Person arraignment in the maralago documents case. Well tell you what happened when his two codefendants showed up in court. Plus new reporting from propublica about Clarence Thomas and his wealthy network of friends who allegedly financed his luxurious gifts and travel. And we begin this morning with a devastating wildfires in hawaii. At least 36 people have died as the flames rip through the island with crews in the skies and on the ground urgently battling three active fires. The flames have destroyed homes, wreaked havoc on businesses and forced thousands to evacuate. Residents seeking safety are flocking to airports and shelters. My family is thinking of just leaving the island completely. We have nothing but the clothes on our backs right now. Everything is gone. Some had to jump into the ocean to escape dangerous flames, swallowed more 2,000 acres of land. Want you to see Satellite Image that captures what the town of lahaina looked like, a Historic Town before and after the bla
iowa caucuses is donald trump as you see what could be most terribly described as a unique strategy and his closing arguments to voters, with a link with john mccain making more headlines with his plans for a second term. one of his supporters in congress is already safe shave may not certify the 2024 results before a single ballot is cast. what about 2024? what about 2024? we will see if this is illegal and valid election. what we re seeing so far is that s democrats are so desperate they re trying to remove president trump from the ballot. just to be very clear, i don t hear you say committed to certify the election results. will you only commit to certify the results of the president trump once? if former president trump wins? it means that they re constitutional. what we saw in 2020 was unconstitutional. meanwhile, his challengers are looking for any signs of hope that they could pull off the impossible, and upsets the former president is also facing a busy le
providing that the united states reserves and retains complete ownership, possession and control of presidential records. for more than a year, and despite multiple opportunities to remedied situation and return materials that rightly belong to the federal government, donald trump refused to cooperate time and time again. as we know now from the indictment unsealed by the department of justice yesterday, the former president and his personal valet, and now codefendants, walt nauta have both been indicted. trump along faces 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information, and one count of false statements. both men are also charged with one count each of his conspiracy to obstruct justice, withholding a document, corruptly concealing a document, concealing and documents in a federal investigation, and a scheme to conceal. not to has also in charge for making false statements. the government alleges in his indictment that it s not only a passive bystander that go
bizarre and depressing and i would love to think that this is purely let s hope, all right, good to see roe, thank you guys. meantime, of course, no shortage of angles to the trump and vitamins. we re unpacking all of these next, but first, this washington post editorial, a shower full of secret documents elites to a solid trump indictment. and then there s this, trump denied having nuclear secrets, the feds say heated, and of course, a look ahead with trump indicted, officials prepare for a tempest, his court appearance the expectations for tuesday, all this next hour. all this next hour as i bet you all a very good day, from msnbc world headquarters here in new york, welcome everyone to alex witt reports. we begin with the breaking news in about 74 hours, former president donald trump will surrender himself to in miami, as he prepares for the second arraignment in two months. today, trump is heading the campaign trail, making stops in georgia and north carolina, where
involved in the death of rayshard brooks in atlanta in 2020. a live report coming up. we have a lot going on here this afternoon. i m hallie jackson in washington. i want to start with our nbc news news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian and former prosecutor and legal analyst tally winestein. the new letter that nbc news has gotten their hands on, the national archives had it, posted it, to mr. trump s attorneys where they found more than 100 documents marked as classified. talk about this letter and what changed between january when some of these docs were recovered to this summer and this past month? just how long the justice department has known that very sensitive, highly classified documents have been stored at mar-a-lago. this letter was written in may, is that the national archives found documents marked sensitive compartmented information and sap, special access programs, among the 15 boxes of documents that trump folks turned over in january whe