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
through this a very intense prism of, a mannequin political view tha is two things think the other let me follow up on that is someone who has served as u.s. attorney prosecutor and run an office where you made thes calls. just to level it here, mos prosecutions in america, where those district attorneys i counties or federal, it mostly pleats. and particularly u.s. attorney offices typically brin incredibly strong cases and th vast majority of defendant plea that s the way the entire u.s. criminal justice follow works. when you know you re going t bring a case that is not going to plea, and when you know you re going to bring a case against someone who is going t have deep pockets and lots o lawyers and lots of support, a alvin bragg knows here, it s got to change the psychology o all of this. and then when it s a president the united states in you making history