the united states of america, versus donald j trump. we have one set of laws in this country. and they apply to everyone. , tonight the stunning 49-page indictment. 37 criminal counts, secret national security documents, strewn around his country club, on stage in a ballroom, on the floor in the bathroom. a conspiracy to hide them from the feds, and the lies that he told to cover it up. rachel maddow, lawrence o donnell, aubry melbourne, joy, read are here for msnbc s special coverage of the second indictment of donald trump. good evening from new york. welcome back to our special coverage. i m chris hayes here at 30 rock with the whole team. as well as the great and the good, rachel maddow who is joining us remotely on this historic day. and unprecedented, is an understatement. 37 count indictment against the 45th president of the united states. was unsealed today. a special counsel, jack smith, made his first public comments since his appointment by attorney general,
the united states of america versus donald j trump. we have one set of laws in this country. and they apply to everyone. tonight, the stunning 49-page indictment. 37 criminal counts. secret national security documents. strewn around his country club, onstage in a ball room. on the floor in the bathroom. a conspiracy to hide them from the feds. the lies he told to cover it up. rachel maddow, lawrence o donnell, ari melber, joy-ann reid i, alex wagner, andrew weissmann, and jen psaki are here on msnbc s special coverage of the second indictment of donald trump. good evening from new york. welcome back to our special coverage. i m chris hayes here at 30 rock with the whole team. as well as the great and the good, rachel maddow who is joining us remotely on this historic day. and unprecedented, is an understatement. 37 count indictment against the 45th president of the united states. was unsealed today. a special counsel, jack smith, made his first public comments since his
redacted. the next one, redacted. the next one, oh arsenio and. or con? i don t know what that means. then and no f o r in. no foreign. no other country is supposed to be able to see that. i don t know what or con means. maybe andrew does or jen, maybe you know from your time in the white house. the fact that the classification markings on that are so high, we are not allowed to know what the marking is. just tells you that this was not tchotchkes. this really wasn t stuff that he was taking because he want to he thought he looked cute in that picture. this is stuff where the highest levels of classification are brought to bear on stuff that has very obvious international sensitivity. the disclosure of these documents, or the handling of these documents in an inappropriate way already harms our national security by telling our allies around the world, that we can t be trusted to manage this stuff. particularly if someone likes trump gets away with us. there is so much more in the i
think one of the shocking things that has occurred to me, that i didn t pick up on when i was first reading the indictment. it was until i heard brandon ran graphic, and experienced national security prosecutor talking about this in our coverage earlier, is that the classified markings on all of these documents, really really eye-opening when you start to look at them. for example, that document that jen was just talking about. it s on page 29 of the indictment. it s number five out of the 31 documents. it is described as document dated to 2020, concerning nuclear capabilities of a foreign country. right? that s like, it s eye-popping. andrew is totally right. that s exactly the sort of thing that shouldn t be, you know, left in a bathroom. that seems like a really important thing. but then look at the markings on it. the classified markings are top secret, and then the next one, redacted. the next one, redacted. the next one, oh arsenio and. or con? i don t know what that means. then