Rachel Maddow provided an explanation for MSNBC's decision not to broadcast President Trump's post-arrest speech, which occurred following his arraignment in federal court on Tuesday.

MSNBC did not broadcast former President Donald Trump's post-arrest speech, which followed his arraignment in New York City, because they considered it not newsworthy

Rachel Maddow, an MSNBC host, announced during her show that they would not carry Trump's pre-fund-raisers remarks live because they expected it to be a Trump campaign speech, essentially repeating his same lies and allegations against his perceived enemies

. Maddow claimed that this was not a "glib decision" by the network and that they were not celebrating the decision to censor Trump's speech

. CNN also refused to air Trump's speech live, citing that it could be "dangerous" to do so

Donald Trump faced 37 felony charges related to his alleged mishandling of classified documents during his arraignment in federal court in Miami

. The charges include 31 counts accusing him of "willfully retaining" classified national defense documents in violation of the Espionage Act, and six other charges, which include counts of obstruction of justice, conspiracy to obstruct justice, and false statements, related to efforts by Trump to obstruct the investigation and conceal his retention of classified documents

. The charges against Trump stem from an investigation that began after Trump allegedly spurned repeated efforts by the National Archives to take possession of the documents that he had taken from the White House and kept at Mar-a-Lago

. Trump is expected to plead not guilty to the charges

The Espionage Act is a law dating back to World War I that has been used to prosecute spies and people who leak and retain national defense information

. The act has been employed most often by law-and-order conservatives

. The Espionage Act applies to all national defense information, of which classified materials are only a portion

. The act makes it a crime to remove, copy, or share national defense information, or to "willfully [retain]" national defense information and "[fail] to deliver it to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it"

. Trump is being charged with violating the Espionage Act by willfully retaining classified national defense documents

. The charges include 31 counts accusing him of "willfully retaining" classified national defense documents in violation of the Espionage Act, and six other charges, which include counts of obstruction of justice, conspiracy to obstruct justice, and false statements, related to efforts by Trump to obstruct the investigation and conceal his retention of classified documents

. To prove a violation of the Espionage Act and its prohibition on retaining documents, the Department of Justice must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump didn't have authority to have the documents, that they were related to the national defense, that him keeping documents was "intentional and voluntary" and that Trump knew it was against the law, and that he failed to deliver them to the government

The Espionage Act is a law that has been used to prosecute spies and people who leak and retain national defense information. Here are some high-profile cases that have involved charges under the Espionage Act:

• Daniel Ellsberg was tried in 1973 under the Espionage Act for leaking to the Washington Post and the New York Times the so-called Pentagon Papers, about 7,000 pages of documents covering US involvement in the Vietnam War that countered the government’s official narrative

• Reality Winner, a National Security Agency whistleblower, was convicted under the Espionage Act for giving a classified document to a news outlet

• Former CIA officer Aldrich Ames was convicted of spying for the Soviets

• FBI agent Robert Hanssen was convicted of spying for Soviet and Russian intelligence services for 25 years

• Eugene V. Debs, Victor L. Berger, and Emma Goldman were imprisoned under the Espionage Act for speaking out against World War I

• Jonathan Pollard was convicted of spying for Israel

• Larry Wu-tai Chin was convicted of spying for China

It is worth noting that the Espionage Act is a wide-ranging and oft-amended law, covering the most serious spying charges and crimes that are not espionage