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day that will go down in american history as unimaginable, inconceivable, unthinkable, and also equally, hey, what took you so long? i am rachel maddow here at msnbc headquarters with joy reid, chris hayes, ari melber. we are gonna be joining you with special coverage by lawrence or diana o donnell, stephanie ruhle, alex wagner, jen psaki, plus all the legal experts and reporters we ve come to depend on so much for our coverage of this still unfolding fairly epic story. by now we all know the basics of what is going on. what s an indictment? well, that s the prosecution laying out its charges against a defendant. that happened last week. when the public got our first view of the unsealed federal indictment of former president trump on friday. 37 federal felony counts. 31 of them under the espionage act. what s an arraignment? that s what happened today. the defendant is brought to court and essentially introduced into the legal system as a defendant. for most, that mean ....
Somehow trump s going to retain his standing generally with the party which he has thus far. but, man, i don t know call him again at the end of august or october or november. document dated may 13, 2018, concerning white house intelligence briefing related to foreign countries. document dated october 14, 2019, concerning military capabilities of a foreign country. untitled document concerning nuclear weaponry of the united states. i mean when the facts of this case are adjudicated and to joyce s point we don t know how much access the american public is going to have that, whether there s going to be an audio broadcast to the courtroom, but if it gets to the point where the specific counts, because there s 31 counts and named documents, and a whole bunch were special access programs, human sources. some of these documents are so sensitive, we re not allowed today know what the classification markings on them are. when it gets to that, this whole idea of, oh, his bathroom has a ....