midnight on the east coast i am stephanie ruhle and we ar continuing our breaking news coverage of the indictment o former president donald trump. the grand jury in manhatta indicted him earlier today making trump the first forme president to ever face crimina charges in our nation history. those jurors have been hearing evidence of hush money payments, made to adult film star stormy daniels during the 201 presidential campaign. trump s current lawyers issued a statement saying he did no commit any crime and they plan to vigorously fight this political prosecution. one trump attorney tells nbc trump is expected to b arraigned on tuesday in ne york let s bring in our panel o experts to break it all down simone sanders townsend, msnbc host and former chie spokesperson for kamala harris harry lippman, former u.s. attorney and deputy assistan journey jonathan allen, senior analyst reporter for nbc news. and tim o brien, bloomberg opinion senior columnist and the man who wrote
action from trump and hi allies so, a lot of people are kind o dismissing, it it is old, it s a seven years old. like you said stephanie, the reality is that without this key piece, none of that stuf probably would ve happened so it is important to emphasiz that also emphasize the fact that n crime is too small to be punishable because we regula americans out here would hav to face the music if it was an of us. so why would trump be held any differently? i think that level o accountability is a first step and has got a lot of republicans stroke we heard the audible gasps o that right ring network wher they were just like what completely cross guard because trump has lived in a row where he has no basic accountability decades and decades of crime and wrongdoings an questionable behavior. i was gone unchallenged because he ha operated above the law, but as we saw multiple democrats pu out statements today sayin that there is no one above the law.