calling on people to protest. he expects to be indicted on tuesday on his truth social page today the former president urged supporters to, quote, take back our nation, ahead of what he says is his expected arrest days from now. he went on to say, they re killing our nation as we sit back and watch. we must save america and protest. but he appears to be speculating. the prosecutors are wrapping up the investigation into hush money payments made to porn star stormy daniels. we have learned there is at least one witness still expected to testify on monday. sources tell my colleague kristin holmes and i that trump s legal team has gotten no word from the manhattan da s office of any timing of a poe tpgsal indictment. if he is indicted the trumped team would be notified and likely negotiate any surrender and court appearance. the former president has been pushing his team to get the base riled up over the idea of a possible indictment because he believes it would help him politic
wow, this is someone i can relate to because they re doing the same thing about me. and as hurricane ian approaches landfall, the nightmare scenario for flooding, the west coast of florida. get ready and do not underestimate the potential that this storm can bring. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, im chris hayes. a final hearing of the january six committee has been postponed due to the approaching landfall of hurricane ian in fort s gulf coast. we ll be covering that in just a bit. but today the biggest criminal trial related to the insurrection actually began in washington. members of the far-right gang the oath keepers including its founder this man, elmer stewart rhodes the third are on trial for seditious conspiracy for what cause prosecutors say was accorded and premeditated effort to disrupt the peaceful plant transfer of power in the senate. all five members, and roads in particular has quite a colorful history. you notice for instance
Not so fun. Hours from now, former President Trump will be sitting in a manhattan courtroom as his Hush Money Trial is set to resume. This as the judge overseeing the case has yet to rule if trump violated his gag order. In washington, d. C. , the Supreme Court will hear Oral Arguments over trumps claim that he is immune from criminal prosecution in the d. C. Election interference case. Plus, arizonas Attorney General has charged mark meadows, rudy giuliani, and other key trump allies, as well as 11 socalled Fake Electors with state crimes after they attempted to keep trump in power following the 2020 election. I dont know. Did you see that coming . I did not. I didnt see that coming. I really didnt. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. Willie, did you see that coming . Not this one. I mean, we suspected it was coming sometime, but didnt see it coming yesterday. And some boldfaced names apparently among the group of aides to donald trump. Giuliani, meadows, eastman. Yeah. Apparently a
this is what the manhattan da says is their top priority. it s just it it it wreaks of the kind of political prosecution that we endured back in the days of the russia hoax and the whole impeachment over a phone call. the one thing i know is i know that former president trump can take care of himself. and of course it was just one week ago that we were talking about how former vice president pens was talking at a closed door dinner and he gave his sharpest rebuke talking about his actions on january 6th and clearly trying to distance himself from trump. that s also clearly not the case today. if you have any indication of where he or his allies believe, that s trump, this stands politically, he sent out a fundraising email fundraising off of this particular indictment, paula. that s remarkable. there is a difference, right, between what happened on january 6th and what s going on in
wants to see an immigration more, and how we should preserve the demographics of the united states. he also says of january six, that it wreaks of an intelligence operation. he wants the political prisoners arrested for evading evading the capital, released. he also reported paying the proud boys, one of the groups who led the attack, almost $11, 000, for consulting services. describe the proud boys as a drinking group. like he is pretty, real adjacent to the for this right, sort of the most dangerous pro coup elements of american politics. right, and it s someone like that who can win in a district like this. that sends a message that there is no limit. right? there is no kind of limiting principle of how far the republicans can go. if someone like that loses, in a district like, this it says to the republican party that this extreme trumpism is an electoral dead and two of the country. and this is what s key in the sea, marjorie taylor greene is an a plus 25 republican district