host begins right now. e msnb host begins right now. good evening. welcome to tonight special coverage. i m rachel maddow here at the msnbc mothership with my colleagues joy reid and lawrence o donnell and jen psaki and ari melber. i friends chris hayes and alex wagner and stephanie ruhle or are gonna be joining us later. it s going to be fun. we re less than a week out from the republican presidential caucuses in iowa. theast eye or a public can debate is underway tonight with oddly a sort of random selection of two of the remaining five republican presidential candidates. taking part in that debate. if you can, right now, name all five remaining republican presidential candidates at the top of your head without looking anything up, congratulations. and i ll say you need to get out more. two are debating tonight. nikki haley and ron desantis. also tonight, two miles away from that iowa debate, fox news conducted a live town hall with the front running republican candida
to a very special edition of outfront. the breaking news, chris christie drops out. the bombshell coming just two hours before cnn s gop debate, the last debate before the first votes of the 2024 election. i m erin burnett in new york, and welcome the our viewers here and around the world. and i m anderson cooper in des moines, iowa. behind me, the stage is set for the debate tonight between nikki haley and ron desantis. and christie s surprise announcement just raised the stakes here in a big way. here is chris christie in his own words. it s clear to me tonight that there isn t a path for me to win the nomination. which is why i m suspending my campaign tonight for president of the united states. the question, of course, who will christie endorse. conventional wisdom says nikki haley. but christie was caught on a hot mic right before his announcement saying this about haley. she s going to get smoked. and you and i both know it. she is not up to this. well, obvi
president pleaded not guilty to all 37 federal charges after turning himself in to the miamd. federal courthouse. now, hundreds of his supporters took to the streets outsidhundre the courthouse. some even prayed for trump at se tha arbitrarily stopped at. as he left the courthouse seemed kind of relaxedind of.. now, the justice department is alleging, in case you ve been in a cave the, that the for president mishandled classified documents that includedocumentdo us defense of weapons, secrets and even an attack plan on an unnamed foreign powen r filling. iran. w1 of the charges violate a la called the espionage act. now, whatever you think of donald trump st.donald actions,o put this all into context. the espionage ac c t is over 100 years old. president woodrow wilson signed pres into law to protect the nation from foreign spies duringring world war one. now, most prosecutions involving the espionage act have been reserved for actual spies like julius and ethel rosenberr g
amendment to the constitution to pass. not gonna happen. speak on the back side. moms for liberty highlighted anti government extremists. we are letting it kind of rroll off our back in a sense. if you are a hate group count me in. killed biden s bailout. i m not going to back down. that s why i m going to veto this bill. education not for profit. this is unconstitutional. free money is popular. good morning, everybody. it is friday, june 9th, 2023. and our lead story is a fox news alert. and a blockbuster. former president and current 2024 republican frontrunner donald trump has been indicted on seven criminal charges. brian: right. the charges remain sealed. but we know they are related to the classified documents found at mar-a-lago. ainsley: alexandria hoff joins us from washington with the latest. good morning, alexandria. good morning oto you. the white house had no advanced notice that the miami grand jury would be handing down this indictment
trump reacting to the possibility earlier claiming in social media post the investigation is a hoax and that he is done not being joining me now, laura jarrett and former lead prosecutor to special counsel robert mueller and former u.s. attorney, joyce vance. laura, take us through your latest specific reporting an the legal questions facing jack smith s team. what we know is that the grand jury is expected to meet once again after a pretty long lull. there would been so much frenetic activity at the white house, so many witnesses coming in and out then everything stopped and went dark. that was around early may. we ve now learned, sources familiar have confirmed that they are expected to meet again this week. reporting on grand jury is always fraught because the process is secret but that s what we re able to report at least at this moment. and andrew, give us a sense of what s going on behind the scenes. what does jack smith have to do before making a recommendation o