you from los angeles and welcome everyone to alex wit reports. developing this, our new reaction today and a growing partisan divide after former president donald trump claim without evidence that th manhattan district attorney is planning to arrest on tuesday. the da s office declined t comment on those claims, which stem from an investigation int a hush money payment to stormy daniels. but nbc news has obtained an email sent by da alvin bragg telling staff they will not be intimidated. if indicted, donald trump woul be the first former u.s. president to face criminal charges, and early today democratic lot makers ar stressing that significance. no one is above the law that is a defining principle o the republic, and has been the case for 247 years it i outrageous there is no thing to low the sky cannot reach every time yo think he s reached, it he goes even further also that he is ver typical of the forme president. he attacks the person who is leading this investigat
manhattan da s investigation no one is above the law that is the defining principle of the republic and has been the case for 247 years it s another example of two tier system. it s outrageous, and ther is no too low i can t reach. every time you think he ha bottomed out, he goes even further. i think he s building a lot of sympathy for the former president. i think the fact i was wit coffee this morning with folks none of them were big trum supporters and they all said, they felt like he was being attacked also this hour, we are just hours away from a meeting that has the u.s. and the world o edge russian president vladimi putin and his chines counterpart, xi jinping, later this hour i will talk to congressman seth moulton about the threat of unified russia and china. as another state targets the abortion pill, we will look at what may be the next big hop for abortion rights advocate in ohio. more on that ahead, but we wil start with breaking news tha attorney robe
new york grand jury has voted to indict the former president of the united states. donald trump. this is the first time in us history the first time in us history that criminal charges have been filed against anyone who has served as president of the united states. the charges coming after the investigation of hush money paid to former adult film star stormy daniels to cover up her alleged affair with trump. this has huge implications not only for trump but also for the nation as the former president makes another run for the white house right now, our correspondents, analysts and contributors are all standing by as we cover this breaking story and what comes next paris canal is on the scene for us. let s go to your first year there in new york. you re watching all of this unfold. tell our viewers what else you re learning. well, that s right. we learned that in manhattan grand jury has returned an indictment against former president donald trump. as you said, the first time
to comment but it appears they are basing this case on an untested legal theory president trump is criticizing the theory as well as da alvin bragg hours after posting this on truth social. the former president wrote in part, with no crime being able to be proven and based on an old fully debunked by numerous other prosecutors fairytale, the republican candidate and former president of united states of america will be arrested on tuesday of next week if this case centers around one 30,000 dollars hush money payment to adult film actress stormy daniels on the eve of the 2016 presidential election. president trumps lawyer at the time michael cohen we did guilty to his role in the payment in a federal case and claims it was meant to keep daniels quiet about alleged affair trump the nice. federal prosecutors claimed the former president and his business reimbursed infer that payment but the questions are, how to trump financial record the payment and can prosecutors prove he to p
disrupting an official deliberation at the state capital in what some are comparing to the insurrection, ignoring the 2020 riots, 574 that nobody wants to investigator arrest people for. anyway, a full report straight ahead also coming up, a big development from the beg us indictment on donald trump now breaking today, the house judiciary committee jim jordan issued a subpoena to a fanatical trump hating attorney who worked under alvin bragg under this case. pierce morgan interviewed stormy daniels for 90 minutes. and i have one big question for pierce. it s a big one. now he confronted her about the signed document, 2018 where she said it was not i took the money but i never had an affair. now, if you are on a jury and somebody signed that document and then says no, i didn t mean it, would you believe her then or now? who knows. also later tonight, giving into the woke crowd, nike and bud light are facing a wave of criticism after partnering with a woke trans activity that