people. this is now the second indictment that trump is facing since he went in office after manhattan prosecutors charged with 34 felony counts earlier this year over alleged hush money payments. and a post on his truth announcing the indictment, trump wrote the correct biden administration has informed by attorneys that i ve been indicted. i am an innocent man. tonight, trump posted a formative video repeatedly claiming that investigation is a hoax. politically motivated. they can t stop because its election interference at the highest level there is never been anything like what has happened, they figured that the way that they would stop us is by using what is called that s what this is. it s wolf warfare for the law. it s called election interference. they re trying to destroy the reputation. and they can try to win the election. joining us now is msnbc colleagues, ari melber and lawrence o donnell, also with us is laura jarrett, nbc news senior legal corresponde
to the teflon don. josh marshall hugo lowell and andrew weissmann. appreciate it. that s all in alex on this thursday night. wagner tonight starts right now, good evening, alex. chris, what a thursday. accountability, i think that is the phrase of the day. accountability. yes. again, lots of things it seemed here to for unthinkable, becoming think-able as the other theme of the last few years. in some, ways unthinkable to donald trump. as much as he knew this was coming, now that it s happened, he s in a different league. he has made history, not the kind of history that i think you want to make. thank, you my friend, as always. you bet. thank you to you at home for joining us this evening. nbc news can now report that former president donald trump has been indicted in the special counsel s investigation into his alleged mishandling of classified documents. the indictment was filed in federal district court in miami. trump has been summoned to appear in federal
remains under seal. trump says it is all political persecution. republican lawmakers say it is simple and wrong. the manhattan district attorney alvin bragg has had it out for trump all along. i said from day one this is a political stunt. what s behind all this? hatred. this is absolutely a political witch hunt through and through. this is the kind of witch hunt that can only serve to tell people in the future if it works, you should try to indict people to keep them from winning elections. you are talking about a misdemeanor that gets bootstrapped onto election law in a way i ve never seen. democrats know it has nothing to do with the laws. they are sending a message. harris: kevin mccarthy is vowing the house will hold alvin bragg and his unprecedented abuse of power accountable. and we have live pictures outside mar-a-lago, florida, where former president trump s sporters are gathering. that s his home in that town. national correspondent bryan llenas, how a
happens in florida? it s a state that trump won, palm beach county is not a county that he won, but it went more narrow lead to biden than, for example, washington, d.c.. trump is going to use this to inflame a lot of tensions, as he always does. he continues to fund-raise on, it as you said, the republicans will close ranks on this. are you concerned that because this is the government, this is not an individual district attorney, at the end of his or her probe, this is the federal government accusing the former president, who would like to i m not at all concerned for how smoothly this would go, the most violent trump supporters are in prison already, others so inclined, watching that happen. it s smart and up a lot of people. people think that there are so many more trump supporters in and around miami than manhattan,
donald trump. your expectation of what happens in florida? it s a state that trump won, palm beach county is not a county that he won, but it went more narrow lead to biden than, for example, washington, d. c.. trump is going to use this to inflame a lot of tensions, as he always does. he continues to fund-raise on, it as you said, the republicans will close ranks on this. are you concerned that because this is the government, this is not an individual district attorney, at the end of his or her probe, this is the federal government accusing the former president, who would like to i m not at all concerned for how smoothly this would go, the most violent trump supporters are in prison already, others so inclined, watching that happen. it s smart and up a lot of people. people think that there are so many more trump supporters in and around miami than manhattan, and that might be statistically true, however, on the island of manhattan, there are hundreds of thousands of people who