i believe it is. it remains to be seen if it will hurt him at all politically. he is still the front runner for the republican presidential primary. and trump s campaign is not slowing down at all. today he is on a stump in the south making his first speeches since the indictment in georgia and north carolina. i am simone sanders townsend and i have something to say about it all. what kind of democracy are weak? are we a mature democracy, capable of enforcing its rules and laws? or an immature democracy choosing chaos over the competition. questions after this week s historic federal indictment of former president donald trump. and if you didn t get a chance to read that damning 44-page document, or 45, i highly encourage you to do it. it is all right, because we have got you suffered. on thursday we learned the former president was indicted by the justice department and its investigation of mishandling of classified documents. and yesterday when the indictment was unse
wanted to order the doj to prosecute his enemies. hillary clinton and james comey. that of course failed fantastically what his white house counsel refused the request. so, once out of office trump took matters in his own hand. in march, trump sued hillary clinton, the democratic national committee, james comey and a whole host of other characters. accusing them of being part of a conspiracy against him. in what he refers to as the trump russia conspiracy. this is all circa 2016. all of these people, according to, trump made up evidence against him in an attempt to deny him to russia hillary clinton and her, quo cohorts, orchestrated in unthinkable plot. trump sought $24 million in damages. that s not an insignificant amount of money. and he chose to file that lawsuit roughly 70 miles from his palm beach home, because the judge presiding in that jurisdiction just so happen to be his appointee. that judge whom we all come to know very well over the past few weeks, of course,
now, it s sickening to see the new attacks on the fbi. threatening life of law enforcement agents and their families. for simply carrying out the law and doing their job. look, i want to say this clear as i can, there s no place in this country no place for endangering the lives of law enforcement. no place. none. never, period. i m opposed to defunding the police and also opposed to defunding the fbi. president biden condemning the attacks on the fbi after the remarks which came just hours before we got stunning new details overnight about why the justice department felt it had no choice but to seize classified documents from the president s florida estate and club. including evidence that some of the documents were likely moved and hidden. we ll have the many new revelations from the late night court filing. also this hour, remembering mikhail gorbachev, the final leader of the soviet union. a reformer who lifted the iron curtain and helped to end the cold war. good mor
a couple at this point about donald trump. what were your main takeaways from this federal indictment that we now have? you know, our reporting over the last few months and that of other news outlets is sort of hitting the broad strokes of the conduct that is being alleged here. but what struck me need i-10 is just how overt some of the alleged conduct really is. you know the photos are incredibly striking. color photos of his indictment of, like you pointed to, boxes and bathrooms and overflowing with documents. and just the few anecdotes that we get from this indictment, it is really a speaking indictment which is something that the justice department puts together in order to really convey to the public what the contract and what the charges allege here. and it is very colorful and it is very revealing. i think it was a pretty good read. anthony, i think the striking thing about the indictment for me is that most of the detail here comes from
11,000 seized records from his florida beach club. over 11,000 records that include top secret and classified documents and empty folders. moments ago, the justice department and team trump jointly filed armored motion concerning that special master. judge aileen cannon asked that decides to come together to suggest a list of people to potentially be that special master. and to no one s surprise, the two sides do not agree. this literally just in, hot off the presses. the justice department puts forth to former federal judges, the honor of barbara as jones, and thomas griffith. interestingly enough, they were both appointed by republican presidents, and barbara jones was a special master in the michael cohen and rudy giuliani investigation. meanwhile, team trump has put forth the honor raymond thierry and paul hawk jr.. a reminder, the final decision, if there is a special master, and that is a gigantic if here, because the doj is in the midst of fighting a special master