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i m stephanie ruhle. we continue our breaking news coverage on this historic night. nbc news has confirmed, donald trump, the nation s 45th president, has been indicted on seven charges in connection with his mishandling of classified documents. let that sink in for a moment. we ve been talking about it for months but here it is. for the first time in u.s. history,, a former president federal charges trump has received a summons to appear in u.s. district court on june 13th. that is this coming tuesday. the indictment remains under seal. sources tell nbc news. the charges include conspiracy to obstruct. and the new york times reports, the charges also include, quote, willfully retaining national defense secrets in violation of the espionage act. according to people familiar with the matter. the charges, of course, come after a lengthy investigation, led by justice department special counsel, jack smith. tonight, donald trump responded on his social media platform. watch ....
Did not put out a statement, that merrick garland didn t do some sort of press conference, whether or not he was going to answer questions? because without saying anything, your ceiling the floor and the microphone to donald trump. that certainly the argument. two things that happened for the doj to make this statement. the first is, the court is going to have to unseal the document. the attorney general has said, on multiple occasions, doj speaks to its records. what i heard joyce vance say earlier, and they re absolutely right, is that with in the four corners of an indictment, prosecutors can speak. and i think that s what should happen. stephanie, one additional point, if i may observe, last august there was about a two and a half, three-day period during the search of mar-a-lago when the news became public on a monday, and the attorney general address the nation that thursday. i think that could reasonably ....
Obviously liz cheney is taking on the trump endorsed candidates and in her role. i don t know if that moves the needle inside ohio that much. martha: it s interesting. we talk about the big numbers and majority in the house, majority in the senate. all of these races are local. we ve seen tim ryan really trying to hone to the middle. he s complained that he hasn t gotten real support from the democrat party that the money is going other places and he claims that they have abandoned him. j.d. vance says he doesn t think that is true. he thinks ryan last done okay. bret: yeah, obviously if ryan was to come close, if they manage to win in ohio, it would be a huge upset. this is a republican-leaning state. you look at those polls, they re tight. but you look at governor dewine, who is really running ahead of his democratic opponent for governor. tonight will be interesting though. as ryan tries to distance himself from the biden ....
This race? what is the issue? we talked about inflation and right track, wrong track. can somebody like j.d. vance say tim ryan has voted 100% of the time with the biden administration thereby there s an effect of that. it s possible. you know, i saw could be something trivial. i saw a spot a couple days ago where tim ryan was throwing a football with bernie kosar, the cleveland brown great quarterback back when erika was in high school. could be something like that. feeling that tim ryan is a hometown guy, worked his whole life. youngstown area trying to get jobs in to youngstown. j.d. vance very charming in his own way. he went to yale law school. he had the tiger mom as his professor as did my daughter, simone. so i have that kind of psychic connection to him maybe. ....
Senator sharrod brown. for his part, j.d. vance beat out a crowded field of republicans to win the name nation. he has the endorsement of former president trump, which generated excitement in his campaign early on. we ve seen that continue to impact his race. trump will come back to ohio right before the election. he s going to be holding a rally in dayton for vance. today former congresswoman tulsi gabbard that recently left the democratic party, she endorsed vance via tweet. he said tim ryan represents everything that is wrong with the war mongering washington establishment. i m endorsing vance because he knows the cost of war and the government exists to serve the people, not the other way around. about 1 1/2 hours ago, we heard about another endorsement coming from liz cheney that will be leaving congress because she lost her primary. she s made it clear she s not a fan of j.d. vance and throwing her support behind tim ryan. she says she would vote for ryan if she lived here in ohi ....