Rachel Maddow

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Trump's Justice Department has brought criminal charges against nine people after an anti-ICE protest at a St.

Paul church last month.

People charged include former CNN anchor Don Lemon and longtime multiple Emmy Award winning Minnesota journalist Georgia Fort.

Both Lemon and Fort were just there covering the protest.

Ms.

Fort joins us live now.

Ms.

Fort, thank you so much for being here.

I really appreciate your time.

I was struck by those videos that you filmed during the course of your arrest as agents came to your home and the sort of very serious calm with which you told your viewers on Facebook Live that your kids were in the house when that happened.

I just want to ask how you're doing and how your kids are doing.

In terms of the legal process here, I know you have a good lawyer.

Do you have any help with your legal fees?

One of the things that I think sort of zoomed around the journalistic community, particularly as soon as we heard about your arrest, was about how those of us who work at big companies think about our legal defense very differently than somebody who's been an independent operator the way you have, even with your very successful show and journalistic career in Minnesota.

Are you bearing these costs on your own, or do you have help?

A lot of legal observers have said that the indictment kind of reads like it was written in Comic Sans, forgive me, that it doesn't seem like it's very well thought out and that it doesn't actually seem like it's even designed to survive much testing in the courts.

That doesn't mean that it's any less traumatic what's happened to you or how difficult it is to bear these charges.

But given the flimsiness and novelty

of the charges that have been laid against you.