the indictment of the former president donald trump i m here tonight with my msnbc colleagues, jonathan came our, host of the saturday and sunda shows. host of simone, and katie phang, host of the katie phang show in just less than 24 hours, th president will be teflon don coming to an end. nbc news has one of the around 30 counts related t trump s alleged role in th hush money payments made t stormy daniels he will appear in court in new york city on tuesday his campaign now says trum will give a speech a mar-a-lago that same evening trump s legal team said toda they are quote, not doin anything, and quote, at th enrollment, but will instead wait for the arraignment to be unsealed we will take the indictment we will dissect it the team will look at ever potential issue that we will b able to challenge and we wil challenge it of course a very muc anticipate emotions becaus there s no law that fits this. there is no law that fits this we are likely to get a first loo
of tonight s republican presidential debate, a debate that, again, was a republican debate but the candidates themselves came back to the topic of republicans losing. they kept bringing it up themselves, unprompted. we ve lost 2018, 2020, 2022, no red wave that never came. we got trounced last night in 2023. i m sick of republicans losing. look, people they are cheering for. losing in the republican party. we ve become a party of losers at the end of the day. and yes, the man who has been the leader of the republican party in the period in question, through all of that losing, this is pretty much as closed as anyone got to outrun out criticizing former president and current presidential front runner donald trump, tonight. i can talk about president trump. i can tell you that i think he was the right president at the right time. i don t think he s right president now. i think that he put us eight trillion dollars in debt, and our kids are never gonna forgive us for
much of, more than a year i should say, trying to build a case against trump for his role in the insurrection. union colleagues studies trump closely, you spoke to people who knew him, and worked with him. our democracy barely survived the first trump term, can our institutions withstand another one? thank you for having me jen. we survived because of the strength and resiliency of the capitol officers and the political leaders who insisted that we go back in and count the electoral college votes. everybody, all americans across the political system, republicans and democrats who rejected trump s attempts to impose a coup in the 2020 election, like secretary of state raffensperger in georgia said he was not just going to go ahead and find thousands of votes that did not exist for trump. so there were a lot of people who stood up. the problem now is that trump
eventually playing a major role in civic life in indianapolis where i grew up. she s very much missed this mother s day. i know she is, and i know she would be so incredibly proud of you and her family and her grandkids as well. ron klain, thank you for joining me today. thanks for having me jen. everyone remember to call your mom, today. i know i will. we ve much more to come this hour including much more on the appearance by former vice president mike pence before the grand jury investigating donald trump on january 6th. i ll talk to an attorney who just argued his 50th case before the supreme court. and later, my thoughts on tucker carlson s abrupt departure from fox news. and why i don t have high hopes that much will change in his absence. we are back after a quick break.
what was so striking for me jen, maybe you learned som additional, or you som additional information, in the conversation that you had with cy vance, this was so, this wa the first time that cy vance actually cleared up why he did not bring charges. he said the southern distric of new york, at the time, bill barr was the attorney genera of united states, told him t stand down on th investigation. it was striking to me that thi was the first time that we heard that why do you think we are no just finding out tha information? i will note after he spoke t you, i was looking that he did an interview on npr where he said the same thing. what do you think? we learn more about the