political. that s what they re saying we re hearing that from al corners of the republica party. we are also seeing investigations continuing in the house bay the republican chairman, that was under thi direction of speaker kevin mccarthy they have traded levers withou them and handbag tsv so letters here and capito hill, and so far the story i in manhattan with the former president. nbc news, that s juli tsirkin, thank you very much for that report. joining us now is joyce vance, from the msnbc lit calls, from the and andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel, an msnb legal analyst. he is also the cause of th prosecuting donald trump podcast. powerhouse legal panel to star us off and joyce, i would like to start with you we talk about treating trump like any other crimina defendant. and frankly, in the situation, it is a little bit different but here is a thing, this wa not a street arrest. this was not an arrest warrant
it is, by the way, deepl anti-semitic it has to do with, they thin he participated in the holocaust, all this stuff. i just want to recommend the book to people, caught emily taken by the influence of soros, if you want to read about hi actual influence, if you wan to read about the fact that he does fund a lot of democrati stuff, that you could be ver upset about, go right ahead. but it s not this kind o thing. he doesn t call alvin bragg an give him 1 million dollars and say go, take down donald trump that to your point, color o change did not get, i should say, 89% of the money he donated to it there is your mouth right there, folks stand down on that they probably won t. ben collins, we ll have yo back that s for sure. many thanks. coming up, we know how his supporters are reacting online but what about trump s political allies on capito hill, one being brought nearly to tears we need to help this man, thought old j trump! they are trying to drain him dry. at what point do th
okay, julie thank you for the prop up ther from capitol hill joining me right now is jason crow, a democratic member of the house intelligence and armed service committee. good to have you back on the broadcast let s get into i here i am curious what you make of potentially seeing a forme president indicted or, arreste and the kind of impact that is going to have both on capito hill, as well as across th country, hi,. alex first of, all way to talk with some facts here a lot o political accusations ar flying around number, one we don have kings and queens or royalty in america we just have americans every, american regardless o position or title is subject t the law and accountable to the law and every american also ha equal protection into du process, to former president trump has to be treated equally, and we will see what happens secondly, this is a really important points, politician do not indict people that is not how our system works. what happens is that granted
we continue to talk about trum and his tweet or as his messag was put out on social media, let s start with you on your reporting and what you have on the latest on that we well richard, this is no come as a surprise to donald trump or to his advisors they have been told it s their understanding that they believ he is going to be indicted i the future they haven t been told that by the da himself where we are written right now is essentially a holding pattern with the forme president doing the adul equivalent of a double dog adair to the new york district attorney to in fact follow through on this ground durin bass station it has been going on behin closed doors and actually issu an indictment. we don t know if or when tha is going to be coming, and w know the political fallout has already gotten we are seeing it from capito hill where some of the nation top republicans have indicated they will go to bat for th former president we may soon see it around th country. the other sort of
pence harshly criticize trump role in the january 6t insurrection, as well as trump s attempts to overturn that 2020 election president trump was wrong, pence said, and his reckless words endangered my family and everyone at the capitol that day. i know that history will hol donald trump accountable joining us now from capito hill is nbc news congressional correspondent, julie tsirkin julie, good morning, it always good to see you that some of the strongest language, julie, we ve heard from mike pence thus far what else did he say do we have any idea why he chose to say it now? yeah, good morning, katie look, former vice president, mike pence, made these comment at a private washington journa last night, in the room wher politicians and journalists. so, clearly he made thes comments knowing they will get around look, and terms of the timin here, vice president mike penc had said that he will announce sometime this spring whether h will run for president