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
they now run the house and they have not put an legislation on the table t deal with that as well congresswoman stace plaskett, thank you so much fo your time tonight. thank you all right, on this bi evening, we turn now to vaughn hillyard, my colleague who s i and this nbc news correspondent, he s been covering donal trump s 2024 campaign. he s live in new york outsid of the manhattan da s office and last weekend he was on the plane with the ex president, after his rally in waco, texas vaughn, it seems like they are going to get the ex presiden up there for an arraignmen next week. is that your understanding right and for the number of times think donald trump does no want to be arrested, does no want to be indicted, they ve been given no suggestion tha they would not come here to ne york already standing at this time, they do plan as of early nex week, to come here to lowe manhattan a criminal court building here is right across the street fro the manhattan district attorne
right to obtain powerful myself and there s also, chris haye let s talk about the erosion o americans confidence in th rule of law. that s also part of what the are doing here by trying to make us believe that the federal government, the fbi, and others have som conspiracy to try to take away rights of americans, they ar putting up smoke screens because they have not done anything in congress to make americans lives better they are holding our deb hostage. they have not produced a budge other than a screenshot of a sheet of paper from the freedo caucus they are not passing any law that are working to make americans lives better, to gro the economy, to assist wit jobs remember that thing inflatio that they ran on that they were so obsessed wit and how they were the only one who could try and bring it down?
because he wants to still hold on to the myth that, because i am these things and have thi status, i should be treate differently. and that s part of what all of america is seeing does not hold but it s important t understand that we, as americans, are about to get front roast seat in the hous that is actually plays out whe you see these things tak place. let s be clear don trump is no regula defended he does have resources that th average person is not going to have and as andrew weissmann just alluded to, they are going t be a number of legal maneuvers throughout this entire process even with his little case, thi little case, quotation marks here in new york that are goin to have him tied up in court o purpose yes - much longer than your average defended and that s also a function o status and i will pick up on another point that is kind o baked into those comments, i the irony, perversely, o donald trump attacking thi prosecution as inconsisten with the rule of law, given th