he will use the power of the house to fight back and th speaker is not the only on weighing in. this president has conducte himself in a way that he doe not deserve not to be arrested he should be arrested, h should be indicted when he announces himself, i is almost like he is attemptin to organize his domestic terrorist. to show up, to resist him bein arrested we are gonna have more on the outside reaction ahead garrett, you re right there on the ground, you re gonna b with us together on this trump coverage over the next two hours. let s start with your ow reporting as you ve been following the story all day. of course, before this as well so the presidents reacting saying tuesday to be clear, what indication do we have that he has eve been told, from what you v been saying, he has been not no richard, the president the former president is workin off the same information tha we in the news media are working off of in fact, we know that he i responding to nbc news whic
and good afternoon, in fo yasmin vossoughian live from 30 rock. i m garrett haake in west palm beach where among trump set off a firestorm today with a posted truth social saying that he expected to be arreste on tuesday the manhattan da s offic hasn t confirmed that and trum s own attorneys are sayin that they haven t been tol anything yet the former president sayin that he is basing hi contention only on what he has heard in the media but there still is plenty of reaction kevin mccarthy suggesting that
lawyer was attacking the cas on the theory that it woul focus on these payments. whether they were truthful whether they were lied about i a binding proceeding, we wen back and forth on the very question a lie versus a lie that can be a crime. it is illegal to lie on trut social it is illegal to lie to the ir to tax authorities as everyone knows, lying i court, that is called perjury. real people do get trouble for that the lawyers are appearing fo that kind of case. i would just add that again, w don t know whether the case is only that, something else, for that and something else. your number three would be tha this is one of several thing because we do know that th trump organization was als convicted of fraud we do know that the trump cf on the company side is in jail convicted on multiple counts it is also possible that while the trump current lawyer might
trying to change where thing are going. he is making this announcement we also may recall a mar-a-lago when he did have hi property searched, he was th one to put that out there. this is a pattern that we have seen as everyone has bee careful to say you mentioned your reporting richard, we had msnbc are no reporting or confirming th possible indictment. the new york times - things that are expected almos did happen, sometimes they don t. it will ultimately be a very factual, concrete activity it a grand jury returns and the eight puts forward and indictment with all trump is doing toda is clearly an effort to ad uncertainty chaos, delay, an or even possibly given the echoes january 6th, a direct physical appearance with the rule of law. i think today is very differen than yesterday or any day really since back t
be attacking the case abou misstatements and the time reported last week that th daniels case is part of it, it could be broader than that again, we are working off of what we know to be only part o the picture. we are working off of th witnesses we see going the fact that we see mr. cohen going, mister daniel some of the spoke to the prosecutor in last week. they are looking hard at tha piece. but there may be other thing that are only held by people work or that we didn t see or they want an earlier, i could also be part of it i want to play another part of your interview with tacopin where he gets into a potential defense for trump. let s take a listen to that. if the spending or th fulfillment of the commitment, for the expenditure, would exist irrespective of campaign, it is not a campaign or violation end of story this would exist irrespectiv of the campaign. you are making a defens that he would pay this out