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united states has made the front page of several newspapers. here's a sampling of how some of the papers are treating it. the chicago sun-times with a profile picture of former president donald trump, the first former president to face federal charges. trump says he has been indicted and classified documents cases. the tampa bay times at large font, trump indicted. the other charges stemming from the new york case you saw a couple months ago. the new york daily news, indicted again. criminal charges in florida tied to documents at mar-a-lago according to reports and according to president trump on his own truth social feed. politico offers a cheat sheet into these new charges. this is from the section of what crimes the president is being charged with. they write the indictment is

under seal but is said to contain seven criminal accounts. one of trump's attorneys said in a television interview he has seen summons documents from prosecutors, including a provision of the espionage act that prevents the retention of classified material, a statute that prohibits falsifying and destroying records pertinent to a federal investigation, and a statute prohibiting false statements and conspiracy. former president trump expected in court in florida next tuesday to hear these charges, file a plea, and so on. for the course of three hours you can share your thoughts on these latest developments concerning the former president. (202) 748-8001 for republicans. (202) 748-8000 per democrats. (202) 748-8002 for independents. former president trump put out a lengthy video yesterday on his

truth social website about these latest charges. several minutes in length. here it is in its entirety. [video clip] >> we are a nation in decline and yet they go after a popular president, president who got more votes than any sitting president in the history of our country by far and did much better the second time in the election than the first. they go after him on a hoax. just like the russia hoax and all of the others. this has been going on for seven years. they cannot stop because it is election interference at the highest level. there has never been anything like what has happened. i am an innocent man. they had the mueller report. that came out, no collusion. that was set up by hillary clinton and democrats. this is what they do. this is what they do so well. if they would devote their energy to honesty and integrity

it will be a lot better for their country. they can do a lot of great things. if you look at what has happened to our country. we were energy independent. we had a strong military that was not woke. we were doing so well with respect all over the world. the biggest tax cuts in history, the biggest regulation cuts. you had an election that was taken. a president that got more votes than any sitting president in history by far and they come after me because now we are leading in the polls again against biden and against the republican. we are leading against biden by a lot. a tremendous amount. they figured the way they are going to stop us is using warfare. this is warfare. we cannot let it happen. we cannot let it happen.

our country is going to hell. they come after donald trump, weaponizing the justice department, weaponizing the fbi. we cannot let this continue to go on because it is ripping our country to shreds. we have such big problem and this should not be one of them. it is a hoax. just like russia. just like the fake dossier was a hope. -- was a hoax. you saw the durham report, you saw the mueller report. you had two impeachments and they lost and we won. we had tremendous report but that was a hoax and a stamp and now they are doing it again. seven years. even after i am out. it is called election interference. they are trying to destroy a reputation so they can win an election. that is just as bad as doing any

of the other things that have been done over the last number of years and especially during the 2020 election. i want to tell you i am innocent man, i did nothing wrong, and we will fight this like we've been fighting for seven years. it would be wonderful if we could devote our full to making america great again and that is exactly what we did. now our country is in decline. we are a failing nation. this is what they do. i am an innocent man. we will prove that again. seven years of proving it. very unfair. i want to thank everybody. we are doing something very special for our country. i always put america first. that is why we were in a position. unfortunately that position is no longer valid because they have done such a poor job. we are in a position where we will make america great again.

i am innocent and we will prove that soundly and hopefully quickly. thank you very much. host: that video released about an hour after the president finding out about these expected charges from the justice department from special counsel jack smith. the former president indicted in this classified documents based. that is the topic of our show. republicans (202) 748-8001, democrats (202) 748-8000, independents (202) 748-8002. you can also post on facebook and twitter. we will start off with perry and south dakota. you are first up. go ahead. caller: thank you for having me. i am jill that the justice department -- it is a whole different level of what they are doing with the former president. we have now a present president

that the house of representatives is taking up with bribery. his bribery worse than this keeping records in your house that just about every president in the past has done. they have taken stuff home with them. now we are making an issue out of taking it home and using it to a certain level. i do not know what that is. i feel it is up to the justice department to consider what we have right now. what is good for the gander is good for the goose with this present administration we have now. it is coming right out of the house of representatives that there is bribery. host: robert in baltimore.

democrats line. caller: i cannot believe what i just heard. trump knew better. i do not know if the man is crazy or what. i believe what he is doing is selling secrets to other countries. look at his son. his stepson. his son-in-law. $2 million he got. host: ronald in east orange, new jersey. independent line. caller: good morning. what that first caller does not understand is it is not the fact that he took the documents. it is the fact that he did not want to give them back. that is the problem. the man has always thought about himself first, the country last.

anybody else who does not believe that is crazy. host: we will go to dahlia in miami, florida. republican line. caller: good morning. we are becoming a banana republic. when you have a government that weaponizes and make sure another man cannot run for president because he is waiting -- he is winning, that is called banana republic. we have the biggest criminal sitting in the white house. all this about the $5 million he got because he interfered in ukraine. it is allowed. he even said it in 2017 that he

went to ukraine and he told them unless you fire that prosecutor you are not getting $1 billion. and what was the prosecutor going after? burisma, where his son worked. for that the burisma people gave him $5 million. that is being criminal. he is a criminal. he is the one that should be going to jail along with his entire family. host: that is dahlia in miami, florida. president biden was asked a question about the justice department's investigation into the former president. this was before the charges we heard of. news came from that. here is president biden from earlier yesterday. >> what you say to americans convinced they should trust the

