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
would not want your children t emulate, whose behavior yo described, correctly to your children, as problematic a best so, a lot of folks right now are sort of hoping against hop that this does, for them, what they themselves would not do and they placed that hope in somebody like ron desantis, wh just got punched by making the so i do not know if that is go to, either, to be honest. but we can talk about that later as well. trust me, i have a lot of time for talking about wha happened to ron desantis and disney, just not tonight given the importance and severity of this news. you know, juanita, there are people out there who are rolling their eyes saying what was this hush money? a porn star? seven years ago? haven t we gotten over that? forgetting the fact that thi hush money situation, thes payments, are directly tied to