in a hearing that lasted just a few minutes, he pleaded not guilty to six counts laid out in last month s indictment. those charges include conspiracy to obstruct justice, withholding a document or record, and making false statements. upon leaving the courthouse, nauta made no comments. do you have anything else to say? anything to say? anything to say about today s appearance, mr. nauta? his arraignment comes a day after a federal judge is more of the affidavit you slap it last summer to search mar-a-lago. it survived surveillance footage showing nauta levine dozens of boxes in and out of the storage room days before investigators arrived to collect sensitive records still in trump s possession. also tonight, the washington post reports the federal prosecutors on this case are now facing increasing threats, including substantial harassment threats online and elsewhere, according to extremism experts, and a government official familiar with the matter. meanwhile, we re
greetings. i am symone sanders-townsend in for stephanie ruhle. donald trump s longtime aide and codefendant finally faces his arraignment. walt nauta appeared in federal court in miami three weeks after his boss pleaded not guilty to more than three dozen counts in the case. is nauta accused of helping trump hide top secret material from authorities after leaving the white house. his hearing have been delayed because of travel issues and because he had been unable to find a local lawyer. but he did find one, and today, in a hearing that lasted just a few minutes, he pleaded not guilty to six counts laid out in last month s indictment. those charges include conspiracy to obstruct justice, withholding a document or record, and making false statements. upon leaving the courthouse, nauta made no comments. do you have anything else to say? anything to say? anything to say about today s appearance, mr. nauta? his arraignment comes a day after a federal judge is more of the a
but justice department, to toluse s point has a number of investigations going on. now the documents case we ve been discussing but there s also the january 6th case. as we speak of the justice department is pushing to add felony charges in the case of a january 6th defendant who was arrested near former president obama s home while heavily armed. joyce, what exactly happened here. why are prosecutors in this position. it s my understanding the gentleman could potentially be what s going on right now is a hearing about whether or not he should be detained. he s only been charged with misdemeanors related to january 6th. the government has suggested that they are felony charges in the offing related to this incident where he apparently acquires president obama s address from a social media post that donald trump made he. then proceeds to that area
about since non trump was president in january of 2017. he s not only attacked merrick garland, he has attacked his own attorneys general including jeff sessions and bill barr when he did things that he didn t like. he personally attacked. then he went after prosecutors robert mueller s team who were conducting the russian investigation. he went after prosecutors on other cases that he did not like and he even attacked durham, a special prosecutor was brought in, special counselor counsel brought in to undo the russian investigation when he thought that durham wasn t doing what he wanted or fast enough. this pattern of donald trump attacking people inside the justice department to delegitimized the department, to threaten people, to scare them into doing what he wants, is something that s not new at all. it s almost weirder when he was president because of his handpicked officials. but now he s making it more personal, and he s make it more pointed. because of january 6th, the threat o
trump or trying to put him in the crosshairs unjustly, that he will make the most of that and he will explode this for as much political advantage is possible. and so it s very clear that the justice department is trying to dot all their eyes, cross all their t s, for more information into the public than they probably normally would in a case like this, because they are not only looking at the jurors and looking at the judge but also looking at the american public and trying to make sure this case is as rock-solid as possible so trump can t use it to his political advantage and he can twist the facts of this case to make it seem like he s a political victim. this is never been done for four. we ve never indicted federally a presidential candidate or a president who previously served in office. and while another presidential campaign is going. on for that reason, that s part of the reason the justice department is handling this with a lot of care and trying to make sure they re doing e