anymore. and here we are now. thank you so much, joyq■. good evening, from new york, i am chris hayes, andñr■it is a big night with major historic breaking news. and i mqgoing to be with you for the next hour entirely. and after that, the one and only rachel maddow will be here. kmt. x■so, we expect that somelp time early next week that the former president of these united states willoki] surrender to the manhattan district attorney s office where he will be arrested and face arraignment on felony criminal charges. and that m■jul■ afternoon a grand jury in manhattan voted to indict donald trump i of their son baron. this is the culmination of an investigation that s been five years and two districtf■ attorneys. in recent weeks, as the case neared a close, or appeared to, we saw key witnesses testify before the grand juryñr■ down i■ m■attan, including michael cohen, trump st■r and fixer, who actk!ñ■made the payments toçó■daniels in october of 201
department of justice under hi and under bill barr, you know, to be personal for a moment, but it also, is widely known - i represented michael cohen, not criminal case but in the successful bid to get hi sprung from prison after he wa unlawfully remanded into solitary confinement for darin to publish a book about hi experience with former president trump. i also represented michael avenatti in a very separat matter we are confluence whatever you want to say about him, this was in his federal - trial. he was, as a first-tim defendant and defender, pr trial, he was also - solitary confinement and so, again, this was perversion of the rule of la under the former president so, there s a lot of irony i his statements