sources familiar with the matter tell nbc news donald trump faces about 30 counts of document fraud-related charges in the indictment of course we ll know more when the indictment is nsealed, and of course next week will be a big week as it s expected he will surrender to authorities early next week. that does it for us this morning, josé diaz-balart picks up the coverage right now. and good morning, it is 10:00 a.m., 7:00 a.m. pacific. i m josé diaz-balart, and we begin this friday in uncharted territory, a former u.s. president indicted moments ago we learned from two sources familiar with the matter that there are about 30 counts of document fraud-related charges in the indictment. the case, of course, involves a hush money payment made to adult film actress stormy daniels who said she had an affair with trump, when he denied. we expect donald trump to surrender to the manhattan d.a. s office to be arraigned next week. he ll have his fingerprints taken and will be ph
tonight on the reidout my goal, this is not revenge. what this is is account ability. i don t want to see anyone including donald trump indicted, incarcerated simply because i fundamentally disagree with them this is all about accountability he needs to be held accountable for his dirty deed michael cohen testified before a grand jury. and with the walls seeming to be closing in, trump is once again calling for an investigation of the investigation. also tonight, president biden reassures americans that their money is safe in the bank, after two recent bank failures and we ll look at the role trump era deregulation played in the financial havoc in silicon valley we begin tonight with mike pence. a former vice president who quite possibly is most famous for his tongue biting silence. but believe it or not, mike pence used to talk for a living. seriously, he was a right-wing talk radio host in the 90s, true story meaning it was once his job to say what he thought.
arizona. so who has the upper hand? let s go out front. and good evening, i m erin burnett. out front tonight, a victory for the rule of law. that s the words from the top two members of the january 6th select committee. after trump s long-time ally steve bannon was found guilty of contempt for refusing to appear before the committee. congressman bennie thompson and congresswoman liz cheney came out with a warning, for anyone else who tries to on strubt or stone wall their investigation, just as there must be accountability for all those responsible for the events of january 6th, anyone who obstructs our investigation into these matters should face consequences. no one is above the law. now bannon, i should note, is the first close aide to trump to be convicted as a result of investigations into the insurrection. he could face months if not a year in jail. after the verdict trump s former chief strategist lashed out at the committee. i only have one disappointment, and that
judge and a combative eric trump and a prosecutor, will it be a preview of next week and the former president s testimony after his son calls the trial itself an absolute joke. the current president, sending his secretary of state on a very high stakes mission to israel, making a personal plea to stop the fighting if only for a few hours. the desperate push to get more people out of harm s way even as israeli forces encircle the largest city in the gaza strip with thousands trapped inside. a former u.s. ambassador to israel will join me to explain where things go from here. and the alarming surge of anti-semitic threats on college campuses now leading one university to pull the plug on classes today citing stress on the students. with no end to the war in sight, will the threats and the fallout get worse before they get better? but we start in new york where tensions exploded in a testy 25-minute long back and forth between donald trump s legal team and the judge at his c
has not charged the former president or any of his family members with those other fraud offenses despite criticism from some former lawyers in his office who said it was a good case it came as a bit of a surprise, frankly, when we learned that bragg had revived this separate hush money case, which had been dropped by federal prosecutors and also by his predecessor. as this investigation has heated up, officials say bragg has been the subject of dozens of credible threat, and he s now the first prosecutor ever to have indicted a former president, jose. and ken, we re of course going to be hearing a whole lot more about the judge trump is expected to appear before next week what do we know about him? yeah, marshan last year ran the trial of the trump organization which was convicted of tax fraud and presided over the guilty plea of allen weiss weisselberg. he was born in bogota, colombia, moved to the u.s. when he was 6. he worked his way through baruch