this is msnbc s continuing coverage of the indictment o former president donald j trump, time elevation you york, after becoming the first president i u.s. history to be impeached twice, donald trump has made history yet again, becoming th only ex president to face criminal indictment. on thursday, a grand jury vote to indict the former president as part of manhattan distric attorney alvin weiss investigation into a hush mone payment made to and at fil star stormy daniels, in 2016 that indictment is currently sealed that means we don t know the specific charges being levie against donald trump but we do know that bag ha been focusing on a felon charge, of falsifying business records, which carries a maximum sentence of four years it means that he s formerl charged with a crime but there are still severa steps in the coming days, the ex president is expected to surrender himself to authorities, after which h will be taken into custody like any other person charge with the, c
selling the pitch that this is an effort to undercut th movement here. this is not a prosecution abou trying to defraud the taxpayer over medicare taxes here that is two in the weeds here. and for donald trump this is about the conservative mag movement here that he ha helped construct let s be very clear, you see the response from villages int the usual response from one of mcdonald s, you see th response from kevin mccarthy it echoes exactly what we sa after the mar-a-lago searc warrant was executed in august exactly what we saw after th two impeachments of donald trump here and for the republican party they ve lifted up donald trump time and time again, you go to iowa, chuck grassley chuck grassley is a senior statesman from the state o iowa and yet time and agai they defended him. when i was in iowa just a fe weeks ago when this was really the aid to percolate again