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hello and thank you for joining us. it is 10 a.m. eastern. im ana cabrera with jose diaz vallart. special breaking news coverage today. for a man with a lengthy and varied history of high stakes court battles, this will be a legal saga unlike anything donald trump has encountered before. the former president has now been federally indicted on seven criminal charges related to his handling of classified documents. nbc news has confirmed one of the charges is related to the espionage act...

a bedrock principle of the department of justice and our nations commitment to the rule of law sets a an example for the world. we have one set of laws in this country and they apply to everyone. applying those laws, collecting facts, thats what determines the outcome of an investigation. nothing more, nothing less. >> the words of rachel math maddow, stunningly simple words in both the indictment and from behind the podium. it was the first time we as an american public have ever hear...

of presidential immunity. then the baseless inquiry. house republicans have moved and impeachment inquiry into president balking that isnt supported by evidence. and the most part, that no. as well as justice for two georgia election workers. ruby freeman and shaye -- when 100 and $48 million and their long awaited legal battle with ruby giuliani. lets get started. good evening. special counsel, jack smith, is calling on the disgraced ex presidents bluff. this week, the supreme court g...

with republicans like hannity finally realizing that the partys toxic, regressive, authoritarian policies have sparked a voter backlash. also tonight, new reporting that donald trump almost certainly knew that a president cannot declassify documents just by stuffing them in a box and hauling them to the old golf resort, as repeatedly has claimed. plus, elon musks off the rails interview. the man who runs one of the biggest social media sites raises alarms with toxic comments about ...

in the actual trial to explain, defend, or perhaps confess to why they aired live in many ways that led to or softened the ground for an insurrection. that is why this is a media story, but far more than a media story. the evidence has shown many knew trump was lying tatting election, but they, quote, endorsed it any way, and that word comes from murdoch himself. the reason this is in court is not because of the january 6th committee or congress or media matters, which is a fox kind of...

Welcome to a special twohour edition of the beat. Im katie phang. Were nearing the end of the first Criminal Trial of a former u. S. President donald trump. Next week the case could be in the hand of the jury. Before that happens, Michael Cohen will be back on the Witness Stand Monday for a third day of cross examination by trumps defense attorney todd blanche. The defenses focus so far has been to try and portray the states key witness as a serial liar, someone who cannot be trusted and who is ...

Breaking news welcome to the lead on jake tapper, right now, right this minute. I knew witness in Donald Trumps Hush Money Cover Up Trial. The prosecution just called its third witness. His name is gary pharaoh. Gary pharaoh is a banker who worked with Michael Cohen at the time that the payments were made to former playboy model, Karen Mcdougal and porn actress and director Stormy Daniels, both of whom alleged romantic entanglements of sorts with mr. Donald trump. This comes after rona graph was...

Classified information, that she made a point of saying she didnt think at this juncture that it was necessary to take the election into account. of course that could change. and because shes a judge, she has a lot of discretion to make these calls. theyre effectively unreviewable if the prosecution -- not the sort of thing you can really take to an appellate court unless it becomes egregious. so now i think garrett is right to say we are looking at not the final trial setting. this is just an a...

The man accused of beating a woman and setting her on fire could get the death penalty.

Administration of justice in this case. >> joyce, talk to me about the timeline here, how aileen cannons timeline potentially complicate things for fulton county d.a. fani willis who, as we all, know has also signaled an august timetable for possible charges against trump. >> right, so, if fani willis does file her charges in august, now we will have three different judges in three different jurisdictions, all competing to get the same defendant into their courtroom. but, you know, as we have di...