Colleagues alicica menendez, jonathan capehart, ayman mohyeldin, symone sanderstownsend, and with us from miami, katie phang. The twice impeached, and now twice indicted donald trump has become the first ex president to Face Criminal Charges from the federal government. Over the next two hours, my colleagues and i, along with some special guests, are going to break down the Justice Departments case against the former commanderinchief. A case that we saw for the first time just yesterday. When the bombshell, 37 count indictment was unsealed. The indictment, which also names the trump aide and valet, walt nauta, as his coconspirator. Outlined criminal charges related to more than 100 classified documents that federal agents recovered from trumps maralago resort last august. Trump faces 31 counts of violating the Espionage Act, through willful retention of classified records. He faces another six counts stemming from his alleged efforts to impede the investigation. Nauta it was also charg
recognizing the january six investigation. renewed focus by jack smith s investigators on a 2020 oval office meeting where trump allies allegedly skimmed what the former president about seizing voting machines and overturning the election. also tonight, where s prigozhin? no word from the wagner mercenary leader supposedly ex out to belarus for leading a mutiny against the kremlin. as he returned to the motherland? and what will vladimir putin due to him there? and marjorie taylor greene, is she too much, even pretty conservative freedom caucus. a report that she may have been boarded up by her fellow republicans. we begin tonight with the breaking news, what multiple sources are telling cnn about that turbulent december 18th 2020 oval office meeting, involving the former president on the disgraced general michael flynn, lawyer sydney powell and former dot com ceo. our kaitlan collins is part of the reporting team that has the exclusive. she joins me here. what have you learn
is going to be a permanent member of this team. we ll see. and so that is what they re working on now. and kaitlan, judge cannon, we should point out, she s a trump appointee. she did a trump-friendly ruling that was overturned months ago. i know that there are people on the prosecution team who are wary of her. how does the trump team view her? do they think that she s going to be an asset? they re thrilled. i mean, they could not be happier to have her on their team or to have her overseeing this i mean. she is a trump appointee. she was picked in the days after he lost the 2020 election. that s obviously not a comment on whether or not she s a good judge or a bad judge or indifferent. but they re thrilled because they saw how she was what her rulings were when they went to her for the special master case last fall. that was when she got overruled by an appeals court in a pretty embarrassing fashion for a judge because basically they said she was giving trump specia
colleagues olamon, as don t offend k mark, a man smiling sanders-townsend with us from miami, katie phang. the twice impeached and now twice indicted donald trump has become the first ex president to face criminal charges from the federal government. over the next two hours, my colleagues and i along with some special guests are gonna break down the justice department s case against the former commander in chief. a case that we saw for the first time just yesterday when the bombshell 37 count indictment was unsealed. the indictment which also names the trump aide and valet, walt nauta, as his coconspirator. outlined criminal charges related to more than 100 classified documents that federal agents recovered from trump s mar-a-lago resort last august. trump faces 31 counts of violating the espionage act, through willful retention of classified records. he faces another six counts stemming from his alleged efforts to impede the investigation. nauta it was also charged with si
colleagues alicica menendez, jonathan capehart, ayman mohyeldin, symone sanders-townsend, and with us from miami, katie phang. the twice impeached, and now twice indicted donald trump has become the first ex president to face criminal charges from the federal government. over the next two hours, my colleagues and i, along with some special guests, are going to break down the justice department s case against the former commander-in-chief. a case that we saw for the first time just yesterday. when the bombshell, 37 count indictment was unsealed. the indictment, which also names the trump aide and valet, walt nauta, as his coconspirator. outlined criminal charges related to more than 100 classified documents that federal agents recovered from trump s mar-a-lago resort last august. trump faces 31 counts of violating the espionage act, through willful retention of classified records. he faces another six counts stemming from his alleged efforts to impede the investigation. nauta