happen he had been calling for protests for his supporters, and you ll recall, joy, it was former president trump himself who predicted earlier this month that he would be arrested last tuesday. that did not happen. but, you know, he had no direct knowledge of that, but now, the nypd is taking these threats very seriously because as you ll recall, last yeek, the d.a. s office got that suspicious white powder that turned out to be harmless, but a death threat as well we re told from law enforcement sources there have been several doeszen serious threats that ha come to this office. an unprecedented attack on a prosecutor in an active grand jury investigation now, sources close to the matter who have been in touch with former president trump s attorneys say the next question is when might he be arraigned? we expect that to come some time next week, not tomorrow. earlier, and again, d.a. alvin
to face criminal charges si it is a stunning moment for this nation joining me now is former senator claire mccaskill, barbara mcquaid, law professor at the qu university of michigan charles coleman, former prosecutor and civil rights attorney and my colleague, ari melber, host of the beat and msnbc chief legal correspondent, who will do some overtime with me right now. ari, you were making a great dealry you were making a great point. it is a joyless occasion in america when this is happening but there is a tendency, i think, to make everything into politics obviously, a d.a. is a politically elected official donald trump is a former elected official, a former president but at the end, just break down for us, you know, the context for it is that he s just a
american principle, what we should aspire to that doesn t mean he s automatically convicted. it doesn t mean he can t still beat this case it does mean today is different, his life is different, and america can rise up to the standard of saying yeah, no person above the law yeah, indeed. this is the proof we have a citizen president. the idea of having a citizen president to the george washington example, after you re president, you go back to being a citizen and are jsubject to te same laws. barbara, i want to anticipate some of the questions people might have, because i think for a lot of people, this did not seem like the most momentous potential case that donald trump could face there s obviously the fani willis case, which is literally about trying to overturn a state s lawfully held election there s all of what jack smith is investigating, everything from secreting government documents that donald trump was not entitled to, having them at mar-a-lago, and not giving them
arraignment on a supreme court indictment which remains under seal guidance will be provided when the arraignment date is selected let s bring in nbc news national correspondent gabe gutierrez outside the d.a. s office in lower manhattan. what is the atmosphere like there? donald trump had led us to believe it could be a raucous atmosphere, but what are you seeing and hearing, gabe reporter: hi, there, joy. first, let me tell you that just within the past few seconds, we saw d.a. alvin bragg s car pull out of here. there was a crush of media awaiting he had no comment. he did not speak to reporters. so he left here. we have noticed a huge security presence here, joy the nypd is down here, and over the past several weeks we have seen them install these security barricades right behind me the d.a. s office is obviously in lower manhattan behind me as well i can tell you this is not the raucous atmosphere that former president trump thought might
more strongly about it than i did even on that day, that if you want presidents not to behave lawlessly, they have to expect that if they do the kind of things that donald trump we now see has just been indicted for, before he was president, some of the things he may be indicted for as president, and some of the things he may be indicted for after being president, trump knew nixon very well trump believed that nixon s biggest punishment was he goes to his seaside mansion in california, lives happily ever after. if he had seen nixon fingerprinted or even going through a trial or go to prison, i think he would not have seen a possible crime spree we re hearing about over the last seven years. and i mean, by the way, we should note that spiro agnew wound up getting indicted, the attorney general at that time, wound up getting indicted. i believe serving time it s not unprecedented, and i