from going to elementary school. we are going to get into it. thank, you as, always the fabulous simone. a great show tonight. and, good evening. welcome to politicsnation. tonight s lead, trump tangled web. right, now the front runner for the republican presidential nomination in 2024 finds himself ensnared in a picket of legal liabilities. this week special counsel jack smith hit former president donald trump with new federal criminal charges in the classified documents case. alleging trump was part of a scheme to delete security video showing boxes of sensitive government materials being moved around in the mar-a-lago resort. trump, is as expected denying the new charges. meanwhile another federal indictments related to trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 vote could drop at anytime. and there are the state level cases. charges related to falsifying business documents have already been handed down in new york. and an election interference investigation in georgia is ongo
chair of the january six committee. we re going to get into what he expects to see in the next indictment and what s at stake for democracy now. meanwhile, trump is out on the campaign trail joining opponents in iowa. most of them are still dancing around the elephant in the room. i m simone sanders townsend, and i have something to say. this week was full of surprises, the classified documents case just got a whole lot worse for former president donald trump and some of his employees. a superseding indictment unsealed on thursday comes with new charges. previously undisclosed evidence and additional defendant and the historic case. for trump, this includes one additional counts of willful retention and two additional counts of obstruction. for a grand total of 40 criminal counts. trump s personal aide walt nauta saw at the same to obstruction charges in addition to the 60 already faced in the initial indictment. and now, there is a third defendant, mar-a-lago property mana
Watching symone on this saturday. i m symone sanders-townsend. you can catch me right here on msnbc weekends at four pm eastern. anytime over on peacock. i have new episodes on the msnbc hub every monday. politics nation with the great reverend al sharpton is up next i know you re going to talk about trump and update the people on what s going on. i also understand that you re going to get into this case of an alabama man who black man elected beer and an bantam that alleges that white leaders in the town are keeping him from the position that he filed a civil rights lawsuit. it sounds like something straight out of 1952. absolutely. we re going to get it to. it they locked him out of his office. they won t let him run. again we ll get into that as well as alabama defines a supreme court. it reminds me my mother was from alabama. growing up, i remember the governor of alabama standing in the door, blocking kids my age