ali velshi we re following our top stor this morning in a new post for truth social former president donald trum is claiming that leaves from the manhattan district attorney s office indicate tha he will be arrested on tuesday he is calling for hi supporters to protest and quote, take our nation back to be clear, right now, this i just a claim being made by the former president the manhattan da s office ha declined to comment, and there has been no other indication w know of at this hour tha charges have been filed. in a statement following up on trump s post, a spokesman also confirmed that they have not received a notification that trump will be arrested o indicted trump s super pac that out a press release slamming manhattan s district attorney, alvin bragg. this comes after a week of major developments in the da s investigation into trump s rol in the hush money payment made to adult film star, stormy daniels. daniels met remotely wit manhattan prosecutors on wednesday. t
right i like to ask that question so everyone comes to the tabl knowing what all the possibilities are. jill, to stay also marks the 50th anniversary of th watergate tape, in which joh dean told nick said there was quote, cancer on the presidency put this current moment into perspective for us how does trump s possibl indictment, potentially, w won t know yet until maybe nex week, how does that compare to that scandal you know, if we had indicte richardton iksan, as i wante to do both while he was sittin president and certainly afte he resigned, we wouldn t b having all this hubbub about can you indict a forme president? of course you can. honestly, the prosecutors ar going to make their decision based on the facts and the law whether the facts support al the elements of the crime that they will charge, yes, o course they have to prepare fo
house committees investigate this potentially local investigation into the president, which is, of course so hugely significant and sh is saying quote, mccarth proves again through his leadership, the hous republicans will not tolerat the democrats weaponization of government and political persecution. you can see who mccarthy i appealing to when he made this tweet, made this statement, yo could see just how muc influence and pull some of the hard right members of his part have at this moment. as garrett told you earlier, the weaponization committe already exists under judiciary committee chairman jim jorda who, by the way, retweeted mccarthy s tweets, and that to his spokesperson, and i have not heard back on specific tex they are going to take on this it s very obvious that now which is hugely, hugel significant, mccarthy is going to use these house committees, federal committees, to look at something that is happening at the very local level
just so much influence trump continues to have over thi party, also just quickly here, jonathan, at leaks that fonda, a member of trump s leadership team, and it s also congresswoman from new york, putting out the statemen saying this is politically motivated. she is calling on democrats fo quote, taking down the leading republican presidentia candidate. so all of these threats coming together here in a big momen on capitol hill. notably, we have not heard fro other members, more moderate republicans, including, of course, minority leade mcconnell in the senate. he had some harsh words he traded in the past with th former president we are just going to continu to stay on top of all of this. nbc news congressiona correspondent, julie tsirkin thank you for that sam, we talked about thi earlier, the significance of speaker mccarthy s tweet what does it say to you that speaker mccarthy is throwing i with trump on this i think this is just
back to you. garrett s right. we shouldn t be surprised, not by what is right speaker mccarthy is directing the hous to do, given everything that we ve seen it s also something that given what the former presiden tweeted out today, that is going to be arrested on tuesday, that his call for a protest to quote, take back ou nation, and i m paraphrasing that s about 99% correct what does it say that th speaker of the house isn t pushing back, at least on th second part of that, i was going to say, tweet, but it wa on trump s own social medi platform got to respect that truth versus tweet distinction here, jonathan this is, i think, a very important moment right now there are two roads here for the republican party, and i