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our special breaking news coverage on msnbc as donald j trump is likely facing his most serious legal challenge yet. today, we learned much more about the very serious federal criminal charges in involving his handling of top secret u.s. documents. today, special counsel jack smith released an indictment laying out the evidence against trump. nbc s laura jarrett has the details. new details on the stubborn move up the speed of a former president, also the leading republican challenger to president biden. special counsel jack smith alleging mr. trump mishandled classified documents after leaving office, and obstruction efforts to retrieve them in the state of florida. we have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone. smith laying out 37 criminal counts against the former president, including charges under the espionage act accusing him of improperly retaining national defense information. the indictment says among the classified documents kept ....
Classified documents kept in boxes, information about u.s. nuclear programs, potential vulnerabilities of the u.s. and allies, and secret plans for retaliation in case of foreign attack. our laws that protect national defense information are critical for the safety and security of the united states and they must be enforced. violations of those laws put our country at risk. the boxes were stored in various places around mr. trump s mar-a-lago home including ballroom, a bathroom, and shower, his office space, and bedroom, and storage room. prosecutors attached photos to the indictment showing boxes stacked to the walls and storage rooms, others documents spilling out of a box. mr. trump responding late today writing, the box continues papers and personal pictures. the paper also alleges mr. trump showed classified information to people without security clearance on two ....
Have their chance to pass judgment come november. knowing whether the nominee is a convict or not. and in the normal run of things, they will be able to complete this trial by then. she could easily indulge his obvious strategy of delay which is going to start right out of the box. he ll need new lawyers to get up to speed, et cetera. my number one fear of her selection is whether she can delay things or agreed to certain motions as a result of what we won t even have a trial between now and november 2024. that s the biggest concern. of course, running the clock has been a winning strategy for donald trump. charles, in terms of a 1 to 10, how about of a blow was a to jack smith who has, again, what appears to be a strong case to get a lead cannon and a blow that was a calculated risk, he knew this could happen. ....
Wheels in motion. all the facts that we have heard to the contrary. he s really kept the justice department at arm s length. he s allowed merrick garland to run that agency independent and to add even more arms than, merrick garland appointed a special counsel. he wasn t even involved in the daily operations of this case. the department of justice in the white house have gone to some lanes here to make sure that this wasn t political, that it wasn t influenced by politics, but that doesn t have stopped the narrative on the right. you see almost every statement even from the highest ranking republicans in the country saying joe biden has politicized the justice department, that s not what the facts show at all. so we can try to fact-check that in the media and we do. but the narrative has really taken off the right for sure. it s taken off so we need to yes? the only fact is guilty or innocent here and it s a ....
Twice about when i make these decisions, or she around election season and says and i think the idea of career impish an and wanted to move up maybe something that stays in the back of her mind as she makes decisions in this case. do we are we sitting here looking like a pack of hypocrites on one hand saying this is not about politics, this is all about justice in the department of justice and the wheels of justice are turning on one hand, and then on the other reasoning here saying, well what if this judge is in the pocket of donald trump? we can do some like hypocrites. i wouldn t say hypocrites but look, it s politics and a lot intertwined. that s the möbius trick we have. i just want to point out the very record she established before under the governing 11th circuit law could ground a motion by the doj to recuse her. it s exactly that kind of thing ....