playground for your misplaced anger. although we have no specific threats people like marjorie taylor greene, who is known to spread misinformation and hate speech, she stated she s coming to town. while you re in town be on your best behavior. new york city mayor eric adams with a warning ahead of historic day here in manhattan donald trump will become the first former president of the united states to face criminal charges. we ll go through the time line of this arraignment and tell you about the new member of his legal team plus there s also new action in the classified documents investigation as special counsel jack smith sends subpoenas to people who are always with the former president and later voters in wisconsin today will decide what many are calling the most consequential race in that state in decades we ll explain why that description is not hyperbole good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, april 4th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for star
order to sort of try to foreshadow some of what we can be expecting from the team, and there are some parallels if you look back at people like john edwards, for example, who face very similar charges, trump s legal team has so far sort of tried to foreshadow they re going to be maybe potentially mirroring a defense akin to john edwards. i think it depends what the indictment shows today trump s legal team is going to be seeing that for the very first imtine court and i think that will dramatically shape which direction they go forward, but as we know right now alvin bragg has sort of pointed at a misdemeanor charge of falsifying business records in furtherance of another crime focused on this hush money payment to stormy daniels in 2016, which was ultimately elevated to a felony.
persecution. reporter: the court appearance is only expected to last a few minutes and former president trump plans to leave new york returning to florida immediately after the proceedings. yeah, and again the former president does plan to talk publicly about the day s events from mar-a-lago this evening we also know that the district attorney here, alvin bragg, is set to discuss the case during a press briefing just after the arraignment. jonathan, a lot to play out here it is a historic day in lower manhattan. it is, and we ll have live reports throughout the morning from the courthouse there in lower manhattan. nbc s jay gray, thank you so very much. joining us now former u.s. attorney and an msnbc contributor barbara mcquade. barbara, great to see you again this morning we know some of what donald trump will be charged with today, about 30 counts or so what is the likelihood we will in the hours ahead learn about the entirety of the charges.
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ensconced trump. i look at it from this perspective i look we live in american festus. this is seven years, ago statute of limitation, nothing can air s heart of hearts, you know too, that you think this is just political. how prepared are house republicans for an actual indictment of the former president? simone, we just saw the top three charm in, on monday, send a letter to alvin bragg, acoustic information, and documents accusing him of being politically woke very we do, jordan chance, calmer bryant steel. for the judiciary, intelligence, and administration committee s respectively. it is major for them, and they re trying to get ahead of this. and what we saw, where mccarthy was speaking, the house republican retreat, house republicans flew down to orlando, their yearly, meeting when they talk about the