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
embassies garrett hague, mar-a-lago in west palm beac florida. garrett, welcome to you. tell me all that you hearing about trump world about donald trump saying that he is goin to be arrested on tuesday. donald trump s allies hav been preparing for thi possibility for weeks, if no months if following this case closely and as you pointed out, they don t have any more specific information than do you or i i fact, the trump campaign spokesman indicated in his cleanup message to reporters there is nbc news reporting, that made them first aware tha this indictment, if it comes could come as soon as next wee but politically speaking talking only about the politic here, the trump team and his sort of wider constellation of allies have leaned into this moment, have leaned into thi possibility, to be able to cas the former president a standing up against what the see as a liberal, weaponized justice system you are seeing it from trump allies on twitter toda primarily, making th inv
karine jean-pierre said they would let their legal team and all the questions. that they didn t stop by didn t. he said he has no regrets with how he handled top-secret material claiming there is no there there to this kendall. the house judiciary committe and republican congressman jim jordan. great to have you here. the briefing as set to begin an moment now, why is the white house not answering more questions, why is karine jean-pierre so unprepared to have any transparency with the american people. nothing makes sense with thi rate i kind of go back to the fundamental question why were they looking into it in the first place? why did they send lawyers to search i think pointed out to date in the wall street journal that joe biden gets his players they get to search the documents , trump can t even have his present when the fbi is there. this double standard, the lack of transparency at think has been evident from the get-go when it comes to transparent, o december 2nd
for. it that was not the merric garland justice department, it was not the bronco boma justic department, it was the donal trump justice department tha made that filing so every time you hear thi thing about this hush mone thing is political, remember it was trump s own justice department that called this crime back in 2018 we will be speaking t michael cohen s lawyer, lonnie davis a little later in th hour and neil, just so you know earlier this evening i spoke t her lawyer stephanie clifford no longer goes by that name, it is onl stormy daniels she was actually horseback riding when the news broke when she went inside her, much like many othe people, trump and his lega team included her phone wa blowing up, she is completel surprised by the news today. glenwood do you think? you know steph, i have to believe that alvin bragg s team, if they saw fit to bring thi
justice department found michael cohen guilty that same justice department this is the federal justic department, says that michae cohen s actions were directe by individual number one, whic we know to beat donald trump and that this wasn t legitimat expenses for legal fees and th like, but that it was hush money. now the most important fac about this is that that was no the obama justice department making that finding. it was not the merrick garland justice department making that finding, it was donald trump s own justice department tha made that finding in federal court. so, you know, when you hear al this talk about this is al politicized in the like, i think it is important to remember that trump s ow justice department drew similar conclusion back then but of course there was doctrine that said that sittin presidents could be indicted for federal crimes trump is no longer a sitting president. i tell, you that perspectiv