hey everybody, good afternoon. i m yasmin vossoughian. donald trump is in for the fight of his life. the former president faces a tuesday arraignment on 37 criminal counts, involving his refusal to turn over classified documents that never should have been in his possession. this hour, he s gonna be taking his defense public within appearance in georgia. as his gop political rivals tiptoe around the story. in addition to the politics of, this we are going to dive deeply into the substance of the allegations in the indictment. it is a treasure trove of damning material from photos that showed documents being hoarded and bedrooms, bathrooms, and even the mar-a-lago ballroom. conversations where trump himself waves around top secret material as well as evidence, in which he apparently tries to get his own lawyers to lie to the feds. looking for the documents. we will get into all of this coming up. we begin with the new information that we re learning with the unsealing of the h
bizarre and depressing and i would love to think that this is purely let s hope, all right, good to see roe, thank you guys. meantime, of course, no shortage of angles to the trump and vitamins. we re unpacking all of these next, but first, this washington post editorial, a shower full of secret documents elites to a solid trump indictment. and then there s this, trump denied having nuclear secrets, the feds say heated, and of course, a look ahead with trump indicted, officials prepare for a tempest, his court appearance the expectations for tuesday, all this next hour. all this next hour as i bet you all a very good day, from msnbc world headquarters here in new york, welcome everyone to alex witt reports. we begin with the breaking news in about 74 hours, former president donald trump will surrender himself to in miami, as he prepares for the second arraignment in two months. today, trump is heading the campaign trail, making stops in georgia and north carolina, where
yasmin, it is a puzzling place of business. there are other cases, criminal and supple, that will be taking place on tuesday. other clients, parties, lawyers, they re all gonna be coming in and out of that courthouse. but obviously all eyes will be on donald trump on tuesday afternoon at three pm. talk to me about the appointment of judge aileen cannon. we know her quite well. she is a trump appointee. and she has ruled in favor of the former president before. what we have heard when it comes to assignments like this one is they are assigned at random. we, however she has been assigned to this case. do you think jack smith is going to challenge this? we so, you are right. there is a random assignment. and yasmin, there s a whole lot of conspiracy theories out there saying how are the chances at her, who screwed it up so badly on the special master, appointment when the whole search warrant issue was
when you are building a case normally as a prosecutor, yasmin, you ve got direct or circumstantial evidence. sometimes the most you get is circumstantial evidence. you have to basically tell the y to infer from what you have to be able to build a case. it is an overwhelming amount, however, of direct evidence of trump s guilt in this case. you already mentioned in the setup for this segment, you ve got trump s own words on audiotape, you have his lawyers, copious, his details notes memorializing the attempts by donald trump to try to obstruct an investigation by the federal government. you also have text messages as well, and obviously surveillance video as you could see, in the indictment, there is a date and time stamps that speak to actions taken by the codefendant, coconspirator, walt nada. we heard a lot of us that knew that walt was jack smith after he was appointed by merrick garland to do. so we did not know the depth of. it now that we ve, seen it is
appeared to be pre-filmed, and mccarthy had shared a part of that video through a fox news digital article before the indictment was unsealed. he then posted a video that you saw on your screen. this morning to his twitter account. it all appeared pre-recorded, yasmin. again, he actually joined in what chairman jordan had to say of the weaponization committee and sending that letter to attorney general merrick garland. saying that it s on merrick garland, on the attorney general, to prove to americans and explain why they took these steps merrick garland has not reply to that letter. it is very interesting, you re right, the timing of that video and when was filmed. i m wondering if kevin mccarthy has had the opportunity to read all 49 pages of that indictment, a special counsel jack smith has urged the nation has juice to do so. julie tsirkin, thank you for now. still ahead everybody, the case is trump appointed judge, how someone that appears to favor the former president was hande