sources familiar with the matter tell nbc news donald trump faces about 30 counts of document fraud-related charges in the indictment of course we ll know more when the indictment is nsealed, and of course next week will be a big week as it s expected he will surrender to authorities early next week. that does it for us this morning, josé diaz-balart picks up the coverage right now. and good morning, it is 10:00 a.m., 7:00 a.m. pacific. i m josé diaz-balart, and we begin this friday in uncharted territory, a former u.s. president indicted moments ago we learned from two sources familiar with the matter that there are about 30 counts of document fraud-related charges in the indictment. the case, of course, involves a hush money payment made to adult film actress stormy daniels who said she had an affair with trump, when he denied. we expect donald trump to surrender to the manhattan d.a. s office to be arraigned next week. he ll have his fingerprints taken and will be ph
not tolerate this injustice and the house of representatives will hold alvin bragg and his unprecedented abuse of power to account, and of course we already know, jose, that three different house committees, the administration committee, the oversight committee, and the judiciary committee have engaged with the manhattan district attorneys. they want alvin bragg to come for a transcribed interview. they ve asked for documents. it s not clear, though, that they have the authority to do so, and the district attorney s office just this morning responding to these committees saying that they will not allow their request to interfere with their prosecution of the former president. so there s no doubt that members of congress at this point, jose are going to be sitting objn th sidelines in this dispute. they seem to be actively involved in it of course they have nothing to do with the prosecution itself it s really about the court of public opinion that you see both republicans and democrats