the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts right now manhattan grand jury voted t indict john j trump on thursda for his role in paying hus money to a porn star today is the first day of the rest of don trump s life this is a monumental, historic importance. before tonight, president in this country were - now you are seeing citize trump being treated the same way that anyone else would regardless of the active o former president he s got to be photographed fingerprinted, he s got to appear before a. judge i believe that donald right now is petrified this is one of his biggest fears. tonight he is calling the indictment, quote, political persecution. the first thing the lawye tells you when you are indicte for somebody or charged with something s shutout. he does not have a good defense, his defense will be a reliance on politics, it wil only get uglier from thi moment on. get ready, stop on your legal seatbelt, we are going forward as a country that is goi
for. it that was not the merric garland justice department, it was not the bronco boma justic department, it was the donal trump justice department tha made that filing so every time you hear thi thing about this hush mone thing is political, remember it was trump s own justice department that called this crime back in 2018 we will be speaking t michael cohen s lawyer, lonnie davis a little later in th hour and neil, just so you know earlier this evening i spoke t her lawyer stephanie clifford no longer goes by that name, it is onl stormy daniels she was actually horseback riding when the news broke when she went inside her, much like many othe people, trump and his lega team included her phone wa blowing up, she is completel surprised by the news today. glenwood do you think? you know steph, i have to believe that alvin bragg s team, if they saw fit to bring thi
particularly around januar 6th. it is deeply concerning for people who have potentiall paid of adult film stars and then tried to deduct that from their income taxes, for people who fall under that umbrella i is seriously concerning. caroline, in neil glenn kirschner, clair mccaskill, thank you all for being here tonight when we come back, michael cohen s lawyer lonnie davi joins me live when the 11t hour continues ivity gum & enamel relieves sensitivity, helps restore gum health, and rehardens enamel. i m a big advocate of recommending things that i know work. - double check that. i meh, pretty good!of (whistles) yeek. not cryin , are ya? let s tighten that. (fabric ripping) ooh. - wait, wh- wh- what was that? - huh? what, that? no, don t worry about that. here we go. - asking the right question can greatly impact your future. - are, are you qualified to do this? - what? - especially when it comes to your finances. - yeehaw! - do you have a question? - are you a certified financia
michael cohen, all 18 or s visits to the da s office, i your experience the amount o corroboration, the amount of detail and effort that you are seeing this prosecutorial team go to, have you ever seen that before no, although i m not criminal defense lawyer, i v been a lawyer for over 50 year and i know the differenc between lawyers who get into granular detail, built up case fact by fact, that corroborate facts with the documents and corroborate documents with checks messages and telephon calls. and surround every fact with corroboration an documentation. nobody out, there is not one talking, had not with all du respect, know the detailed cas that they have built up over all of this time and i hea talking heads speculating, wel this case is weak. how do you know it is week i you do not know what their evidence is? why doesn t everybody keep their dog trump is innocent unti proven guilty, but wait fo
politics just wart storm daniels telling her story an there s so much evidence tha he paid, while president of th united states, $35,000 a month from his personal checking account, to reimburse michae cohen for the hush money payments that the federa prosecutors that were illegal, that it is literally beyond by imagination that it is going t come down to michael cohen, wh received a check from donald trump while he is president, that that track was not part o the reimbursement s game go further with me. while we do not know what th charges are, what you just sai to me, he is not a critica witness. however, however he was ther 18 different times because wha it sounds like is they are crossing every possible, t and dotting every i. alvin bragg has such a high ba that he has to meet, and thi is unprecedented that we hav ever seen this happen. so as a lawyer who went with