people. this is now the second indictment that trump is facing since he went in office after manhattan prosecutors charged with 34 felony counts earlier this year over alleged hush money payments. and a post on his truth announcing the indictment, trump wrote the correct biden administration has informed by attorneys that i ve been indicted. i am an innocent man. tonight, trump posted a formative video repeatedly claiming that investigation is a hoax. politically motivated. they can t stop because its election interference at the highest level there is never been anything like what has happened, they figured that the way that they would stop us is by using what is called that s what this is. it s wolf warfare for the law. it s called election interference. they re trying to destroy the reputation. and they can try to win the election. joining us now is msnbc colleagues, ari melber and lawrence o donnell, also with us is laura jarrett, nbc news senior legal corresponde
to the teflon don. josh marshall hugo lowell and andrew weissmann. appreciate it. that s all in alex on this thursday night. wagner tonight starts right now, good evening, alex. chris, what a thursday. accountability, i think that is the phrase of the day. accountability. yes. again, lots of things it seemed here to for unthinkable, becoming think-able as the other theme of the last few years. in some, ways unthinkable to donald trump. as much as he knew this was coming, now that it s happened, he s in a different league. he has made history, not the kind of history that i think you want to make. thank, you my friend, as always. you bet. thank you to you at home for joining us this evening. nbc news can now report that former president donald trump has been indicted in the special counsel s investigation into his alleged mishandling of classified documents. the indictment was filed in federal district court in miami. trump has been summoned to appear in federal
on january 7th. the city of memphis reacting today to the big announcement that the police scorpion unit the, one that is involved in the deadly beating, would be disbanded. here s what shelby county district attorney stephen mulroy told me in the last hour. i have heard that a number of citizens making complaints about the scorpion unit. i know that units of that kind sometimes can both in memphis and around the country sometimes breed a culture of over aggressiveness. i think it s probably a healthy thing of the units that disbanded. also new today. city officials cleaning up the discrepancy between the number of officers on the scene of the meeting. and the number body camera videos released. officials telling abc news some police body cameras were turned off during the beating and nichols. that when police first of nicholas, one of the three officers involved did not activate his camera. another turned it on but the camera fell off immediately. only two officers
backstop of juries, and if you give juries something in my experience, and there are exceptions, but generally, something that has a really strong, clear, factual pattern, they usually go with it. if they come up with something less than that, they will stand up to it. that is what happened to these they have every right to make these claims, report on, them some of our folks, we had matt gaetz on the program to discuss these kinds of weapons nation arguments. the only thing that matters for donald trump, the only thing standing between him and a jumpsuit, and a lot of prison time, is a trial and jury. it is not kevin mccarthy s op-eds, it s not something coming around three years later to try to re-rack and redo another fast and furious, but it s the same plot, which is want want, durham couldn t prove anything, and he couldn t win the low level cases that he brought. by the, way those cases are not against mueller or biden, it is just other stuff that he could not win. yes, we ha
exceptions, but generally, something that has a really strong, clear, factual pattern, they usually go with it. if they come up with something less than that, they will stand up to it. that is what happened to these they have every right to make these claims, report on, them some of our folks, we had matt gaetz on the program to discuss these kinds of weapons nation arguments. the only thing that matters for donald trump, the only thing standing between him and a jumpsuit, and a lot of prison time, is a trial and jury. it is not kevin mccarthy s op-eds, it s not something coming around three years later to try to re-rack and redo another fast and furious, but it s the same plot, which is want want, durham couldn t prove anything, and he couldn t win the low level cases that he brought. by the, way those cases are not against mueller or biden, it is just other stuff that he could not win. yes, we have to be consistent, but we see credible reports here, obviously we will report on, i m