We today uphold our solemn responsibility to ensure that everyone stands equal before the law. We have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone their evidence can be tested in court and judged by a jury of citizen sdpgs we look at the fact, we look at the law and we bring charges. For the fourth time in as many months donald trump, the former president of the United States, is facing a criminal indictment. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is tuesday, august 15th. Lets dive right into the latest indictment for the former president. The charges are from Fulton County, georgia, where trump and 18 others were named in a sweeping 41count indictment targeting alleged attempts to overturn the states 2020 Election Results, Fulton County District Attorney fani willis announced the charges just before midnight. The states role in this process is essential to the functioning of our democracy. Georgia like every state has laws that allow those who believe that results
Tonight on 360, the former president chooses to be arraigned in person in washington as the governments case in his defense take shape. We will look ahead to tomorrow s Court Appearance with former Trump National security advisor john bolton. Later, trumps trial judge, Tanya Chutkan, what we know about her history with former president. And desantis is that she has already given other january 6th defendants. And in, ukraine a remarkable rescue. Ukrainian soldiers safe with the help of a drone, which you delivered medical supplies and water. Good evening, tomorrow, the former president of the United States will make his second appearance in a Federal Court as an alleged felon. The first was in miami in the documents case. Until donald trump in the 2000 since George Washington was inaugurated, no hold or as the office has had to do that, even once. But tomorrow afternoon, four if the schedule holds, the 44th president since George Washington will enter a Federal Courthouse in washington
pressure arizona governor juicy to overturn the presidential election results. saying that if enough fraudulent votes could be found, it would overcome trump s narrow loss in arizona. we are learning about the content of this conversation for the first time. to already know trump and doocy spoke after the 2020 election. fact. trump tried to call doocy while he was certifying the election for biden on official government livestream. on november 20th, 30 30 2020, d.c. was signing papers to end the election as he did in front of the press. you have to listen closely, you can hear hail to chief as he reaches into the pocket to silence the call. the ring town is spectacular. do you see did eventually speak to trump, didn t recorded the call. we have some idea what it might sound like because trump, we ll, made a lot of calls in multiple states. trying to overturn the results of this election. for example, here s a recording of trump calling georgia s then chief investigator from
election, we re still uncovering more attempts by donald trump to overturn results. according to a new report in the washington post, president trump tried to pressure doug ducey to overturn the election results, saying if now fraudulent votes could be found, it could overcome trump s narrow loss in arizona. we re learning about the content of this conversation for the first time. we already knew trump and ducey spoke after the 2020 election. trump tried to call ducey while he was certifying the election for biden on an official government live stream. on 2020, ducey was literally signing the papers to end the election, seated in front of the press. but you have to listen carefully. you can make out hail to the chief as ducey reaches into his pocket to silence the call. the ring tone is just spectacular. ducey did eventually speak to trump. did not record the call. but we have some idea what it might sound like because trump made a lot of calls in multiple states, tryi
because together, we rise. and on that note, i wish you all a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. the bread and butter of conservatives in the conservative media for years now has been hyping up an investigation into president biden s adult son hunter biden. but it never seem to end. the investigation, which was open in 2018, under trump s justice department, has been used as a black box of sorts by republicans. they use it to create a symmetry that didn t really exist between trump s alleged crimes, and what they speculated was the crime ridden biden family. and so long as this case was open, and the investigation was behind closed doors, they could really make it whatever they wanted it to be. and even though that was the case even though the republicans have been dining out on the hunter investigation for years, they also have been up in arms about how it h