Hello everyone, it is 4 o'clock in New York. I am R.M. R.M. Elder in for Nicole Wallace and

we are covering right now the day after defended Donald Trump has now been indicted,

arraigned, booked, and fingerprinted, a federal court appearance, captured by sketch artists.

You're seeing one such example. These moments you're looking at right here are that which

Donald Trump has blatantly tried to overshadow with his own series of events and speeches

in recent PR programming. Well, we can all see how this case is different right now. The

early reporting is focused on how it will follow a traditional trajectory though. The New

York Times puts it that way. Next up, we have a date for Trump's co-defendant personally

while not to enter his plea. That will be June 27th. Then there will be also the traditional

status conferences meetings that you would see through the court process every couple

of months, the government supplying evidence to the defense. That material can then inform

the defense lawyer's strategy. The Times notes, Trump lawyers may try a kind of more serious

version of this odd defense that Trump has been publicly mounting. The declassified documents

are, that the classified documents were, he says, somehow secretly or magically declassified

before he left office. There's also the idea that they could, quote, accuse prosecutors

of misconduct like selective prosecution. And Trump's lawyers could seek to have, quote,

potentially damning evidence excluded. We'll try to force the government to disclose

classified material that it still wants to keep secret and quote. Each of those potential

legal paths has basically a component that is legal, kind of sounds obvious, right? A

legal argument, a legal piece of it, but it's not only lawyers making legal claims. There

are also factual claims here, like what Trump did in the past and what the evidence shows

he did. And that is a reason that Trump's improvised public defenses and attacks or whatever

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