hey everybody, good afternoon. i m yasmin vossoughian. donald trump is in for the fight of his life. the former president faces a tuesday arraignment on 37 criminal counts, involving his refusal to turn over classified documents that never should have been in his possession. this hour, he s gonna be taking his defense public within appearance in georgia. as his gop political rivals tiptoe around the story. in addition to the politics of, this we are going to dive deeply into the substance of the allegations in the indictment. it is a treasure trove of damning material from photos that showed documents being hoarded and bedrooms, bathrooms, and even the mar-a-lago ballroom. conversations where trump himself waves around top secret material as well as evidence, in which he apparently tries to get his own lawyers to lie to the feds. looking for the documents. we will get into all of this coming up. we begin with the new information that we re learning with the unsealing of the h
predecessor. cracks it is a general sense of degradation and neglect the president inherited. cracks critics on capitol hill insisted the buck stops with the current commander-in-chief. what is the commander-in-chief he is responsible for what he and his administration does. then, trying it makes veiled threats to the u.s. as taiwan s president visits with house speaker in california. the friendship between the kids of taiwan is a matter of importance. spacek since i one house of foreign affairs committee asked if client china invaded taiwan it would certainly be on the table. shannon: will get reaction from centers on both sides of the out republican lindsey graham and democrat ben cardin. graham and cardin exclusively on fox news sunday . plus. 34 false statements made to cover up other crimes. the only crime i have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it breaks we will ask her sunday panel about former president trump s histo
good evening from washington. i m michael steele in for chris hayes and there s a lot to get to tonight. including some really big developments in the many criminal investigations into donald trump, but i need to start with a question for today s republican party. what the hell is wrong with you? today s house maga republicans took an official party leadership sanctions field trip to visit the january six insurrectionists who they call political prisoners. this is just one step and exposing what s going on, making sure that we have the right information and really listening to our constituents. we hear about the jails regularly when we go back home and the american people are very concerned about some of the folks who are here. so we re listening to them and hear on their behalf. congresswoman, i hate to break it to you, but you don t have the right information. if you think the american people want you to waste your energy on the violent insurrectionists mob. in fact,
there s gonna be a big fight over, that that s a lot of this evidence. a huge and lengthy fight, there s no way this is coming in 60 days. even before any judge. there s gonna be a huge fight over the 31 classified documents. but jack smith wants to introduce as support for the 31 espionage act charges. i anticipate that he will ask to substitute a non classified thing for the actual classified documents. so he doesn t have to expose it in court or show it to jurors who don t have security clearances. a whole series of pretrial hearings which will play out behind closed doors with sealed filings over each of those documents. trump s team will say, no, we have to see the actual thing in court for me to get a fair trial. she can take a long time, working through that. potentially, suppress she will suppress that evidence, but if she rules that checks with can t have a substitution, maybe she ll decide to drop the charge that particular document was based on, rather than risk exposing.
hey everybody, good afternoon. i m yasmin vossoughian. donald trump is in for the fight of his life. the former president faces a tuesday arraignment on 37 criminal counts, involving his refusal to turn over classified documents that never should have been in his possession. this hour, he s gonna be taking his defense public within appearance in georgia. as his gop political rivals tiptoe around the story. in addition to the politics of, this we are going to dive deeply into the substance of the allegations in the indictment. it is a treasure trove of damning material from photos that showed documents being hoarded and bedrooms, bathrooms, and even the mar-a-lago ballroom. conversations where trump himself waves around top secret material as well as evidence, in which he apparently tries to get his own lawyers to lie to the feds. looking for the documents. we will get into all of this coming up. we begin with the new information that we re learning