types. the never-ending courtship of the far-right maga caucus. dan pfeiffer, claire mccaskill, thank you both for closing it out on this big, historic night of news. that does it for our show, we will see you again tomorrow. now, it is time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. r good evening, alex. we re gonna continue covering what we re obviously gonna be covering for quite awhile. thank you, alex. i ll be watching. the criminal case of the united states of america, versus donald j trump, is underway tonight. in florida. where a sealed indictment has charged the former president the seven count indictment. the new york times is reporting tonight that the charges include willfully retaining national defense secrets and violations of the espionage act. making false statements, and an obstruction of justice conspiracy, according people familiar with the matter. donald trump has been ordered to surrender for arrest in processing an arraign
united states of america versus donald j trump, is underway tonight. in florida. where a sealed indictment has charged the former president the seven count indictment. the new york times is reporting tonight that the charges include willfully retaining national defense secrets and violations of the espionage act. making false statements, and an obstruction of justice conspiracy, according people familiar with the matter. donald trump has been ordered to surrender for arrest in processing an arraignment in the federal court in miami on tuesday at three pm. four months after donald trump left the white house, the national archives said their first letter to donald trump. on may 6th, 2021, asking, politely, for the return of documents that belong to the united states government. nothing was returned. on january 17th, 2022, an archive contract arrived at mar-a-lago to load 15 boxes into a truck and transport them 1000 miles north to the national facilities. on may 11th, of 2022 l
this and dealing with it, we had this night in mind. in the back of our minds, it looked like on that night that this was where this would lead to. bradley moss, i want to go back to the trump defense. i want to give it all the air we can give it to try to find if there s anything there. you mentioned tim parlatore last night on this program, a former trump defense lawyer, he left in the middle of may from the documents defense team. he made references twice to photocopies, which you just mentioned imanaga go. let s listen to exactly what he said, i want to get your reaction to it. simply the fact that has a classification working on, if it does have a classification working on it, doesn t make it automatically some kind of contraband. it has to be national defense information.
looked like on that night that this was where this would lead to. bradley moss, i want to go back to the trump defense. i want to give it all the air we can give it to try to find if there s anything there. you mentioned tim parlatore last night on this program, a former trump defense lawyer, he left in the middle of may from the documents defense team. he made references twice to photocopies, which you just mentioned imanaga go. let s listen to exactly what he said, i want to get your reaction to it. simply the fact that has a classification working on, if it does have a classification working on it, doesn t make it automatically some kind of contraband. it has to be national defense information. one. to, under the presidential records act, we re talking about original documents. not a single one of those marked documents are originals. they re all copies. every single one of them. brad, what was your reaction