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Good day. i'm chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. it's a trial that will test our legal and political systems in ways never seen before. tomorrow, when we expect former president donald trump to walk into a d.c. courthouse, it will set off a challenge to america's very identity, the constitution, and the public's faith in the rule of law. special counsel jack smith sven touring into that uncharted territory by charging a former president with crimes against the nation that he once led. >> the attack on our nation's capitol on january 6th, 2021, was an unprecedented assau...

America and the alleged crimes of donald trump. central to the indictment is the special counsel's assertion that trump knew that he lost the election and pushed lies to stay in office any way. >> describe d in the indictment it was fuelled by lies. lies by the defendant, targeted at obstructing a bedrock function of the u.s. government and a a nation's process of collecting, counting and certifying the results of the presidential election. >> we start our coverage with katelyn polantz at the federal court, which is your home away from home at this point. what do we know about what to expect i...

Syndicate. more and more evidence is coming every single day. this is not going to deter us from our duty which is to investigate the president of the united states is corrupt. >> jonathan turley is standing by on whether this passes legal muster. we have fox news. mike meredith on the political pushback. let's get to david. you are at the justice department. yesterday you were tearing through the indictment as quickly as you good. you have had time to fully digested. how do you see it this morning? >> it is 45 pages and has a lot of information. special counsel jack smith says this case gets ...

It is described in the indictment. it was fueled by lies. lies by the defendant, targeted at obstructing a bedrock function of the u.s. government, the nation's process of collecting, counting and certifying the results of the presidential election. the men and women of law enforcement who defended the u.s. capitol on january 6th are heroes. they are patriots, and they are the very best of us. they did not just defend a building or the people sheltering in it. they put their lives on the line to defend who we are as a country and as a people. they defended the very institutions and principals ...

Donald trump has been charged with four criminal counts, conspiracy to defraud the united states, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights, specifically the right to vote and to have one's vote counted. and as we now now, trump did not attempt to do this alone. the indictment names six unnamed co-conspirators who assisted him in his criminal efforts, four attorneys, one justice department official and a political consultant. just in the last hour we heard from special counsel jack smith about this...