll have the reaction from trump s republican rivals in the 2024 presidential race. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, june 9th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. nbc news can confirm that former president donald trump has been indicted by a grand jury in florida in connection with special counsel jack smith s investigation into his handling of more than 100 classified documents discovered last year at his mar-a-lago resort in palm beach, florida. two sources familiar with the matter confirmed the indictment. one adding that trump received a summons to appear in u.s. district court on tuesday. this is the first time in american history that a former u.s. president will face federal charges. the sources say that
our country is going to hell, and they come after donald trump. in all of my years of public life, i have never obstructed justice and i think too that i can say that in my years of public life, that i welcome this kind of examination. they re trying to destroy our reputation so they can win an election. that s just as bad as doing any of the other things that have been done over the last number of years and especially during the 2020 election. people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook, well, i m not a crook. i ve earned everything i ve got. so i just want to tell you i m an innocent man. i did nothing wrong. donald trump and richard nixon each proclaiming innocence 50 years apart. nixon was never federally indicted. donald trump was just indicted on seven charges. we ll go through what we know about the federal charges and what happens next in the case. plus, we ll explain why this indictment from a florida grand jury is significant when it
our country is going to hell, and they come after donald trump. in all of my years of public life, i have never obstructed justice and i think too that i can say that in my years of public life, that i welcome this kind of examination. they re trying to destroy our reputation so they can win an election. that s just as bad as doing any of the other things that have been done over the last number of years and especially during the 2020 election. people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook, well, i m not a crook. i ve earned everything i ve got. so i just want to tell you i m an innocent man. i did nothing wrong. donald trump and richard nixon each proclaiming innocence 50 years apart. nixon was never federally indicted. donald trump was just indicted on seven charges. we ll go through what we know about the federal charges and what happens next in the case.
con 2ke78ing this indictment. yes, they re allies but seen by many to be a nod towards the far right. senior politics reporter for axios eugene scott, thanks for joining us. have a good weekend. it is going to be an important and newsworthy moment, the first time ever a former president has been indicted on a federal charge and, of course, for donald j. trump also indicted on a state charge. legal peril mounting as 2024 years. thank you so much for getting up way too early with us on this friday morning. morning joe starts right now. i want to say this to the audience, i made my mistakes but in all of my years of public life, i have never profited, never profited from public service. i ve earned every cent. this is warfare for the law and we can t let it happen. we can t let it happen.
of my years of public life, i have never profited, never profited from public service. i earned every cent. in all of my careers in public life, i have never obstructed justice, and i think, too, that i can say, that in my years of public life, that i welcome this kind of examination, because people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. well, i m not a crook. i ve earned everything i ve got. the crux of nixon s tax scandal was that when he left the white house after being eisenhower s vice president, he took all of his vice presidential records with him. nixon then donated those records back to the national archives, year after year, so he could write the donations off of his income taxes for a grand total somewhere in the ballpark of $500,000. as much as we all associate nixon with watergate, his tax scandal was a huge deal at the time. it was so big that it basically forced 96 ton release some of