you from los angeles and welcome everyone to alex wit reports. developing this, our new reaction today and a growing partisan divide after former president donald trump claim without evidence that th manhattan district attorney is planning to arrest on tuesday. the da s office declined t comment on those claims, which stem from an investigation int a hush money payment to stormy daniels. but nbc news has obtained an email sent by da alvin bragg telling staff they will not be intimidated. if indicted, donald trump woul be the first former u.s. president to face criminal charges, and early today democratic lot makers ar stressing that significance. no one is above the law that is a defining principle o the republic, and has been the case for 247 years it i outrageous there is no thing to low the sky cannot reach every time yo think he s reached, it he goes even further also that he is ver typical of the forme president. he attacks the person who is leading this investigat
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
question that being have you, michael spoken to stormi daniels at al since the money exchange at any point to talk about trump, to talk about our nda to talk about anything yes, so i did in fact, i spoke with a stormy at length on my podcast, mea culpa. there are two episodes there with her we ve texted back and forth an i ve spoken from time to tim just checking in she s a very nice person just to check into see how the other is doing and by text as well, every now and then i have spoken with her okay, i thank you for confirming that. it gives me a chance to answer a pete what i want to do anywa which is tell everyone you can hear more from michael on hi podcast, mea culpa he has written two excellent bestselling books. michael, thank you for joining me we will see more from you no doubt soon
garland for being too cautious too slow in his approach i think it s a legitimate question we don t exactly what happening behind the scenes. i will say, alex, jackson seem to have been very aggressive very quickly since these common a lot of people were concerned that he delay things i think it s been exactly th opposite there s been a lot of activity suddenly, mike pence is gettin hauled him to testify. attorney client privilege with trump s attorneys. all sorts of activities that w didn t really see during the first years the bide presidency i think it s a legitimat question i will say, from the perspective of prosecutors i have to think check smit wishes that his case - there are different units of government - run out, oh tell me why tha would make a difference. why do you think he wishes his case were going first? for a number reasons. for one thing, trump for example.
outrageous there is no thing to low the sky cannot reach every time yo think he s reached, it he goes even further also that he is ver typical of the forme president. he attacks the person who is leading this investigation i new york, rather tha addressing the underlyin conduct issue here but as trump faces possible legal peril, he is finding support within the republica party, from allies and eve some rivals. today, a number of prominent republicans appearing to defen the former president it jus feels like a politically-charged prosecution, here and for my part i jus feel like it is just not wit the american people want to se is another example of a tou tier system of justice think it is building a lot o sympathy for the forme president. i think the fact that i wa there this, morning some facts and none of them are big trump supporters, but they all sai they felt he was being