opportunity to rethink a bill they had a veto proof majority. on y to another conversation with phillip atiba goff about minneapolis. an interesting point, if you worried about police forces that are bad in america, minneapolis doesn t top the top 50. doesn t crack the top 50. but he said if you go three consecutive degrees at a, time which is kind of roughly the average these days, there are very few under the trump administration at all because the trump administration simply didn t believe in that sort of thing. it s gonna take us decades or millennia to figure this out. he was right in saying it s better than not having them, but it s a slow process. and blew the technical term is drop in a bucket, but that doesn t mean it s not worth talking about. one of the things that make minneapolis interesting though is that the fundamental problem on that police force was the union chief, and that is the case in many american police forces. the police chief, the george floyd,
interference. they re trying to destroy a reputationsy they can win an election. i did nothing wrong and will fight this out just like we ve been fighting for seven years. i m innocent, and we ll prove that very, very soundly. fact check. when the former president is saying the word they he is referring to democrats. democrats did not indict the president. president joe biden did not indict donald trump. it was a grand jury based in florida. that is it. we should also note trump has already pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records here in new york. we ve got a lot to cover so let s start off with our panel this evening. peter baker, katie bennett, former u.s. attorney joyce vance who spent 25 years as a federal prosecutor, charles coleman, former new york prosecutor and civil rights attorney, anthony former justice spokesperson under attorney merrick garland, and frank figliuzzi, former fbi director for counter intelligence. as i look at you all, h
i m stephanie ruhle. we continue our breaking news coverage on this historic night. nbc news has confirmed, donald trump, the nation s 45th president, has been indicted on seven charges in connection with his mishandling of classified documents. let that sink in for a moment. we ve been talking about it for months but here it is. for the first time in u.s. history,, a former president federal charges trump has received a summons to appear in u.s. district court on june 13th. that is this coming tuesday. the indictment remains under seal. sources tell nbc news. the charges include conspiracy to obstruct. and the new york times reports, the charges also include, quote, willfully retaining national defense secrets in violation of the espionage act. according to people familiar with the matter. the charges, of course, come after a lengthy investigation, led by justice department special counsel, jack smith. tonight, donald trump responded on his social media platform. watch this.
bell rings. bell rings. bell tolls. bells peal. bells peal. the bells tolling in memory of the dead. this is an incident which has deeply, deeply shocked this country. as well as those who died, people are thinking about the people who were injured, a number of those are still in hospital, some with serious injuries. we know that many of the casualties were cheque, three czech. czech. details have been emerging about the identities of some of the victims, one of them was the director of the institute of musicology at the university. she was 49 years old, she was the mother of two children. the institute put out a statement saying that this was an extremely cruel time for us all. meanwhile, the police investigations are continuing, people here continuing to ask themselves what it was that could have driven this 24 year old gunman to behave in this way. this is a very sad moment coming as it doesjust before is a very sad moment coming as it does just before christmas, a time
we begin with breaking news, florida governor ron desantis announcing on twitter that he is running for president. but the live stream events with elon musk do not go according to plan. it was plagued with technical problems and delayed for nearly 30 minutes. if you tuned in when it was supposed to start you would ve heard silence, and then after about 12 minutes of that, you would have heard this. so, let s see. keeps crashing, ha? i think we ve got a massive number of people online. so services are straining. that was elon musk saying that the servers are straining somewhat. then there was silence again. the former president is already mocking the governor s debut. still a statesman thing i m comparable silences, glitches, a complete failure to launch, and that s just the candidate. jessica dean joins us now from miami. last night of the program we talked about how a live event on twitter with elon musk could either be compelling or a train wreck. it certainly start