we are grate. . the beat with ari melber starts right now. see you tuesday. i m ari melber, we begin with the breaking news. we start the new week with the federal defendant, donald trump, back in florida. this is the eve of his federal arraignment tomorrow, and he made the trip from new jersey preparing to voluntarily surrender into federal custody for the first time as a defendant. that is the consequence of the indictment unsealed and briefly explained by jack smith on friday. the former president indicted for breaking several laws including the espionage act and laws relating to obstruction of justice. trump is current still seeking what he needs legally, the required local counsel, amidst reports that many are balking at him as a quote nightmare client. now, sooner or later, you can find a lawyer there that s not going to be a hangup forever, but it is a striking piece of legal reality for donald trump here on the eve of that arraignment. he spent the weekend out o
side of the screen, a motorcade escort of the indicted twice impeached ex-president donald trump. he is on route from his airport which landed at laguardia to manhattan to his apartment in trump tower. he will reportedly stay the night there ahead of his history making arrangement in the alleged hush money scheme. tomorrow there are a lot of open questions, a lot of vital considerations being made. even at this late hour first, security. as you might well imagine, the nypd is well aware of the possibility, the potential for violence tomorrow somewhere. as trump has previously called on his supporters to protest in a statement to nbc news, the nypd reveals this, quote, officers have been placed on alert and the department remains ready to respond as needed they add this, quote, there are no current credible threats to new york city. ahead of the big day tomorrow, we re on the lookout for any specifics related to the actual charges that trump now faces sources telling nbc news
There was substantial evidence of criminal intent by the president , in his view. Were going to see bob mueller walk out and were going to be watching for is he alone, is mr. Barr behind him or in the room, what are the first words that bob mueller wants to publicly utter . A man who is reticent, sometimes to a fault his supporters say. He clearly has something to say. Does he in any way elude to or cite what we know to be major disagreements with mr. Barr about what mueller found in his investigation and about evidence about sitting the president. Here we have for the first time publicly in more than two years Robert Mueller. Thank you for being here. Two years ago the Acting Attorney General asked me to sv as Special Counsel. And he created the special
counsels office. The appointed directed the office to investigate russian interference in the 2016 president ial election. This included investigating any links or coordination between the russian government and individuals associated
target, but if not, then they will ordinarily move to indicting the target. let me finish with this, i was most interested to see when the florida indictment was unsealed, that there was only one charged co-conspirator, walt nauta. that could only mean one of two things. either walt nauta is the only one facilitating and assisting and aiding and abetting in donald trump s documents crimes, his obstruction crimes, or there are plenty of others who were assisting and facilitating, but they ve already struck guilty plea and cooperation agreements which are under seal and we won t learn about them until we get closer to the trial date. mike, let me ask you a quick question. i remember reporting at the time that the government knew walt nauta was lying at the time and some reporting soon after that kash patel had a limited immunity. we know that the government knows who they ve talked to. trump ostensibly knows because
talk about new crimes, and one of those crimes has now been indicted here. that s what s different this week as opposed to the middle of last week. the doj has indicted trump and his aide for obstruction crimes and the lawyer bowed out of the conspiracy to be a part of those crimes. that s why the lawyer is not charged in this new indictment. we know trump pushed the lawyer to hide secret documents. we know according to the doj, trump lied to the lawyer and the government. that s explained in the filing with the reference to trump attorney 1, which we hear at msnbc have identified as very likely corcoran, and that he will be a key witness. it is corcoran s notes that bust trump for those things that we were all frantically reading to you on friday saying things like i don t want anybody looking through my boxes, i really don t. i don t want you looking through my boxes. trump said, what happens if we just don t respond at all, or just don t play ball with him.