that is expected to start any minute now. we ll bring you that as soon as it begins. plus, the polarizing plea deal for the president s son. republicans blasting the agreement that lets hunter biden avoid jail time as a slap on the wrist. but some legal experts suggest that if his last name wasn t biden, he might never have faced charges in the first place. and this deal was announced just about half an hour after we learned donald trump s court date. now less than eight weeks away. does judge aileen cannon s accelerated timeline suggest this trial could be over before the primaries even begin? but, we start with the extraordinary developments developing the current and former president on the same okay that donald trump s trial date is set, president biden s son hunter has reached a deal with federal prosecutors to avoid a trial and jail time. and we will get to that momentarily. but, first, let s take you to the coast guard briefing, the latest on the sub and the five p
on all of this later on. we re separately learning that the bond order that the president had to sign in order to leave the courthouse states that he had no contact with any witnesses in this case, including walt nauta, that was indicted. the former body man for the president who was helping him move boxes around. some say that he was this co conspirator that hatched this plan to hide that from authorities. so much we don t know. this much we do. the former president went ahead and signed that bond order about a half an hour ago. let s get the latest from mark meredith in miami. he takes a look at what went down just a few minutes ago. hi, mark. neil, good afternoon to you. a historic day. these proceedings will continue long after this arraignment hearing wrapped up in the last few minutes. as we mentioned, the former president pleading not guilty. the justice department under the special counsel last charged him with that he conspired to hide these classified documents as
highlights. we are not going to analyze the former president of the united states repeating lies, smears, and bigotry. we ve all heard it many, many times before. however, but we need to do tonight is solve for how news organizations will cover donald j trump, the twice impeached, indicted, liable for sex abuse private citizen. if he doesn t fact when the republican nomination. it has nothing to do with what he did tonight. he did what he has done countless times before. the question we need to answer is what we are going to do next. let s get right to it. my nbc news washington correspondent colleague emulsion centers here, liam cold will of the washington post, and andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel and nbc news legal analyst. coming, this is the first and we ve seen trump outside of the cocoon of conservative media for a long time. where was he? in a thunderdome stacked with his sister borders cheering him on and he steamroll through his greatest hits of lies. if
private citizen. if he doesn t fact when the republican nomination. it has nothing to do with what he did tonight. he did what he has done countless times before. the question we need to answer is what we are going to do next. let s get right to it. my nbc news washington correspondent colleague emulsion centers here, liam cold will of the washington post, and andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel and nbc news legal analyst. coming, this is the first and we ve seen trump outside of the cocoon of conservative media for a long time. where was he? in a thunderdome stacked with his sister borders cheering him on and he steamroll through his greatest hits of lies. if this man is the nominee, ignoring him is not an option for any of us. so what are we going to do? stephanie, it s a great question. i m not quite sure that we as a reporting atmosphere, as a reporting group have really figured it out. we have to obviously fact check him, we have to obviously try our best to c