menendez. this week a first for america. seeing a president of the united states arraigned on federal criminal charges. today a bronchial prediction from trump s former attorney general saying his former boss is quote toast. we are going to unpack that in just a second. trump s arraignment will go down tuesday in miami he will face a judge on 37 counts of mishandling classified documents. today, trump announced he would illiberal about his arraignment in miami from his golf club in new jersey tuesday evening. the indictment the united states versus donald de trump, and walt nada, his alleged coconspirator lays out a damning case. 31 counts for violating the espionage act, which pars willful retention of national defense information, well laws of a witch hunt spew from trump and the elected republicans who have anointed themselves as backup singers, one member of trump s cabinet, we ll, thinking otherwise. if even half of it is true, then he is toast. i mean it s a very de
declassified was protected by the secret service. fact-check, trump said himself he did not because of other documents before taking them. we should also knows house speaker kevin mccarthy is taking a new step in backing trump s claims, saying he plans to launch an investigation into the indictment. joining me now illinois crawl and grossman raj congressman, a new yougov cbs poll out today shows republican polls overwhelmingly continue to support trump, that traps have a lot of the other polling we ve seen. i think that tells us why we see elected officials like kevin mccarthy, defending trump as they are. he now says he vows to investigate the indictment. what do you make of that? i think that he is saying what i think, politically, he feels like he has to say. but i have to tell you, the indictment itself as trump s former attorney general bill barr says quote unquote, very damning. it lays out an exclusionary
distracted by this indictment? i m not sure. as you know, they are completely distracted right now. by other matters that have basically thrown the house majority into chaos. the house majority does not have control of the floor as you know from developments over the last week. this will probably cause them to continue to try to unite in this weaponization theme, but obviously, you know, facts will come out in this case and as the months, and weeks, and months unfold, i think they will be hard-pressed to say that there is nothing to this indictment. and so i think that will be a constraining force on them. congressman raj krishnamoorthi, thank you as always for taking the time to be with us. next, the indictment in the next election. how is this going to play out on the trail? and later, the other guy and i
a lot of americans people who run small businesses, people who use the mail for normal bill paying and correspondence a lot of americans, millions of americans have been really mad about how bad the postal service has been urn his leadership. it is apparently by design, it s what he s set out to do and has done. if you could speak directly to americans who have been mad about this, what would you expect in term of a time line of getting rid of him and starting to process of undoing what he s done? in the new year, i m hoping that the new chair of the board of governors conducts a vote with regard to mr. dejoy and relieves him of his duties. i m very hopeful that happens sooner rather than later in the new year. illinois congressman raj krishnamoorthi who s been playing point on the issue of louis dejoy, leftover from the trump years, helming the postal service, doing a job that s infuriating and inconveniencing
bit more of a subdued q&a session. we can t wait for the transcripts of the closed-door session. congressman raj krishnamoorthi, david cay johnston, emily jane fox, thank you all for starting us off tonight. really appreciate it. and when we come back, we have breaking news from the new york times reporting that donald trump order john kelly to give jared kushner a top security clearance over the objections of intelligence professionals and his own white house counsel. and then of course donald trump publicly said that he did not do that. and donald trump did not make a deal with kim jong un, but that doesn t mean that the north korean dictator walked away with nothing. kim jong un got the american president on video absolving him of killing american citizen otto warmbier. and at the end of this hour we re going to talk about the display of racism in the house of representatives yesterday. i will explain to you why the congresswoman who correctly said it was racist chose to apologi