headlines in the days, weeks months, even years to come right now, donald trump and hi golf club in west palm beach set to become the first former president to appear in court a a criminal defendant here is what is expected t unfold trump will arrive in new yor city monday night, tuesday around 1 pm or so, he ll b driven from trump tower to the courthouse as of now, he will not b handcuffed, nor will he be placed in a holding cell he will be booked, and vigor printed. tuesdays also when we re expected to learn the exac charges trump is facing. earlier, the former president lawyers gave some new strategy details. we re not doing anything because that would b showmanship, and nothing more. we haven t even seen the indictment yet we will take the indictment, w will dissect it, we will loo at every potential issue tha will be able to challenge, i very much anticipates meanwhile, the reaction fro a lawyer, trump s former attorney, points to the star witness in the hush mo
that the person they call th individual one, who was donald trump. they laid out the scheme there when it came to lookin at the question of trying to charge trump, they could i charge of this presidents. that office looked at the case after trump left office, i concluded that they couldn t charge this case there were some real concern that federal prosecutors had a both michael cohen s credibility. those were queer people. there was some political influence. now it s been reported by jeff berman in his book, the former u.s. attorney and others, by some senior people of the trum administration over that office all reported at nbc news her that didn t make a differenc in how they perceive this case they ultimately sought differently. here s a reminder, this woul be a much cleaner situation if this case was being brought by the justice department, alex interesting what are you hearing,, cannonball the doj and special counsel, jack smith saw this does this indictment, does i complicate t
it clear that i was willing to go on the stand and tell m story if they needed me. but at this very moment in time, i have not officially been called it looked like i was going t be called to friday s ago an then changed, so it changes by the minute honestly. does this mean she may not b so pivotal to the case after all? i think that s true look, alex, the folks that wer at the heart of this schem were donald trump, michael cohen, david pecker, dylan howard at the national enquirer, and then the lawyer wh represented both stormy daniels, and karen mcdougal and terms of the actua negotiations of the hush money payments, whether paid by th enquirer to karen mcdougal, or that paid by michael - to stormy daniels, neither o the women who were directl involved in communications wit the trump side, all of tha happened through their lawyers to the extent that the distric attorney will need som
attorney s office in the southern district to stand dow on our investigation as someone who respects that officer great deal, i did. so i was somewhat surprise after mr. cohen pleaded guilty that the federal government di not proceed on the areas i which he asked me to stand down by that time - let s bring in ken delaney, and justice and intelligence correspondent for nbc news welcome, can t so what did you take from that response is there any way to interpre that as the trump justic department influencing vance s moves on the hush money case great to see, you alex. i don t think. so look, this is a ver complicated situation. it s very normal for u.s attorney s office that s conducting a federal investigation into something t ask local prosecutors to ste aside. remember, at the time, vance i talking about the southern district of new york was investigating michael cohen an the entire hush money scheme they ended up charging cohen and cohen pled guilty, and the laid out what the act
okay. let s take a listen to wha vance said about the violent rhetoric that trump ha directed towards rga here s that. i would be mindful of not committing some other criminal offense, like obstruction of governmental administration. that could take what, perhaps, we think is not the stronges case, when you add account lik that, put it in front of a jury, change the jury s mind about the severity of the case peter outlined that - of this. when asked of you, lisa. does trump have any sense of history in his place tenets no with two impeachments, and thi indictment i don t think so. i don t think he has a sense that at all. in fact, alex, he continues to forgive them and formality he runs his mouth on socia media in a way that ever lawyer who had ever advised hi would tell him to stop doing at he s created additional troubl for himself in the civil case, with eugene carroll, because