you from los angeles and welcome everyone to alex wit reports. developing this, our new reaction today and a growing partisan divide after former president donald trump claim without evidence that th manhattan district attorney is planning to arrest on tuesday. the da s office declined t comment on those claims, which stem from an investigation int a hush money payment to stormy daniels. but nbc news has obtained an email sent by da alvin bragg telling staff they will not be intimidated. if indicted, donald trump woul be the first former u.s. president to face criminal charges, and early today democratic lot makers ar stressing that significance. no one is above the law that is a defining principle o the republic, and has been the case for 247 years it i outrageous there is no thing to low the sky cannot reach every time yo think he s reached, it he goes even further also that he is ver typical of the forme president. he attacks the person who is leading this investigat
there is a democracy challenge right now within the republica party which is not everybody i m not painting a broad strok here but there are some folks who have really turned their bac on that, system and that process. and i am extremely concerned b comments like speaker mccarthy and others that this i politically. charged because it is. not this is a grand righ process and everyone has to be accountable and everyone i entitled to due process an equal protection and we have t let that system play out trump has called on protesters to take our natio back, quote. here that, does echo the english language he used in th run up to january? six are you worried when a protest potentially turnin violent like we all saw on tha fateful day? i am worried about it as you, or call members of congres travel to the house galler surrounded by that riotous mob not knowing whether when t make it. that don trump calls, on quote protests, the sum of the means that somebody doesn t respec