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
innocent until proven guilty and he has not been proven guilty of anything as of yet, despite the aggressive charges. the indictment is damning, but as i heard earlier, this is a prosecutions document. so i needed to wait and see what the defense is going to say. look, it s legal, and its political. so the league is gonna play itself out. the political, the thing that the white house should do is what we have seen them do over the last year and a half since its investigation came into fruition. we re not gonna have them say anything. she s gonna go to the podium and say joe biden s gonna be shouted questions. he s gonna pretend that he can t hear you and make a wisecrack joke and see something about the economy or republicans in congress. that s the type of rope they will walk. i think, until we get to a general election. let s just say, hypothetically