midnight on the east coast i am stephanie ruhle and we ar continuing our breaking news coverage of the indictment o former president donald trump. the grand jury in manhatta indicted him earlier today making trump the first forme president to ever face crimina charges in our nation history. those jurors have been hearing evidence of hush money payments, made to adult film star stormy daniels during the 201 presidential campaign. trump s current lawyers issued a statement saying he did no commit any crime and they plan to vigorously fight this political prosecution. one trump attorney tells nbc trump is expected to b arraigned on tuesday in ne york let s bring in our panel o experts to break it all down simone sanders townsend, msnbc host and former chie spokesperson for kamala harris harry lippman, former u.s. attorney and deputy assistan journey jonathan allen, senior analyst reporter for nbc news. and tim o brien, bloomberg opinion senior columnist and the man who wrote
assures of safety measures are to donald trump claims the arrest is imminent, and call for protests standing by their, man house speaker kevin mccarthy leads the republicans rallying t trump s defense. , and the rates for 2020 for how a possible indictmen could hurt or help trump s bid to return to the white house the prosecutor in new yor has done more to help donald trump get elected presiden than any single person i america today. i am jonathan kaye, part an this is a special edition of the sunday show. welcome, katie phang is off this morning we began th special edition of the sunda show with the news that as bot the political and legal worl holding their breath yesterday, a trump blair in social post, that la enforcement agencies are essentially preparing to arres the former president justthi tuesday. , remember this part of trump legal woes stem from a 201 alleged hush money payment t adult film star. the manhattan da s offic declined to comment on wha trump said
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
politicsnation tonight s lead, danger all ove again. it we even and his third run fo the white house, forme president donald trump still can push politics to the edge. last night, trump happil mingled with maga supporters a a wrestling match and oklahoma just hours after dropping bombshell announcement, th former president claiming on his truth social platform, h would be arrested on tuesday although he offered no proof that charges were eminent just like on january 6th trum called for protest without specifying whether the the should be violent or non violent. manhattan da alvin bragg sending out an internal memo t the staff and his office assuring them they will be safe trump s response, another angr post calling him a racist an once again the most prominence and influential republicans ar rallying behind trump no matte what havoc he wreaks, speake of the house kevin mccarth calling the case against the former president and outrageou abuse of power by a radical da if this i
barrett on what more needs t be done to shore up our bankin system this is american voices. we begin this hour wit breaking news. donald trump declaring h expects to be arrested o tuesday in a post on his knockoff version of twitte truth social this is all in connection to the new york investigation int hush money paid to adult fil star stormy daniels just befor the 2016 election. now we should point out th manhattan da alvin bragg has not commenting on trump s post or the possibility of an indictment this week, trump s forme lawyer michael cohen testified before a grand jury in manhattan. back in 2018, cohen pleade guilty to making an illega payment to daniels to keep her quiet about an alleged affai with trump cohen had this to tie say abou trump s new comments t reverend al sharpton thi afternoon on msnbc the right thing to do is to leave it for alvin bragg when the indictment comes down we will all know look at the chaos that one tweet from donald trump ha caused nbc