independence and fairness of the justice department when your predecessor donald trump repeatedly attacked it. >> he knows i have never once suggested to the justice department what they should do were not do as far as bringing charges or not bringing charges. i am honest. host: that was from the white house. the new york times highlights that it was in may of 2022 that prosecutors issued a subpoena for the return of all classified documents. when mr. trump received the subpoena he asked a lawyer how to help them comply with it come if he has to obey its demands. according to the notes of the conversation mr. cochran conducted a search of mar-a-lago and drafted a sworn statement that everything demanded had been found. in early june of 2022 prosecutors from washington visited mr. cochran at the florida compound to collect the

folder he had prepared for them with about 30 classified documents he had discovered during his search. within a matter of weeks prosecutors developed evidence the search prosecutors conducted was incomplete and more classified material remained at mar-a-lago. all of these events leading up to yesterday's indictment from special counsel jack smith who was tapped by merrick garland to investigate these matters. ricky in maryland, democrats line. caller: good morning. let me just remind the american people how we got to this point. i want the american people to know that the department of justice did not just wake up and say let's go get trump. let's remind each other how we got to this point. he started off with what was said earlier. he had an opportunity to turn over information that belongs to

the archives. he chose not to do it. that is a felony. he had other allegations pending towards him, what he did in the state of georgia when he called and asked the state secretary to look for 11,800 votes. that is another felony. he has also been involved with paying a prostitute $130,000 which his previous lawyer went to jail for. that is a felony. host: that is all on the record. what about the charges yesterday specifically? caller: i am not surprised. the evidence is in place. the special prosecutor is doing the job he has been hired to do. he followed the evidence and now here we are.

we have a duty and obligation to go after donald trump and let him face the charges and let everyone remember this. he is innocent until proven guilty. the burden is on the government to prove him guilty. everybody sit down and relax and let see democracy at work. host: that was ricky. let's go to larry and north carolina. independent line. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i wish i could redo this morning. i told my wife i must have esp because i said they are going to talk about this indictment on c-span this morning. yet nothing about the numerous scenarios with the biden they are bright. i don't understand it.

i really don't. i am amazed that this is going on, and this all stems back, and i appreciate the caller from maryland, he made a lot of sense on things. this stems back from the hillary clinton scenario 2016. darling hilary did not win her election. from that point on the democrat machine started putting lies in the face of the american people and saying they were truth. it still continues today. host: larry in north carolina. the new york times highlighting what larry has brought up, saying mr. trump will try to turn this around on his pursuers arguing he is being persecuted because he has been indicted where misses clinton was not. never mind that the facts of the case are different and he seemed to go out of his way to intentionally thwart authorities

trying to recover the secret documents. and mrs. was not willingly tried to violate the law but it will be useful argument for mr. trump that he is accused of a double standard. the 2016 campaign is another matter but he spent much of his presidency disregarding concerns about the security hub is information. that is in the analysis section of the new york times. let's hear from david, republican line, indiana. caller: good morning. i appreciated the callers before me. it is amazing you can find all sorts of documents scattered around the biden residences. he took those when he was a senator, which is completely illegal. a felony. a president has the right to handle classified documents and

make them unclassified whenever he wants. i knew you would not mention anything about the $5 million that was paid out by varese ma to the biden family. a member of the biden family is a teacher. where did he get the money to build all of his homes? amazing. the biggest corrupter is sitting in the white house. the biggest liar. controlled by the democratic puppets. caller: james -- host: james in new york, democrats line. hello. caller: i am elated the department and merrick garland have finally shown some sense of

jurisprudence. i was beginning to think this country is going up in smoke because of all of the things that the ex-president has done and also with all of the people like tom cotton, lindsey graham, mitch mcconnell, kevin mccarthy, who had a chance and spoke after the insurrection. in ex-president that sat in the white house and watched people get murdered during the insurrection. nobody talks about that. i am so glad that finally there is a semblance -- like the gentleman said he is innocent until proven guilty. one thing the ex-president is really good at, he knows how to play the media. he is the pt barnum, he is very shrewd about that. it is all about victimization. it is them against us. nobody talks about nixon, nobody

talks about george w. bush, who sent american troops into a war that should never have been fought. nobody talks about spiro agnew. this is a way of the republicans. i am just glad that this morning, i've been waiting for four or five years where republicans allowed him to get away with. the republican party is complicit by being silent and allowing -- paul ryan had a chance when he was speaker. he did nothing. host: we got your point. these indictments have been alleged in other various were. the president talking about receiving them himself. tuesday will be the date when he hears the charges in court in florida. for that to happen next tuesday when it comes to members. various members of congress have

put things on their twitter feed. this is kevin mccarthy saying today is a dark day for the united states of america. it is unconscionable for a president to indict a candidate opposing him. i never he american who believes in the rule of law stated with president trump. house republicans will hold this brazen weaponization of power accountable. jim jordan, also committee chair, putting out on his twitter feed "sad day for america, god bless president trump." republican max boot, the phony indictment is an attempt to distract from the bribes the biden crime family received from foreign nationals. donald trump will be back in the white house and joe will be hunter's cellmate. the house minority leader hakim jeffries saving the rule of law is central to our democracy it must be applied without fear or favor to everyone.

democrat from colorado say never before has a former president been indicted for a federal crime. by indicting trump america's justice system is once again showing its strength and reminding us no one is above the law, not even former president. representative robert garcia.

counsel smith: good afternoon. today, an indictment charged