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nbc news has confirmed he's currently in custody and is set to make his first appearance in federal court just a few minutes from now. let us get to it. joining me now is nbc news nas political reporter sahil kapur, host of "the beat" ari melber and barbara mcquaid. pete, i want to begin with you. this is a bit tricky territory for the d.o.j., is it not? >> reporter: well, it didn't seem to be in his case, in the steve bannon case, though it took the justice department almost twice as long to decide whether to pull the trigger on peter navarro on two counts, one for refusing to give ...

Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Well go to trial, what evidence was the government to prepare to prove each single count that Michael Cohen pleads guilty to. The ones that involved the president , the government says and i am holding a copy of the transcript today. We were prepared to offer hard documents. Documents that was taken from Michael Cohens Search Warrant back in april. Also, prepare to offer Audio Recordings that were made by cohen. We heard one of those involving the president several weeks ago. Then theyre going to introduce additional witn...

Nancy for the judge, exchange for the copper cooperation. once we've got into this point, i don't think the government needs his cooperation to secure the conviction of donald trump. >> dave, does it surprise you the walt nauta, his moving of the boxes is part of the affidavit for the search warrant. he has been kind of at the ground zero of this criminal indictment since day one. does it surprise you that he is pleading not guilty here? >> it doesn't surprise me at all. most defendants pleaded not guilty at their arraignment, and as barr rested, negotiations can proceed from there. i do think...

I think he would have to plead guilty as charged. and then he would hopefully see from the judge, exchange for the copper cooperation. once we've got into this point, i don't think the government needs his cooperation to secure the conviction of donald trump. >> dave, does it surprise you the walt nauta, his moving of the boxes is part of the affidavit for the search warrant. he has been kind of at the ground zero of this criminal indictment since day one. does it surprise you that he is pleading not guilty here? >> it doesn't surprise me at all. most defendants plead not guilty at their arrai...

Trump and the other plotters, it could be a destruction of evidence charge but equally important to them as they sift through the evidence for a january 6th set of charges it's consciousness of guilt evidence and the kind of thing that juries inherently understand and get, that if you do something you know is wrong, you try to cover it up so throwing documents in a fireplace is really phenomenal evidence as to the plot itself and also really great leverage for prosecutors as they think about mark meadows as a potential defendant but also a potential cooperator so there will be this kind of evi...