midnight on the east coast i am stephanie ruhle and we ar continuing our breaking news coverage of the indictment o former president donald trump. the grand jury in manhatta indicted him earlier today making trump the first forme president to ever face crimina charges in our nation history. those jurors have been hearing evidence of hush money payments, made to adult film star stormy daniels during the 201 presidential campaign. trump s current lawyers issued a statement saying he did no commit any crime and they plan to vigorously fight this political prosecution. one trump attorney tells nbc trump is expected to b arraigned on tuesday in ne york let s bring in our panel o experts to break it all down simone sanders townsend, msnbc host and former chie spokesperson for kamala harris harry lippman, former u.s. attorney and deputy assistan journey jonathan allen, senior analyst reporter for nbc news. and tim o brien, bloomberg opinion senior columnist and the man who wrote
remains under seal but according to two sources familiar with the matter, trum is facing around 30 charges as a related to documents rob security in and around the men hat and court house who is bee beefed ever since trump bega making intimidating post o truth social directed at the manhattan district attorney office for weeks now, the twice impeached ex president has bee vigorously attacking alvin bragg online also attacking virtually the entire american justice system as the grand jury an prosecutors in manhattan get closer to indicting him. and in his first official 2024 campaign rally in waco, texas, last saturday night. his supporters held up posters that said witch hunt as he delivered a speech tha contains many baseless accusations that the prosecutors currentl investigating him ar politically motivated to tak him down given though he has been s previously occupied with the idea of being indicted, th news on thursday coming that h was actually going to be indicted sti
headlines in the days, weeks months, even years to come right now, donald trump and hi golf club in west palm beach set to become the first former president to appear in court a a criminal defendant here is what is expected t unfold trump will arrive in new yor city monday night, tuesday around 1 pm or so, he ll b driven from trump tower to the courthouse as of now, he will not b handcuffed, nor will he be placed in a holding cell he will be booked, and vigor printed. tuesdays also when we re expected to learn the exac charges trump is facing. earlier, the former president lawyers gave some new strategy details. we re not doing anything because that would b showmanship, and nothing more. we haven t even seen the indictment yet we will take the indictment, w will dissect it, we will loo at every potential issue tha will be able to challenge, i very much anticipates meanwhile, the reaction fro a lawyer, trump s former attorney, points to the star witness in the hush mo
presidents hutchison also we had readines call for trump to withdraw the indictment sparks ne reactions from capitol hill. today, lawmakers on both sides are wayne and ahead of tuesday s arraignment. it s a very sad time fo america. i feel like other people are sad for our country to g through this no one should be above th law, but no one should be target of the law. let the criminal proces play out i do think this is politically motivated. it s one thing when you have counsel culture, it s anothe when you have a counsel of criminal justice system. moments ago, we have learne that donald trump plans to speak from his mar-a-lago club on tuesday night after he returned to florida from new york that will be after his arraignment. we ll have a lot of that, an we also have a lot of ne ground to cover this hour fo you. we have reporters in place fro florida, washington and lee, aunt we re going to start as welcome you all with nbc s vaughn - hillyard he s in west palm
donald trump and criticisms of alvin bragg and george - that is exactly the range,, al and you can see the former par of senator bacon from nebraska is that those who are willin to go hammer alvin bragg o behalf of donald trump, an those who are silent and i some cases, there is support for trump mixed with the hammering of alvin bragg notably, we haven t really see a lot of that support for trum from around desantis, hi leading rival for th republican nomination. although we saw a weird comment that when i were talking about on friday mornin from rhonda santas, where he said i will not allow for an extradition. there has been no discussion o an extradition because there i been no discussion that donald trump will resist the idea tha he has to go to manhattan whic is expected to do tomorrow t get arraigned on tuesday ron desantis jumped the gun on this one and trying to extradite donald trump fro florida, i am not participatin in this, which struck some o us as a little odd why are