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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
Welcome to prime time we can, i am nicolle wallace. Lets get right to the weeks top stories. Donald trump would never keep the Fifth Amendment. If youre innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment . Now he is on trial for Hiding Hush Money payments to a star. But he wont take the stand. Donald, why wont you testify . After all, you believe only guilty cowards to the fifth. Fifth amendment, Fifth Amendment, Fifth Amendment, horrible. Horrible. Please take the stand, donald. Or admit you are a coward. It is a big Open Question at this point, will he or wont he . Will donald trump take the stand in his defense in his own Criminal Trial . The jury good to hear from the man at the center of all of it, the defendant directly. We have seen the expresident take the stand or go under oath for very short periods of time in previous trials and it has got not gone very well for him. In november of last year he testified in the Civil Fraud Trial against him and his businesses, where he flung a
Democracy at stake, the nine justices of the United States Supreme Court hold in their hands the power to forever alter the trajectory of our country. How they rule on cases having to do with january 6th, violent attempt to disrupt the transfer of power, will echo for generations. So not only is it reasonable for us to expect those nine human beings to go about their process impartially, its vital that they are seen and perceived as being impartial appearance. The mere appearance of bias could strain our trust in an honest result for these cases, which is why todays news isnt just disturbing, its scary. The New York Times cites photos and interviews with neighbors in reporting that in 2021, days before president joe bidens inauguration as president , days after the deadly attack on the United States capitol of january 6th, neighbors of conservative Justice Samuel alito noticed something on his lawn, an upside down american flag, a symbol commonly used in those days by Trump Supporters
co-defendants? it might. i don t think any of them will be held in the jail so i don t think it will be that kind of leverage. it is a slight mistake that we re focusing so much on the flipping. no one prosecutes makes a case thinking we ll flip people. they re ready to go. what about rudy giuliani? that has been a story kind of undercovered. we ve learned he s facing hundreds of thousands in legal bills, and the sanctions taking place. it doesn t sound like he s getting a great deal of assistance from the trump team. maybe we ll find out that isn t the case. what is happening with rudy giuliani is extraordinary. it is extraordinary. probably painful for him because