for the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now trump indicted. the first ever crimina indictment of a former president of the united states the first time in his lif that the guy is actually min held accountable for his own dirty deeds. did you think this day woul actually come with this man? karma is a bench. we don t know what happen in this event. but we do know that th republican party has decided that it s not going to take an off ramp once again. give the president some money to fight this bowl [bleep]. in washington, trump buddies in the house are still demanding that essentially d break hand over all thei evidence to them you have no jurisdictio here it will require them to b pro of money payment to poin stars, pro insurrection, pro classified documents sitting around in mar-a-lago thereafter before so many things oh, those prosecutors. this is a genuine test of how much are we are as a democracy that believes in liberty under law. and i don
it s the first time in hi life that the guy is actuall being held accountable for his own dirty deeds. did you think that this day would ever come for this man karma is a big pitch. we don t know what but what we do know is that th republican party has decided i not going to take an off ram once again give the president some money to bite this bowl [bleep so demanding that da brag essentially hand over all of his evidence - you have no jurisdictio here it will require them to b pro-hush money payments to por stars, pro insurrection, pro classified documents sitting around at mar-a-lago - arrested me for so many things oh, those prosecutors. this is a genuine test of how much war we are as a democracy that believes in liberty under law. and i don t know how we ar going to do. good evening once again i m stephanie ruhle, back at msnbc headquarters in new york city donald trump s true hometown this weekend, the former president will likely be preparing
stephanie ruhle, you still hav a show to do tonight at 11 eastern. we ve got lots to go lots to go now it s time to hand the whee to our colleague lawrenc o donnell. thank you, rachel donald trump was speaking, a you, know during your coverage and after the judge said i court today that he wanted the parties to this case to stop saying inflammatory things donald trump went right afte the judge and his wife today so, tonight, in that speech. so, we ll see, the judge could react to that very quickly after setting the preceden today in today s arraignment for, you know, don t do that kind of thing. so, we ll see what happens next we are entering potentially a new area of consequences for that kind of behavior for that particular politician. we are. thank you, rachel. thank you. today, donald trump took the longest trip of his life it was from his apartment in midtown manhattan to the courthouse in lower manhattan, where he would be fingerprinte and discover the contents of
but the question came up in ou coverage earlier about why the southern district of new york, after the trump administration was gone and after merrick garland and the ne administration was in charge o the southern district of new york, why they didn t go forward with this kind o prosecution against donald trump when he had been named a individual one in the michae cohen case, where michael cohe went to prison through tha federal case i had suggested that som former u.s. attorneys in the southern district have sai that the policy there is fou witnesses like michael cohen t tell the u.s. attorneys ever single line they have ever crossed in their lives everything since isaac. and that michael cohen wasn willing to do that, an therefore the southern distric did not want to rely on him in a case like this is that why the southern
typical donald trump posture where he s ready to be combative on something h believes is an injustice this was a personal resolution for a personal matter, tha would ve been made irrespectiv of the campaign. so, with those facts together, there is no crime. president trump will not take plea deal in this case it s not going to happen how does he know that, when he doesn t even know what th charges are? michael cohen s lawyer, he has been speaking, lanny davis last night, he told me that th da s case against trump is a lot stronger than many peopl think. there s a lot o verification of documents. documents speak for themselves other witnesses corroborate. when people are missing, which i know, but you don t yet know so, it s coming there is so muc corroboration of the fact that donald trump was motivated b politics to thwart storm daniels telling her story. alvin bragg is not bringin this case without huge amounts