to start this hour, let s brea down all of the news and how i view the trump indictment. sources familiar with th matter tell nbc news that trum faces around 30 charges of documented fraud connected to hush mone payments that he allegedly mad to cover up fast affairs in th run up to the 2016 election. two sources tell the associate press that it includes at leas one felony offense, and th exact charges at this moment against the ex president are still unknown. because the indictment remains sealed nbc news has now joined coalition of news organization urging that the indictment t be unsealed, citin overwhelming public interest ahead of trump s scheduled arraignment next tuesday that group is also requestin that cameras be allowed inside the courtroom during tuesday s proceedings. according to the new york times, trump and his aides were caugh off guard by the timing of the grand jury indictment which wa made public thursday afternoon thinking that any action was perhaps still
tonight, we are going to giv you the context and th perspective you need t understand how these next fe weeks and months will unfold you are going to hear about th strength of alvin bragg s case against donald trump, an congressman ted lieu wil respond to republican attack on the da. and later, the other massive illegal news from the, week th fox defamation lawsuit lap and guess which programs are o the hit list i m ayman, let s get started to start this hour, let s brea down all of the news and how i view the trump indictment. sources familiar with th matter tell nbc news that trum faces around 30 charges of document fraud connected t hush money payments that h allegedly made it to cover u past affairs in the run up t the 2016 election. two sources tell the associate press that includes at least one felony offense, and th exact charges at this moment against the ex president are still unknown because th indictment remains sealed. nbc news has now joined coalition of a new or
criminal because he had unauthorized possession of secret documents that very same joe biden himself had unauthorized possession of secret documents. but don t worry, it s not a big deal unlike you and that despicably orange donald trump joe biden is a good person. joe biden is so virtuous. he is transcended temporal law. it s not a crime when he does it. so that s the frustratingly familiar headline from this week s story, which you probably seen by now. but the details of the story are actually pretty interesting. so a week before these last midterm elections, joe biden s lawyers were for some reason rooting around in a locked closet in the washington office of something called the pen biden center for diplomacy and global engagement. and while in that locke s closet, biden s lawyers find a sheaf of highly classified government documents. so the first question here is , why were joe biden s lawyers doing this in the first place? and we can t say for sure because they
george, you not fooling anyone yeah, except i did. now i m in congress. i am jonathan capehart, thi is the sunday show president biden unveiled his new budget proposal this week, a seven trillion dollar plan that in vested billions into affordable childcare, whol care for older or disabled americans, and lowering housin costs. the plan proposes to pay for i by the corporate tax rate to 28% and imposing in 25% tax on billionaires a proposal snl had a little fu with last night. president biden proposed hi budget that would help fun medicare with 25% tax on billionaires take that rihanna! the white house says th plan could cut the federal deficit by a whopping thre trillion dollars over the next decade while still allowing th government to provide for thos who need a little extra help house republicans say the plan is dear way. citing theneed to curb spending due to the debt ceiling. reminder, that is money we v already spent. at the state of the union, the enthusiasti
hour the state department is callin earlier reports of a new prisoner exchange agreemen between iran and the unite states a cruel ally. the report today on irania state tv attributes the foreig minister with making tha statement about the prisoner swap deal. again, the u.s. is rejecting that statement let s hurry to embassies megan fitzgerald who standing by i london let s get to what this is al about. what do you know, megan? alex, you are absolutel right. what we know is that the iranian foreign minister mad these remarks on iranian state tv saying that iran in the u.s. have made this deal to exchang prisoners that the iranian sid is all set and ready to go they re waiting on the u.s side to sort things out. the ministry saying that he hopeful that this would happen soon of course, there was no detail provided there was no evidence suggeste of what this is all about. as you said, the united states government, the stat department saying that this is a cruel ally we are he