justice department for pursuing charges in the first place. they have sunk back to school yard antics. whining, and what about-ing, and an echo of eight years, the phrase, but her emails has made it back into the gop s political rhetoric. which is a reference to hillary clinton s use of private email server when she was secretary of state. it was a controversial and flawed decision that the state department ultimately did say increased the risk of compromising classified information. but after multiple investigations, the episode concluded with officials finding no evidence of deliberate mishandling of classified information, and a republican appointed fbi director says no reasonable prosecutor would bring charges in the case. just like she was never found to have done anything wrong from the countless benghazi investigations. which the current speaker of the house kevin mccarthy once admitted on president were deliberately orchestrated by republicans as a political endeavor
he even scowled during his arraignment. his aide and co-defendant walt nauta appeared with him in court. nauta not entering a plea to the six counts he faces because he did not have a local attorney. let s go now to cnn anchor and chief correspondent kaitlan collins who s in miami. trump is calling this one of the saddest days in the history of the country. it is a sad day, though, i m not sure in the same way he means it. give us your take. reporter: yeah, jake, and i think what you re seeing with that comment that trump posted as he was on his way here to this courthouse for that arraignment and the many others that he has posted online also shows, you know, not just what we ve been talking about here today which is the legal strategy and what that s going to look like, but the political strategy that you were seeing the president use when it comes to this visit and how they are going to be fund-raising off of it and using it as, of course, he tries to make his way throug
muse mauz hello, and thank you so much for joining us i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. this morning divided they fall, the republican party grappling with whether to go all in on trump or break away after his historic indictment. we ll have a live report from capitol hill and break down the new reporting about his legal troubles. plus, extreme weather battering the south. we re talking 5 inch diameter hail, and rare june tornados in the southeast leaving thousands without electricity, while houston s implementing an emergency plan to help residents deal with triple digit temperatures. we re looking at approximately ten days of over 100 degrees, and you know, with record breaking days as well. and later, an indictment for danny wenny. the this-year-old marine veteran is facing a second degree manslaughter charge for putting jordan neely in a deadly chokehold last month. and we re keeping a close eye on the supreme court with a handful of working days left,
that s the show for tonight, so you can tomorrow, and it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, alex. we have a last word fan favorite joining us tonight at the end of the hour, dr. lance , he s a former professor of psychiatry at harvard medical school. and early on in the trump presidency, i think was maybe within two months, three months, he and a group of other psychiatrist had seen enough, and they felt they had a duty to warn america. that eventually became the book titled the dangerous case of donald trump. and i think the first time it came out it was in the title, it said, you know, 19 psychiatrists made the case. it s now up to 37. [laughter] they kept reissuing the book as time went by. and each new paperback edition, because last i checked it was 27, and it s pretty sure it was 37 the other day. there are more psychiatrist who are, like, sign me up, i m on board, i cosign. 37, 37. anyways, the doctor has
congress came out forcefully on the side of the former president. they claimed others who did the same thing were let off or given a slap on the wrist. we re going to lay out the facts of those cases that they continue to cite to let you compare and contrast for yourself. but as for bill bar, donald trump s attorney general who helped shield him from trouble after the mueller investigation, there s no comparison. we re going to play that sound byte while we also watch this plane for donald trump to disembark. let s listen first. there are two big lies, i think, that are out there right now. one is, oh, these other presidents took all of these documents. those were situations where they arranged with the archives to set up special space under the management, control, and security provided by the archivist to temporarily put documents into the libraries were ready. these were not people just putting them in their basement. okay. and the second thing that the president, the id