our special breaking news coverage on msnbc as donald j trump is likely facing his most serious legal challenge yet. today, we learned much more about the very serious federal criminal charges in involving his handling of top secret u.s. documents. today, special counsel jack smith released an indictment laying out the evidence against trump. nbc s laura jarrett has the details. new details on the stubborn move up the speed of a former president, also the leading republican challenger to president biden. special counsel jack smith alleging mr. trump mishandled classified documents after leaving office, and obstruction efforts to retrieve them in the state of florida. we have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone. smith laying out 37 criminal counts against the former president, including charges under the espionage act accusing him of improperly retaining national defense information. the indictment says among the classified documents kept in box
lackey, a loyalist and a true believer, but no one can deny his ongoing seven tralt to donald trump s conduct after today we can likely also describe him as a key witness into the multiple criminal investigations threatening donald j. trump. today when jack met boris, boris epstein, that is, one of the central figures in today s trump world is sitting down with prosecutors from special counsel jack smith s office. it is a development that is sure to inspire questions about where either one of those two criminal probes investigating the disgraced ex-president s conduct is heading the new york times reports this, quote, given his expansive ties to trump, mr. epstein is in a position to provide information in both of the investigations that mr. smith is overseeing one focused on trump s efforts to retain power after losing the 2020 election, the other centered on his handling of classified documents after he left the white house until recently, mr. epstein played a critical ro
occasions including at his golf club in new jersey in july of 2021 where during an audio recorded meeting with writer, publisher, and to me members of staff, he showed them, quote, a plan of attack. mr. trump said he was prepared and a senior military official saying, quote, as president, i could ve declassified it. now i can t. you know, this is still the secret. those comments seemingly a direct contradiction to the former presidents previous defense. i took what i took and it gets declassified. that using his power as commander-in-chief, he had already declassified the documents that he took to mar-a-lago. when your president of the united states, you can declassified by just saying it s declassified. this will begin return any classified documents pulled in mar-a-lago. the fbi ended up searching the property and the indictment alleges mr. trump obstructing investigators efforts including
special counsel smith are investigating whether it was an illegal operation. what s so interesting, i think you put your finger on it, there s always an outside play and inside reality this was revealed in the mueller, volume 2 of the mueller report, or on the outside. i didn t do anything, i didn t do anything. there s nothing to find. the second volume is about trump obstructing the investigation into what there is nothing to find boris epstein seems to sit at the center of the outside game and the inside game where on documents he s been otv i m not going to offend my viewers by playing much of it. he s been on tv saying he didn t do anything wrong. behind the scenes he may have been central to the most sort of dangerous act, the one under the most intense legal scrutiny, right, putting together bob and corcoran who have both been before the grand jury? i think when you re willing to go that far, lawyers aren t
his wrongdoing. there s a legal term for that and it s a crime. it s called obstruction of justice. obstruction of justice. obstruction of justice. and the mueller report is filled with trump obstructing justice. donald trump, if you re listening, on behalf of the american people, we will hold you accountable. will you? rob reiner is here to explain the plan and whether there s momentum for impeaching trump when we re back in 30 seconds. momentum for impeaching trump when we re back in 30 seconds. o, wireless charging for your phone. cool! wait til you check out the back! that s a lot of groceries. look at my strong man! don t patronize me. the new buick envision is full of surprises. current eligible gm owners get up to 16 percent below msrp on most of these 2019 buick models. that s just over 7 thousand on this envision premium.