ari melber starts right now. i m glad i let you go because i remember you have your own show to anchor. thank you. our thanks to nicolle wallace and the whole team there doing this cover nl. we continue the breaking coverage of the first ever federal indictment of a former president. today the justice department unsealed an indictment of defendant donald trump of 37 counts. we re covering this historic and unprecedented development with our legal experts who have been pouring over this 44-page indictment since it was first unsealed this afternoon. the nation heard from special counsel jack smith for actually the first time ever today. a prosecutor known for his work and today his actions, indicting the former president after about seven months on the job. and he spoke clearly and concisely about this indictment and national security crimes. today an indictment was unsealed charging donald j. trump with felony violations over national security laws, conspiracy to obstruc
case, you need to, but again, this case i think is so he s so boxed in with the way this indictment is, they may really not have to focus too much on the motive. yeah, it s funny you mention that. i ll put up on the screen again from the new indictment what they are telling the court, and what would be part of the case against trump, united states v. trump, that you have the military capabilities of a foreign country and the u.s. among the kind of info that he took. nuclear capabilities of a foreign country, a foreign country s support for terror acts against the u.s., the military operations against the u.s., that goes to risk and assessment abroad as well as as we showed in other headlines on the screen tonight, the nuclear weaponry of the u.s. itself. and so i m curious then, given david you have taken us back into the law, which is okay on a day like today, i m curious then what you make of why they did take the tape which alludes to motive, the prosecutors don t