Donald trump. The Breaking News this hour we are following a defiant former president of the United States on the way to his new Jersey Golf Club right now after being arrested and arraigned on four serious, very serious criminal charges, stemming from his alleged efforts to subvert the 2020 president ial election in the United States. Trump proclaiming his innocence and accusing the Special Counsel of leading a political persecution. Wolf, of course, this is trumps third indictment in the past four months. It is the most serious set of charges he ever faced. As he did in new york and miami, the former president pleaded not guilty to all four counts today, Conspiracy To T Defraud the u. S. , conspiracy to obstruct proceed, obstruction of a proceeding and conspiracy against rights. I want to go our senior justice Correspondent Evan Perez from outside the federal courthouse here in washington where the former president made his initial appearance this afternoon. Evan, walk us through wha
davis, michael cohen s attorney, we will speak to in just a few moments, confirmed to axio that his client provided manhattan prosecutors with documentation about a trum hush money payments made to second woman who claims to hav had a affair with them that suggests the case b district attorney alvin brag could actually be broader than the stormy daniels payment also breaking pressed about why trump was in not charged earlier, he told msnbc today that he was aske to stand down by his the bosses we are looking at these so-called hush money payment and then we learned from the southern district of new yor that they asked us to stan down and i stand down i mean they were communicating that they had this ongoing investigation in the west that we put ou efforts on hold while they completed their investigation. and i felt that it was appropriate for me to press th pause button so for the course of more than a year and a half now, that is what we did. i was surprised, after micha
welcome back. 12:00 p.m. eastern, 9:00 a.m. pacific. i m in for andrea mitchell. we begin with a major shake up in israel. netanyahu announcing today he is dissolving the war cabinet, which has been responsible for managing the war effort for more than eight months. this comes as israel s military says it will pause fighting along the route in southern gaza for 11 hours a day to allow humanitarian aid in for the millions of desperate palestinians. netanyahu reportedly disagreeing with this pause calling it quote, unacceptable. the idf says it struck targeting after hezbollah launched a barrage of rockets in israel on friday. joining us now, raf sanchez in tel aviv. let s start with you. why did the israeli prime minister dissolve the war cabinet and what does it mean? reporter: primarily because those centrist opposition figures who joined his government a week after the october 7th attack in a show of national unity have now walked out of the government. they left with a p
call he had where it says trump berated him for not going along with efforts to reject the election, telling him quote, you re too honest. and also going after trump calling him a person who relied on a bunch of crack pot lawyers. so he s speaking out in a way he hasn t before. what do you think about the way he s handling this? i think it s finally happening. he needs to be separating himself from trump. i think he s right to run with that. i think wear that as a badge of honor to be called too honest. i think pence should run on the make truth great again campaign. we need to be talking truth here and that would be to his benefit. look, you know, i actually have seen this dynamic before between trump and pence. i saw it honestly during the covid pandemic where pence was at times too honest. his press conferences were going a little too well and too factual and trump was annoyed and got upset with him and then
request to resign. in months later, he said h believed that if he had stayed donald trump would have aske him quote, to do something inappropriate. years later, the trump appointee to oversee the southern district of new york, jeffrey berman, released a book in that book, he alleged tha trump sought to use the u.s. attorney s office to support trump s politically, and pursu his critics, even pushing th office to opening a criminal investigation of forme secretary of state john kerry. so, while we can t reall connect the dots, maybe you, the audience, can. a short time ago i spoke about these developments and a whole lot more with michael cohen attorney, lanny davis. watch. lanny davis, thank you so much for joining us. this morning, former manhattan da cy vance revealed to nb news that he was told to quote stand down on the trump hush money investigation. by the u.s. attorney s offic in the southern district vance went on to say that afte