Donald Trump’s valet and co-defendant in the special counsel’s classified documents case faced his arraignment today
The ReidOut with Joy Reid
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🗓️ 7 July 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight on The Readout. |
| 0:04.0 | And I said, look, you are asking me to do something that is counter to my oath when I swore to the Constitution to uphold it. |
| 0:16.0 | And I also swore to the Constitution and the laws of the state of Arizona. |
| 0:21.0 | You are asking me to do something against my oath and I will not break my oath. |
| 0:26.0 | That was then Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers appearing before the January 6th Committee last year. |
| 0:32.0 | Now he says he has spoken to the FBI about efforts to overturn Arizona's election results in 2020. |
| 0:40.0 | That is Trump's right-hand man, Walt Nauda, enters a plea in court to charge as he helped Trump mishandle classified documents. |
| 0:48.0 | Also tonight in the aftermath of the Supreme Court affirmative action decision, a Republican Senator Warren's Colleges against admitting too many blacks and Latinos, |
| 0:58.0 | the great Sheryl and Eiffel joins me to discuss. |
| 1:01.0 | And Elon Musk spent $44 billion to buy Twitter. |
| 1:05.0 | What's it worth now? |
| 1:07.0 | After more than 30 million people have signed up for Mark Zuckerberg's rival app Threads in less than 24 hours. |
| 1:16.0 | But we begin tonight with the third time being the charm for Walt Nauda, Donald Trump's valet and co-defendant in the special counsel's classified documents case. |
| 1:25.0 | Today, Nauda finally faced his arrangement after, at long last, finding a Florida-based criminal attorney. |
| 1:31.0 | He spoke just three words in court saying, yes, your honor. |
| 1:35.0 | As he pleaded not guilty to the six charges laid out in last month's indictment, including conspiracy to instruct justice, |
| 1:42.0 | withholding a document or record and making false statements. |
| 1:46.0 | Mind you, that was three more words than Trump uttered during his arrangement last month. |
| 1:52.0 | Nauda is the only other person charged in the case. |
| 1:55.0 | He's accused of helping Trump hide top national security files that Trump took after leaving the White House from both investigators and even from Trump's old lawyers. |
| 2:04.0 | From the indictment, it would appear that all of it was done at the direction of the twice impede, twice indicted former president. |
| 2:12.0 | Now, as a parents in court comes a day after a federal judge unsealed more of the affidavit that the FBI used last summer to obtain a warrant to search Mar-a-Lago for classified documents. |
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