had pennies to his name, an estimated one million of them. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, and welcome on this monday night. donald trump is back in south florida on the eve of his second criminal court hearing in just over two months. the ex-president traveling from his new jersey resort to miami ahead of his scheduled appearance there tomorrow before a federal magistrate, this time indicted by a grand jury on charges related to more than 100 secret government documents discovered in his mar-a-lago estate after he was out of office. the 37 counts against him, following a special counsel investigation, include the retention of national defense information, conspiracy to obstruct justice, and a scheme to conceal. mr. trump denying the charges and portraying himself as the victim of politics run amuck, a claim quickly adopted by many of his republican
minorities to become lawyers, that is insulting and no good to anybody. again, this is woke mind run amuck. i m writing a book that will be out from harper collins. these trends in legal education and more broadly do not bode well. i think there is a backlash, these changes aren ts supposed to go into effect. this is a shocking story. todd: ilya shap iro from the manhattan institute. todd: basketball fan, miami heat beat the celtics, they didn t just beats them, they whipped them last night.
destroying itself, and that snowball is moving down the hill at a faster and faster pace. this morning, it grew exponentially. i think that s right. i was listening to jon, you know, talking about the connection between all these issues and the through line. the through line is that, on the right, it s the run amuck. they ve decided with their super majorities, their power, their wins, they ll push everything to the most extreme element of course, that s not where the american people are. abortion, it is a complicated issue. the american americans, you know, both pro choice and pro life, generally have nuanced views about it i think they re ignoring that right now by pushing for these sorts of things. yeah, i agree with you, that you add up a number of the events
just pointing at sort of the basic the obvious. right, she s asking in a reasonable way. the republicans in that trumped up committee are literally trumped up, are not sasking in reasonable way. the questions are made in utterly bad faith, they re about the past and not the future. this is a talking point that has run amuck. they re mad somehow that it didn t take off, it didn t do what they had hoped it would do for the trump campaign to sort of neutralize his first impeachment or sort of make it seem like everybody down here does this. it s the past. i mean, american families, i think the president is exactly right about this. they re concerned about getting new sneakers for their kid. they re thinking about their next promotion. they want their kids to go to college. they want to buy a house that they can afford. they are absolutely not concerned about a talking point from the 2020 election. and that said, i do think there are super reasonable thoughtful questions about what
alameda group to buy property and give political donations. there s also an element of incompetence. that s where the sec comes in who has now filed a civil action that says there were no controls on this institution, this was utterly irresponsible and has run amuck. sam bankman-fried has two problems, the criminal one being the bigger one. the hearing in nassau, we heard he s not going to fight this expedition hearing. what does all that mean? an interesting dance around expedition. when someone wanted in the united states gets arrested in another country we do have a treaty with the bahamas, so he s capable of being sent back here. you can either agree to expedition or fight it. it looks like sam bankman-fried is going to fight it. you have to show the indictment is defective. that means he may now have a series of hearings in bahamas. i ve had expedition fights that have taken years not to say