Here. She is not an expert in . And refused to answer the questions. Reporter yeah, trace, beginning very early this morning, our team has been here outside of the courthouse alongside numerous other members of the media and everyone was basically anticipating or awaiting for a potential indictment against the former president today and much earlier today All Of A Sudden there was this post or information circulating that he had been indicted and that reuters had published basically a screenshot of the indictment. We are talking about earlier today. Around lunchtime hour it. Not that generated a lot of buzz. All of a sudden, the Fulton County . Office said, those are not correct documents. They are not legitimate. They are fictitious. There is no indictment. Now fast forward six to 12 hours, here we are midnight and the indictment finally came down tonight. It is remarkably similar if not identical to the document that surfaced earlier today on the County Website that was supposed to b
quote, encouraging the immediate release. we ll see. trump has had the documents in his possession, though, since monday s search. though there is nothing stopping him and his legal team from making it public at any time. the forward motion here came from attorney general merrick garland, making a big statement yesterday and making it clear that he personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant for trump s home. and also new this morning, the washington post reports the fbi searched trump s home seeking classified documents related to nuclear weapons. let s begin with more from washington on this looming deadline for donald trump. what are you hearing about this? reporter: well, we did see that statement almost 12 hours ago from donald trump saying he s encouraging the re the release of the documents. we haven t seen the documents or a court filing yet. i checked a few minutes ago in the southern district of florida, court docket for the search warrant. noth
looter chuck schumer and house minority leader hakeem jeffries weighing in on the breaking news is saying the indictment of donald trump just like the portrays a repeated pattern of criminal activity by the former president. that said, the former president is not appear to be taking any political hits. at least among republicans where he continues to hold a widely over his challengers. trace: jackie ibanez, thank you. let s bring in kaylee mcghee white. i do know, but when hillary clinton comes out, calling them corrupt, just seems like it is very rich. taking the hammers, to the servers and flitting all the e-mails and she is coming out and calling you names. i think maybe that is not the best guess for guest for msnbc. i disagree. who better than the expert on
capitol police, treating them basically like enemy combatants. the capitol police they guard the building. now you worry that the rhetoric coming from trump and other republican leaders will also amp up the tensions against law enforcement. but the problem is our norms have become so different. we don t have the normal reaction of respecting law enforcement. we see issues with veterans and with some people that are surprising, alliances are shifting. we ve basically turned it into a circus. i don t know that we ought to be completely surprised when the clowns come out here. that s what we re seeing. we fear the local law enforcement receiving the the repercussions of this type of attack on law enforcement. it s going to be the nut jobs upset with the system and feel like because somebody has called out law enforcement, called them corrupt, this type of thing, that i worry that we re going to see other incidents down the road. yeah. and peter, right after the
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