i m jake taper on the campaign trail with governor desantis in south carolina. today the world learned donald trump is a target in the criminal investigation into 2020 election interference. this morning trump revealed he received a target letter from jack smith. the special counsel has not commented but cnn confirmed trump s attorney got the letter on sunday. it s notable that trump did not go public until today. the same day as a key pretrial hearing for the special counsel s other probe into trump s mishandling of classified documents. trump s attorneys and his indicted aide, walt nauta were sen entering the federal courthouse in florida. just a short time ago prosecutors are set to make their arguments in front of the presiding judge in the case for the first time, judge aileen cannon told all parties to be ready to discuss a specific trial date. we are tracking all of these fast moving details from all angles. let s begin with this target letter trump received fr
america s most famou presidential statements. today, wow they are going to arrest me. can t believe this i happening. president trump, will you come speak to us the ex president surrenders he is arrested but. fingerprinted. criminally charged with 34 felonies in a manhattan courthouse. these are felony crimes i new york state no matter who you are. prosecutors say he ran a criminal scheme to conceal damaging information, unlawful activity from american voter before the 2016 election former president trump plead not guilty he is frustrated. he is upset. tonight the substance of the case. the people versus donald trump joy reid, already melbourne, alex wagner stephanie bowl all here for msnbc special coverage of the first ever criminal indictment of a forme president of the united states good evening and thank you for being with us here tonight i am rachel maddow here at msnbc headquarters in new york along with lawrence o donnel and joy reid, and nicole wallace
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thank you, manu. i want to bring in michael f fanone a former d.c. metro police officer badly injured responding to the january 6th attack. what s your reaction to the news that trump is now officially a target of this criminal investigation surrounding what happened on january 6th? i think the letter just brings to light what we all or at least more americans who are grounded in reality saw as the inev inevitable outcome of investigation or what we hoped for. my first reaction was better late than never. trump is heading to a campaign event later today in iowa, how concerned are you potentially about his rhetoric that s going to be emerging? i mean, i m not in the law enforcement profession anymore, but as somebody who has felt the
As to whether or not you can stay a mainstream picked figur with electoral sway while also playing footsie with fascism while also encouraging the mos violent extremists there is real into turn there. everyone at this table has covered all the ways that ou system doesn t work. and yet there is a sliver here and it may be growing, of wher the system is working. because some of thos extremists you mentioned wer convicted. sedition is a convicted crime. some people are serving long sentences,, even as we cover those who got away there has been talk about th old donald trump, and some ide of teflon. well, anyone living in reality saw a lot of that tough lawn strip today, if it was eve there. and it was a long trip for people like weisselberg. he couldn t keep his money out of rikers. even when he was president there were a lot of people that, later he tried to use th pardon power, manafort went to prison we know that bannon he went through a run on thi the other night, rachel.