manhattan as early as next week. this is according to five senior officials familiar with the preparations and in the worlds of unprecedented, this would be the absolute definition of it. a former president has never been criminally indicted before, never. so local law enforcement agencies are running the possible scenarios, going through potential security plans, gaming out the variables, according to the same officials, who also stress that this is a just in case no charges have been filed and nbc news cannot report that any decision has yet been made that we know of more on what this means in a moment because it could get pretty complicated we also have new reporting from the washington post that could have a significant bearing on the special counsel investigation into january 6th the post has reviewed a copy of a report called project 2020. a study trump s team paid for but never released to investigate the election results in six key states that he lost according
of course, here, the question ir what were to come if donald trump was to be indicted. there is a base of support that you see in the republican party for donald trump and that is reflected in polling. we haveú investigations, from impeachments to the latest mar-a-lago raid in august, donald trump s poll numbejg don t really move when he s at the center of attention around these types of investigations. his bas■$f support, has consistently tuck behind him. of course, the early state is key to donald trump s nomination effort here and he told me he s been fielding phone calls over the last 48e1e1 hours from othe republican activists asking what they can do to show their support for theñ former presidet and he tells me he wants donald trump to continue to be out in the d2■forefront of this fight. donald trump led them to believe that there are democraticñi prosecutorial efforts meant to p
privately to donald trump s counsel and arrange for that arraignment hearing to take place. as far as we re aware right now, donald trump is still here at his mar-a-lago private club. as for donald trump himself, this morning, though, posting multiple videos in which he derides the multiple investigations into him, including this manhattan district attorney s hush money payment investigation. take a listen to part of those straight-to-camera videos. these four horrible, radical left democrat investigations of your all-time favorite president, me, is just a continuation of the most disgusting witch hunt in the history of our country whether it s the mar-a-lago raid or the unselect committee hoax, the perfect georgia phone call it was absolutely perfect. or the stormy horse face daniels extortion plot, they re all sick the doj, the fbi, the local