today the justice department arrested and or rain donald trump. don trump is now been criminally indicted more times than he was ever elected. related to the alleged miss handling of classified documents. he has a pled not guilty. there was a weighty mood in that courtroom, you could feel that this was a historic day walking. in mr. trump sat stone faced. arms tightly folded across his chest. everything we witnessed today was self inflicted by donald trump. he literally is obsessed with the boxes. why was he so obsessed with the boxes that you want to take them on vacation? i m not gonna start commenting on the various candidates that we have running for president. it is a daunting situation for the former president, were only at the beginning. it tells me that he has a viable defense. i did everything right and they indicted me. why does not trump realize that he has the right to remain silent? good evening once again i m stephanie ruhle.
And that brings this hour to lewandowski has agreed to come in. We expect to have him come in a close. This month. I will see you tonight at we have additional witnesses we 8 00 p. M. Eastern and then will be interviewing some using tomorrow at 1 00 eastern and staff to interview and others well have them come during a public hearing. Again at 3 00 p. M. Eastern. This is all to educate the deadline white house with American People. Nicolle wallace begins now. There already is a mountain of hi, everyone. Evidence that donald trump its 4 00 in new york. Committed multiple felonies. Not even a trip to the pentagon congressman, do you to honor the victims of 9 11 on understand the critique that the this solemn anniversary slowed Southern District of new york found donald trump to have the president s steady stream of committed a felony campaign complaints and attacks today. Most of those grievances aired finance violation in their investigation that Robert Mueller found donald trump on his
you guys will actually there is some indication that actually might already have happened, because they only charge 38 of the documents, not all of the 31. 31, i m sorry. not all the possible documents in the universe. of course, and the reason you want to do that is, because you have a specie trial. you know that you have to call ready, indictment process is already lengthy, then you have to go for two adjudge, and say listen, i know the talking points are going to be involved in election interference, this candidate has for 21 days of that person likely being off the campaign trail of the presentation of our evidence alone, they re contemplated already the idea that the doj has ruled not to obviously interfere with the election, now we are in a good window for that right, now this august trial date which will likely that is not gonna happen in, august they will counter some of that but the question is what the jury can see, if the jury does not actually have a national
intelligence sources, underlying some of these documents. that could put at risk the lives of people that cooperate with united states. it also sends a message to people going forward, can you trust the united states? can you trust the united states to share intelligence or to spy on our behalf? so this is very, very serious information that he was treating in the most casual way in terms of it obviously being on secure location. a location in mar-a-lago that has probably been the number one intelligence target for russia, china, and other u.s. adversaries for years where we know that there are weddings, parties, people wandering through their. not very hard to get access to mar-a-lago if you are a determined adversary. so i think the u.s. government does not know just to trump shared this with. if from the reporting we know that he was sharing with kind of random biographers, if you are sharing with those guys will today share it with? it could not be more serious in terms of the natu