you from los angeles welcome to alex witt report, would be getting this hour o the investigation into donal trump s alleged hush money payments to film star tort stormy daniels he has been launching out on true to media today. he claims he will be arreste on tuesday clay calling th manhattan da office political. and calling for protests the manhattan da is declinin to comment but some spin campaign said th there has been no notification trump is rightly highlightin his innocence. his defenders have rallied mos notably, kevin mccarthy ca called it an outrageous abus of power by the da democrats are concerned that his social media post coul lead to violence i am just so struck b remembering back this mornin to the two impeachments that i was involved and asked unite states senator of donald trump and remembering my republica colleagues, some of my republican colleagues saying oh they believe that donal trump has learned a lesson fro these experiences. and yet, here we have to
news that was stormy daniels back in 2016 interest is growing for th former president as he proclaimed on his social media platform, he ll be arrested on tuesday. that comes as law enforcemen is preparing for a possibl indictment as early as nex week in the manhattan da s investigation to the storm daniels hush money case. that is according to fiv senior officials familiar with the preparations joining me now is stephani grisham, former white hous press secretary an communications director fo president trump. and chief of staff to firs lady melania trump she is also the author of th book, i ll take your questions now. what i saw at the trump whit house. stephanie, good to have yo back in the. broadcast let s get into this this truth social post, w are waiting to see of course o donald trump is arrested, but, it is his post straight out of the trump playbook why is he making thi announcement does he want to see protests does he believe that isn t somewhere beneficial to him? i think s
people as they fought against their regime. we must not and will not let them down. joining us live from london. nbc news foreign correspondent matt bradley, good to have yo with us following this story. appears the trump administration lending its full throat backing to the protesters. let s talk a little bit about what kind of appetite there is among the public for trump s support. not just trump. heard from mike pence and nikki haley at the u.n. especially after the nuclear play in the deal after the conclusion of the trump s travel ban. you know, some of the experts that we ve spoken to have said the u.s. president s tweets aren t likely to have any effect on the situation on the ground in iran. that s too bad that from the president s perspective because the iranian people are actually by middle eastern standards they re quite secular. a lot of them are quite sympathetic to the west because they ve lived under what is a very religious dogmatic regime
i don t work that way: i don t deal that way. i m not going to deal with that question. i m not playing. these are the games of washington. i m not. i m not playing. i m not digging that. jacqueline, good morning to you. good to have yo with us. in an interview, secretary of state refusing to answer that question that has been dodging him for the last couple of weeks, did he or did he not call president trump a moron. is this nonanswer by tillerson in the world of washington politics and speak, is that revealing at the relationship between trump and himself, the fact he would have come out and absolutely denied it. and do you think in some ways. it s problematic. it s unclear if he didn t call the president a moron why he wouldn t just come out and say that. whether he did is obviously very
players in this scandal, the people who worked at the tax agency in cincinnati where all of the outrage began across the country. so the head of 9 committee that looked in to this controversy has just announced that three new witnesses will appear before congress at that hearing on thursday. and he joins us now. darrel el issa, good to have yo back again. thank you for covering this upcoming hearing. although we ve received only 1% of the documents we ve asked from the irs, we ve interviewed over 12 witnesses and we ll have a smatherring of those on thursday so people can begin to understand that which we know for sure is true. and most importantly, that this was not isolated to cincinnati, but in fact went to washington and then went up the chain from there. as i understand it, one of the people that will be testifying is elizabeth, she worked in the continue sincinna,