. former president donald j. trump has beenrand jury investig hush money payments to adult film star stormy daniels. it is the first time in american history that a current or former president is facing criminal charges, and cnn is now learning that trump is expected to be arraigned. early next week. now the grand jury has been hearing evidence and witness testimony related to $130,000 that trump s former fixer, michael cohen, paid stormy daniels before the 2016 election. that money was paid in exchange for her silence about an alleged affair she had with trump now source telling cnn and this is really important information. we re just getting that trump was completely caught off guard that right now he s in florida at a mar-a-lago that he had been caught off guard and that he thought that this was sort of. maybe maybe over. maybe bragg had gotten cold feet, so he suddenly released a statement after this news broke, saying, quote. this is this is in part. it s a longer statem
right, evan. thank you very much. and, of course, evans going to come back as the story is developing tonight. ryan goodman, karin agness, fellow john, dean and laura codes familiar to all of you are with us tonight. karen let me start with you. the former president of christian homes is reporting was surprised. and frankly, so were a lot of people because all the headlines that we ve gotten over the past 24 hours were the grand jury s going on hiatus for the next few weeks, and basically nothing s happening until then, and it raised the whole question and maybe nothing s happening at all. so this is a surprise. yeah i mean , it certainly seems like it s caught a lot of people off guard by this news. i mean, we have been talking all week about how there s still two days left that they could vote this before they go on hiatus. we said thursday and monday and things were getting really quiet at the da s office. people weren t talking. they were on super lockdown and i that to me signaled
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