the maga machine in overdriv working to pay any investigation into trump as hoax before the public eve knows the charges. the indictment in new york remains sealed as investigator in washington and atlanta look into trump s efforts t overturn the 2020 election and america waits to find ou if trump will face accountability joining me now, andy crowl reporter at propublica he is author of a death on w street the murder of seth rich in the age of conspiracy. msnbc contributor joe why bank is, here she is coast of the hashtag sisters in the podcast she is also a former watergate prosecutor and the author of the watergate girl and former u.s. attorney and legal affairs columnist for th l.a. times, harry lippman join us all right, folks, jill, you know, msnbc news reports that trump face 30 counts. again, the indictment is still sealed and we do not know th charges. but what should we expect to learn on tuesday obviously we will finally learn what the precise facts that are relie
new target for his tirades, th new york supreme court justice assigned to his hush money case, judge juan merchan, also presided over the trump trial, working out a plea deal with former cfo allen weisselberg weisselberg s attorney eve went as far as pace the judg as quote, well prepared and man who kept his word. that hasn t stopped trump from attacking merchan online trump claims that judge, quote hates him. to be clear, folks, merchan wa randomly selected for the trum cases. joining me now to discuss this and more is melissa murray professor of law and why you and msnbc contributor. melissa, what more can you tel us about judge merchan s reputation in the lega community? what are the legal stree saying about him well, out here in these streets, simone, he s known as a street shooter, someone wh does not bear grudges, not a
individuals who are all sort o doing and involved in the same kind of thing. and in the same company that this is why this has bee linked to judge merchan in thi instance but the initial assignment, th weisselberg case and the trump court case, that was random. so, this was simply a follow-u to that. okay, breaking it down fo us, melissa, thank you let s talk about these threats against the manhattan district attorney because donald trum has, i think it s safe to say, tripled down on the threats. how might the judge respond to that behavior? and also, how might the judg respond to the threats or th language donald trump is using about him specifically so, this is really important, symone it is not just threats against alvin bragg and the members of the da s office, it is als alvin bragg s family so, this is becoming reall ugly, and really dangerous for a lot of different people. and it is likely that the judg will address this at the arraignment, but certainly security is going to