mosel and indictment of the u.s. president of a kind of take you there alive, these are strange days indeed. both the current and former president under special counsel investigation of taking classified documents. today, former president trump was on a golf course oreo today in new jersey, and he also shoop his legal team after learning that he will face charges in miami and they were grand juries remember in d.c. and in miami, and there s a suggestion that they were not expecting this to be centered in miami. but now there is a whole lot of things that we need to talk about around the meaning of that and what that will look like. more on all of the cinema met with congressman michael waltz, constitutional attorney jonathan jonathan turley, former fbi attorney, and former deputy assistant attorney general john year, so they have a great write up as we wait for jack smith at the podium here for any minute. first lucas tomlinson as we get this underway. hello lucas. hello ma
counts. local and federal officials ramping up security. the far right group, the proud boys, were discussing traveling to florida to show their support for the former president. hours after the court appearance, trump is going to hold a fund-raiser. he ll speak there before that ev event. his first public comments coming over the weekend. trump telling politico he has no plans to drop out of the 2024 race saying, quote, i ll never leave. americans are split about how they feel about the indictment. half think he should be charged and half think it was politically motivated. cnn this morning starts right now. you know those weeks that start where you just kind of take a deep breath and say, this is going to be a week. it is going to be a week. the weeks that feel like they have been a week before they have started, there are a lot of questions before the next 24 hours. it is going to be a week. we have the best team in the business. we do. our team of report
chief legal correspondent ari melber, legal analyst, andrew weissmann, and my friend and colleague, msnbc anchor katy tur. rachel, we re about to hear from jack smith himself. if i have to interrupt you abruptly, i apologize in advance. your thoughts right now. reading the indictment, nicolle, i was struck by the simplicity of it structurally. this is not a case where we need to wait for somebody to flip. there s no allen weisselberg character out here who we need to find out how much they re going to tell prosecutors. there s no opaque question of intent that we need to wait to see if prosecutors have some access to. there s no, you know, contingent second crime that elevates these things to a more serious thing. all things that we ve seen in other serious cases involving trump and his business. in this case this is straightforward. what they re laying out, it s an accusation. it is not a conviction. what they re accusing him of is that he was not allowed to have this stuf
actually happens at the dam that collapsed? we will investigate the new evidence. we are going to start, though, in the us with donald trump. and the indictment against him. this document tells us the story of him taking documents away from his time in office, back to maxi where he lives and storing them there. let s take a look at some of the pictures. there we go, that is some of the documents that are being stored in a bathroom, that is a ballroom their. boxes and boxes of documents. what is in them? documents potentially classified, and the indictment talks about him taking them from the white house, showing them to people, talking about them and potentially concealing them from investigators. there are 37 counts, most of them, 31 of them for the wilful retention of national defence information. also others about conspiracy to obstruct justice. also others about conspiracy to obstructjustice. i want to give you a heads up, we do have our political expert standing by to gi
former president suggested to his attorney that he falsely tell the fbi and the grand jury that they didn t have any documents, and they go through chapter and verse of his conversations with evan corcoran, who is identified here as attorney number one. they also say that the former president directed his valet, his assistant, his aide, walt nauta, to move boxes back and forth to conceal them from evan corcoran before corcoran did a search, and then was able to tell the justice department there were fewer documents than there really were at mar-a-lago. again, the justice department saying these are some of the things that the former president did to try to get his attorney to hide or destroy documents. he said that they they say he provided the fbi with just only some of the documents that had been demanded under a grand jury subpoena. and he s also caused a certification to be submitted to the fbi saying they were producing all the documents, when, as you know, when the fb