yesterday, when the new broke that fox had reached a last-minute settlement wit dominion over the networks false claims about the 202 election, there were surpris and there was disappointment damaged i want my trial. i want it. i guess it s satisfying, i mean, for dominion, that rupert ha to file over a bunch of cash but that does nothing for democracy. what we need is fox news personality to look straight into the camera, admit tha they lied over and over agai about the 2020 election. america did not get to wish rupert murdoch - ruppy raise his right hand and tel the truth, the truth and nothing but the whole truth. they did not get any mea culpa under oath with the country did get to se is a 787.5 million dolla concession from fox, a nearl 788 million dollar payout that suggests fox was scared of wha awaited the company at trial, price tag beginning if that it verges on something a lot of people have been searching for for a long time. that s accountability. and i
to start this hour, let s brea down all of the news and how i view the trump indictment. sources familiar with th matter tell nbc news that trum faces around 30 charges of documented fraud connected to hush mone payments that he allegedly mad to cover up fast affairs in th run up to the 2016 election. two sources tell the associate press that it includes at leas one felony offense, and th exact charges at this moment against the ex president are still unknown. because the indictment remains sealed nbc news has now joined coalition of news organization urging that the indictment t be unsealed, citin overwhelming public interest ahead of trump s scheduled arraignment next tuesday that group is also requestin that cameras be allowed inside the courtroom during tuesday s proceedings. according to the new york times, trump and his aides were caugh off guard by the timing of the grand jury indictment which wa made public thursday afternoon thinking that any action was perhaps still
tonight, we are going to giv you the context and th perspective you need t understand how these next fe weeks and months will unfold you are going to hear about th strength of alvin bragg s case against donald trump, an congressman ted lieu wil respond to republican attack on the da. and later, the other massive illegal news from the, week th fox defamation lawsuit lap and guess which programs are o the hit list i m ayman, let s get started to start this hour, let s brea down all of the news and how i view the trump indictment. sources familiar with th matter tell nbc news that trum faces around 30 charges of document fraud connected t hush money payments that h allegedly made it to cover u past affairs in the run up t the 2016 election. two sources tell the associate press that includes at least one felony offense, and th exact charges at this moment against the ex president are still unknown because th indictment remains sealed. nbc news has now joined coalition of a new or
potentially more of a hire lying had he read the te leaves on where alle weisselberg maybe, terms of hi he clearly shows a valuable witness against donald trump and he has now testified at th trial, with the trum organization, and he was beneficial to the prosecutio but also beneficial to the defense. sophie has a lawyer that sam mccain s and speaking to the d.a. s office that he s no gonna cooperate. yeah, but the d.a. s office would very much like him t cooperate. exactly, and we don t kno whether or not they have other charges they may have over his head so not clear about that. if they, do that could be reason to have them consider that maybe he might want t cooperate. and not spend the rest of his earthly years in jail. he 75 years old, and it s not fun to be incarcerated
to produce documents but they did send a letter t d.a. bragg and requests that h come testify and produce documents, they also sent letter to the member of th trial team, and asked that h come testify and produce documents. india bragged said, that i investigation is still continuing that s actually th investigation, but the attorne general for new york state, ha brought a lawsuit against mr trump, and his family. so that could be a criminal indictment, it s now a civil fraud case but that could be a criminal indictment. which would carry big implications in terms of not just accountability but in terms of crimes, right it s a way a yea investigation. what if mr. weisselberg newly released from rikers, he has counsel at least what we r hearing is that this council i