involved in the death of rayshard brooks in atlanta in 2020. a live report coming up. we have a lot going on here this afternoon. i m hallie jackson in washington. i want to start with our nbc news news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian and former prosecutor and legal analyst tally winestein. the new letter that nbc news has gotten their hands on, the national archives had it, posted it, to mr. trump s attorneys where they found more than 100 documents marked as classified. talk about this letter and what changed between january when some of these docs were recovered to this summer and this past month? just how long the justice department has known that very sensitive, highly classified documents have been stored at mar-a-lago. this letter was written in may, is that the national archives found documents marked sensitive compartmented information and sap, special access programs, among the 15 boxes of documents that trump folks turned over in january whe
where oral arguments will begin in his presidential immunity defense. there won t be cameras in the courtroom but audio would be livestreamed on the court s youte ge. then on thursday, expected to appear for closing arguments in his new york civil fraud trial, and judge engoron could issue a written decision in the following weeks. i want to bring in a criminal defense attorney and msnbc legal analyst, and msnbc news justice reporter ryan reilly as well, also author of sedition hunters, how january 6th broke the system. ryan, give us the expectations for tuesday first. the presidential immunity one is the one that the supreme court rejected taking up immediately. ultimately, that decision that is, that the appeals court makes in this case could be the last word on this. it could ultimately go back potentially to the judge, judge chutkan, who s taking this case immediately. the trial date for march is still technically on the books although all the deadlines have been suspended and th
notifying trump. the company was fined $350,000. trump responded in a post on his social media site calling it, quote, a major hit on my civil rights. with us now to talk more about this, katie phang, attorney and host of the katie phang show here on msnbc, and msnbc news justice reporter ryan reilly and christie greenburg, former deputy chief of the southern district of new york s criminal division. katie, what happened in court today? basically you were expecting to see an arraignment, we have seen this happen with walt nauta before, his own arraignment was recessed on two occasions for him to get local counsel, same thing with carlos de oliveira, he showed up without outside counsel, he was in the process of getting local counsel. a gentleman who is a local criminal defense attorney steps up to the podium and says we still have some details to iron
the indictment, it would be an extremely powerful indictments. this obstruction of justice justice conspiracy electric when donald trump and his valet and butler, walt nauta. it is also just mind-boggling, the extent to which donald trump tried to hide from the department of justice and from his own lawyers, his knowledge and understanding of the classified documents. and then we learned so much for this indictment. remember, there was a lot of people who said, well it s not like the president packed his own boxes when he left the white house. yes he did, according to this indictment, he actually part some of his own boxes. so, professor ryan goodman says he has looked at every espionage act in history, and this is the most egregious fact pattern he has ever seen. ali. thanks very much for your continued reporting on this, we always appreciated it, and we see news justice and intelligence correspondents, can delaney and, in miami. if for more on this, let s bring in mary mccord,
here on msnbc, and kendall enion, nbc s news justice and mental correspondent. welcome again to you both, can, give us a sense of what s in the indictment, and what charges the former president is up against. what are the expectations there in miami? a, alex, it s a 38 count indictment, 37 counts against former president, 49 pages. reads in some ways like a movie script, but legal experts say it s an incredibly strong and detailed case. really on three fronts, the willful possession of classified materials, donald trump had all those things that you mentioned before the crown jewels of american intelligence that he wasn t supposed to have. but also alleging that he lied about it, and that he disseminated, that he showed classified material on two instances to people who weren t entitled to see it, and then that he conspired to obstruct justice with his eighth and valet not to. that s something that s