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 in box
the whole country a service. by helping illustrate the confusion and the denial that a lot of sexual victims feel in those first moments after an assault. she s going to be a really important guest to hear from tonight, lawrence, it s great to have her. yeah, alex, last night, on this program, we hand harvard law professor lawrence tribe. and i alerted the audience to the fact that is very likely that president biden would be paying attention to what professor tribe said about the debt ceiling and the 14th amendment on this program last night. and sure enough today, when president biden was asked about it he said, i have been considering the 14th amendment, and a man i have enormous respect for, larry tribe, who advised me for a long time, thinks that would be legitimate. i m not saying he was watching the show. i think you could say that. i think you can say that. i think that means you are allowed to say that. i don t know. i don t know. i think you deserve it.
uncovered in multiple federa and state investigations had it s the most damning piece of evidence against donald trum and his ongoing legal battles, remains this phone call. so, look, all i want to d is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more tha we have. fellas, i need 11,000 votes. give me a break. then president trump, pressuring georgia secretary o state, to find him 11,000 vote in order to overturn the election result in that state. the phone call remains shocking, no matter how many times you hear it. but the call was over an hour-long. and there are other parts of that call that prosecutors may now be taking a closer look at for instance, there is thi part so, dead people voted and i think the number is clos to 5000 people and they went to obituaries. they went to all sorts o methods to come up with an accurate number. and a minimum is close to abou 5000 voters. that was president trum insisting, again, to the georgia secretary of state that t
just moments ago, governor ron desantis revealed that all of lee county is out of water. and here in fort myers with the sun now up, you can see the level of wreckage residents are gramming with in the wake of this brutal storm. i m just going to give you a piture of a random sm of the brutality of this storm. here on the marina, there was a couple shops a little b and b getting ready to set up shop above it. the wine bottles that were stored in here are perfect. none of them broke. and yet when you see the intensity of it, talk about randomness, you see the bed. you have the mattress and the box spring. they are not separated. but the building is blown out. is and here is what is just gives you a real clear idea of the ferocity of the storm. the water and the wind. this is a 50-foot yacht. it was docked over here. it ended up on top of that suv. it didn t clear the power lines, but look where it ended pup. and do you see that big ship over there? that one was docked behind u
hello and a warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states address around the world. i m bianca nobilo live from london. max foster has the day off. just ahead for you on cnn newsroom live from london, this is cnn newsroom with mox foster and bianca nobilo. and it is friday, december 8, 9:00 a.m. in london. first round of caucus voting in iowa is just a few week away. and there are legal headwinds as the election season heats up. president biden s son hunter is now facing multiple federal tax charges, a fact likely to dog the president. and former president trump has numerous federal and state court cases that will stretch well into next year and will almost certainly interfere with his campaign schedule. the justice department says hunter biden could face up to 17 years in prison if convicted of the tax charges. the investigation into the president s son was on the verge of being resolved in july when a plea deal fell apart. evan perez has the detail