the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts right now manhattan grand jury voted t indict john j trump on thursda for his role in paying hus money to a porn star today is the first day of the rest of don trump s life this is a monumental, historic importance. before tonight, president in this country were - now you are seeing citize trump being treated the same way that anyone else would regardless of the active o former president he s got to be photographed fingerprinted, he s got to appear before a. judge i believe that donald right now is petrified this is one of his biggest fears. tonight he is calling the indictment, quote, political persecution. the first thing the lawye tells you when you are indicte for somebody or charged with something s shutout. he does not have a good defense, his defense will be a reliance on politics, it wil only get uglier from thi moment on. get ready, stop on your legal seatbelt, we are going forward as a country that is goi
history, a former president. clare, i m dying to ask you a question but nail is the boy in the front row of this classroom. and he s feverishly been nodding his head so i know he wants to weigh in i want you to weigh in they ll because i know you had something to say about carol comments but also, i want you to explai for us why it is criticall important that these are state charges, and not federal yeah, just to take that first. because they are state charges and not federal, it means that these are not subject to a presidential pardon, show th republican win in 2024 they are also not subject to backroom federal deals so when karen s said that th southern district passed on th stormy daniels charges against donald trump in 2018 they didn t do so because th facts weren t there for th crimes who have been committed and put michael cohen in jail. it was just that bill barr sai