elections official in philadelphia and who was certainly the focus of some of the efforts by people associated with the former president trying to focus on this idea that there was fraud in center city philadelphia. commissioner schmidt, we had him on the show a lot. exactly. now he has been appointed. he s the secretary of the commonwealth now. in the case of maggie oliver, she was questioned in right weeks. th they re getting asked about the effects of the fraud claims and the threats they received, election officials all over the seven states that were the focus of some of the efforts by the former president and his allies, not only to claim fraud, but also to set aside the valid election results and try to replace them with donald trump essentially even though he had lost them. interestingly, even though this did seem to happen in all of these different battleground states, it s only georgia that there s a local investigation, in fulton county which contains part of
trump s prediction there is, again, it s not their role to abide by what the impacts could be in terms of bedlam or the political impact, but also if they were to abide by that, they re essentially giving in to trump. i mean, remember that he is the one that helped cause helped fan the flames that led to the insurrection, however they decide, right? and that is still an ongoing threat that people are dealing with, people of both parties, legislated officials, people in the judiciary who are not political at all because of this rhetoric. so it s already happening regardless of how the supreme court decides on this, and i think that s important to remember. jen psaki and michael steele, our thanks to both of you. let s do a quick reset at the top of the hour, i m ana cabrera alongside my colleagues, josé diaz-balart and andrea mitchell. thank you for being with us as we continue our special coverage of the arguments before the supreme court that we brought to you live on a
way. what s interesting here is that it puts a little bit of additional pressure on judge canon. if she s at all inclined to slow walk this prosecution, she may find herself in the embarrassing position of having state judges want to move in front of her. it is 2:00 p.m. in new york city. also in miami. thank you for staying with us for our special coverage. president trump has just arrived at the miami federal courthouse where he will voluntarily surrender then be arrested on 37 counts on the alleged mishanding of classified documents. mr. trump will be represented at today s proceedings by attorneys and will appear alongside his personal aide and co-defendant, walt nauta. a former navy military aide who was his aide in the white house. went with him and became a private citizen. accused of helping donald trump move boxes of documents. we expect mr. trump to enter a not guilty plea. he s said that before u.s. magistrate judge john goodman. he said he would. still has tim
ex-president to have the fbi execute a search warrant on his home. trump posted just before 7:00 p.m. last night that mar-a-lago was, quote, currently under siege, raided and occupied by a large group of fbi agents. adding, quote, they even broke into my safe. a source familiar with the search tells nbc news the investigation is related to the transfer of classified government documents from the white house to mar-a-lago. the national archives reported in february that 15 boxes of documents were improperly taken to the president s florida estate when he left office. at the time, the agency said it had asked the justice department to investigate. a source familiar with the situation tells nbc news, boxes of documents were seized during yesterday s fbi search. trump s attorney released a statement claiming the former president and his legal team have been cooperative with the fbi and doj, quote, every step of the way. trump slammed the search as, quote, prosecutorial misconduct
released by hamas, after a last minute agreement to extend the truce by one day with the clock running out to renew the deal. could this latest attack, could it complicate future deals down the line? in a moment, i m going to speak to former secretary of defense, leon panetta. and moments from now, secretary blinken expected to speak after a whirlwind day of diplomacy in israel and the west bank, as idf tanks wait near the israeli-gaza border. i want to begin on the ground, with breaking news with nbc s david noriega. good to talk to you. we have new information about the man whose story we shared with folks ten minutes or so ago. what more can you tell us? . hi, yeah, so liat stzilli was the u.s. citizen released with the agreement we have been all been following for the last week or so. when we saw liat released yesterday, we were all under the impression that her husband aviv was being held captive. however, we heard earlier today that there was information that he had