anymore. and here we are now. thank you so much, joyq■. good evening, from new york, i am chris hayes, andñr■it is a big night with major historic breaking news. and i mqgoing to be with you for the next hour entirely. and after that, the one and only rachel maddow will be here. kmt. x■so, we expect that somelp time early next week that the former president of these united states willoki] surrender to the manhattan district attorney s office where he will be arrested and face arraignment on felony criminal charges. and that m■jul■ afternoon a grand jury in manhattan voted to indict donald trump i of their son baron. this is the culmination of an investigation that s been five years and two districtf■ attorneys. in recent weeks, as the case neared a close, or appeared to, we saw key witnesses testify before the grand juryñr■ down i■ m■attan, including michael cohen, trump st■r and fixer, who actk!ñ■made the payments toçó■daniels in october of 201
again, donald trump denies any and all wrongdoing. but look for nextçó■week for tuesday, a possible court appearance. ñ■ do we know which judges assigned to this? we have heardç■ that it is te same judge that handled the trump corporateçó■case, the case of the trump company, which was the conviction obtained by mr. brag and that it cou$■ind up in his lap as well. there is nothing official, obviously, until the charges on our unsealed i just want to be clear about this. because i have before me, and we will get to these are responsesñi■coming to, obviously,s■■■trump and his son, but obviously republican politicians across the country. we don t know what thei■ charges are. like, as you and i sit here, we know what was being investigated. we know michael cohen. we know what resolves revolves around this. but the actual specific case that is being made by them andx■ handed looked attorney here in the charge we just don t know, correct? iñ■ don t
despised the clintons, were laughing at the clintons. and then said we re going to stop this. we need an insurance policy. you would be going nuts. all the democrats would be going nuts. because it would be smart to go nuts because it s outrageous that our justice department can can be used by individuals with a political animus to try toe take down a candidate. that s wrong. i don t care if you re republican or democrat. i love you all, but that s we can t do that in our country. it kills our faith in these institutions. republican, democrat, can t do it. matt schlapp, close it out. that s why the timing of when he said he would stop it matters. that s when the russian investigation started. the reason why the comey letter went out so close to election day is that comey was dragging his feet. e it was the u.s. attorney st office who was pushing. highly inappropriate. that s what he was inappropriate and biased towards trump. laura: guys, we have to go. fantastic panel by