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our special breaking news coverage on msnbc as donald j trump is likely facing his most serious legal challenge yet. today, we learned much more about the very serious federal criminal charges in involving his handling of top secret u.s. documents. today, special counsel jack smith released an indictment laying out the evidence against trump. nbc s laura jarrett has the details. new details on the stubborn move up the speed of a former president, also the leading republican challenger to president biden. special counsel jack smith alleging mr. trump mishandled classified documents after leaving office, and obstruction efforts to retrieve them in the state of florida. we have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone. smith laying out 37 criminal counts against the former president, including charges under the espionage act accusing him of improperly retaining national defense information. the indictment says among the classified documents kept ....
that gives you enough time to make it all the way over to this studio, which is it s like a coin toss, in a way. [laughter] it s not a baseball. it s like a coin toss. i have time for one cocktail to be right back. but rachel, i have a couple of news things about what s gonna happen tomorrow. number one, you would really like this, donald trump rehearsed his plea on a boston radio show tonight. and we are gonna bring you that, what he is gonna say, when he is asked how he pleads. but there is this from the magistrate who s handling it tomorrow, who was the one who issued the first warrant in the first place, judge cannon doesn t come into it yet. and he is basically saying that he s just gonna live by the local rules of how what contains the media in these situations. he doesn t feel he is in a position to change that for tomorrow. so what that means is he is gonna follow the local rule there in the federal court in miami that prohibits all forms of photographing, ....
we re building that wall. the justice department has just announced a special counsel to lead a new investigation into russian influence in the election and whether there was coordination with members of the trump campaign. president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. president trump becoming the fourth american president to face the prospect of impeachment. it feels as if, culturally, we re in a cold civil war. [theme music] [donald] when mexico sends its people, they re not sending their best. they re bringing drugs, they re bringing crime, they re rapists, and some, i assume, are good people. when trump announced his candidacy for the presidency, he was not seen as a serious candidate. he, himself, confided to some of his advisors. essentially, what s the downside? this is a great marketing exercise. i will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and i will have mexico pay for that wall. i was prepared to just watch it for a couple ....
outfront next, sources close to trump say they re preparing for yet another indictment. this as the attorney general fights back against trump s attacks. plus, exclusive cnn reporting from the front lines. ukraine making significant gains across the south. our crew on the scene taking cover as a russian plane dropped bombs nearby. our fred pleitgen is there. and a spoiler alert, the white house trying to squash a possible bid by the group no labels. how much could a third-party candidate hurt biden? let s go outfront. good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, team trump bracing for the former president to be indicted, again, this time in georgia. sources close to the former president tell cnn they believe the former president will be indicted there for trying to overturn the 2020 election in georgia. it s a new development, it comes as the attorney general merrick garland is breaking his silence speaking for the first time after the historic indictme ....
there is, of course, the fall-out from what trump is accused of doing when he is facing 37 criminal counts for doing and the potentially grave national security implications of that. we ll get to that in a minute. but there is also a legal process that has been kicked off, which begins in earnest tomorrow when the e-president surrendered for his court appearance. the political world s eyes will return to miami when president trump is expected to surrender. after leaving office, he obstructed efforts to retrieve them and that he made false statement. the event will be the former president s second courtroom appearance as a criminal defendant after his arraignment in april in a new york courthouse on state larges that he falsified business records in connection with a hush money statement to a porn star just before the 2016 election. one of the big outstanding questions, though, ahead of tomorrow s appearance, who will be there representing donald trump? nbc news reports ....