democratic candidate for the united states senate in arizona gets tonight s last word. the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now. tonight, we are officially one week from the iowa caucuses. president biden, making the case against donald trump. as a republican front runner continues to push lies about the last election. then, looking ahead to the former presidents busy legal calendar as he chooses to spend another day in court. wayne lapierre appears to opening statements in the nra s civil corruption trial. the impact this case could have on the group s political strength as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. good evening, once again, i m stephanie ruhle, live as msnbc headquarters right here in new york city. it is exactly one week until the caucuses. the first major nominating contest of the 2024 campaign. it will be a critical test for the twice impeached, four times indicted former president donald j trump and his fight to go for our republican front
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
today the justice department arrested and or rain donald trump. don trump is now been criminally indicted more times than he was ever elected. related to the alleged miss handling of classified documents. he has a pled not guilty. there was a weighty mood in that courtroom, you could feel that this was a historic day walking. in mr. trump sat stone faced. arms tightly folded across his chest. everything we witnessed today was self inflicted by donald trump. he literally is obsessed with the boxes. why was he so obsessed with the boxes that you want to take them on vacation? i m not gonna start commenting on the various candidates that we have running for president. it is a daunting situation for the former president, were only at the beginning. it tells me that he has a viable defense. i did everything right and they indicted me. why does not trump realize that he has the right to remain silent? good evening once again i m stephanie ruhle.
issue could be as early as june. the good, news staff for the president congressional leaders are meeting this weekend. they re all trying to make progress resolving the crisis as the june 1st deadline nears. also breaking today, customs and border patrol is reporting a drop in the number of migrants crossing the border following the lifting of title 42 restrictions. officials from coast to coast have been mobilizing to prepare for more migrants to arrive, the two dhs officials tell nbc news, between 75 and 8000 migrants compare that to 10,000 thursday, 11,000 on wednesday, another 11,000 on tuesday. we re gonna have live reports in just a moment. meanwhile, before talking about the debt ceiling, the president addressed graduates at howard university today, telling them this. today i got to howard, to continue the work to deem the soul of this nation. i see the future. that s not a hyperbole. we can finally resolve the ongoing question about who we are as a nation. and pu
midnight on the east coast i am stephanie ruhle and we ar continuing our breaking news coverage of the indictment o former president donald trump. the grand jury in manhatta indicted him earlier today making trump the first forme president to ever face crimina charges in our nation history. those jurors have been hearing evidence of hush money payments, made to adult film star stormy daniels during the 201 presidential campaign. trump s current lawyers issued a statement saying he did no commit any crime and they plan to vigorously fight this political prosecution. one trump attorney tells nbc trump is expected to b arraigned on tuesday in ne york let s bring in our panel o experts to break it all down simone sanders townsend, msnbc host and former chie spokesperson for kamala harris harry lippman, former u.s. attorney and deputy assistan journey jonathan allen, senior analyst reporter for nbc news. and tim o brien, bloomberg opinion senior columnist and the man who wrote