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
this is msnbc s continuing coverage of the indictment o former president donald j trump, time elevation you york, after becoming the first president i u.s. history to be impeached twice, donald trump has made history yet again, becoming th only ex president to face criminal indictment. on thursday, a grand jury vote to indict the former president as part of manhattan distric attorney alvin weiss investigation into a hush mone payment made to and at fil star stormy daniels, in 2016 that indictment is currently sealed that means we don t know the specific charges being levie against donald trump but we do know that bag ha been focusing on a felon charge, of falsifying business records, which carries a maximum sentence of four years it means that he s formerl charged with a crime but there are still severa steps in the coming days, the ex president is expected to surrender himself to authorities, after which h will be taken into custody like any other person charge with the, c
what they think. chuck rosenberg, what is you take there is a lot in the indictment that did no surprise me, we have bee hearing for a long time it would be related to the hush money payments and therefore false entries on the books and records of the trump organization but there are some reall fascinating detail in th company statement of facts tha prosecutors filed yesterday, which shows, a couple of things one, their theory for elevatin those false records and thos false entries into felonies, violations of election law state and federal, and the hin of a plan to violate state - law. you also see the sensuality of not just michael cohen to this scheme, but also - clear to me from the statement of facts, and the prosecutor can prove everything in that statement of facts tha minister pecker woul essentially publishes th national enquirer wa responsible for the catch an kill stories, is a reall important witness. he had private conversations with trump, and in those convers
a former president and current presidential candidate puts ou democracy in uncharted territory. trump is already lashing out attacking the investigators, them integrating our justice system, and calling on his supporters to protest. that s all without making an of the pleas for peace w normally expect from someone seeking to lead our nation and republicans, for the mos part, have rallied around him, echoing his claims that th legal system has bee weaponized for those of us with lon memories, no trump has littl regard for the rule of law he did not care about du process when he was calling fo the central park five to b executed before the had thei day in court he did not care about politica witch hunts when he campaigned on lock up, locking up his opponent hillary clinton, with chance of lock her up. and now it appears as if trump s refusal to live by the same rules as the rest of us may finally be catching up wit him. and if it does, the paybac will be richly deserved. it s a
committed, no matter what th crime, no matter how, big ho serious the crime is, jump has done a great job a desensitizing the public telling people who would b arrested when he wasn t goin to be arrested, drumming u 24-hour coverage so that by th time it happens, everyone ha already heard everything we have been hearing about thi case for years, alvin brag said there is more evidence. he did not have to share exactly what that was, but m question to you is, no one i saying trump did not do this i don t even hear trump saying that so again, the public politically desensitized t just how and seemingly it migh be for a president to pay off porn star in order to influenc the election, or keep his wife from finding out about it. who knows what his intent was. but could there be a possibility of a secondary indictment, or what are th