authorities ramp up security. then, republicans quick to defend the twice impeached trump but some want to have their cake and eat it too. how will it all shake out in the 2024 race? and vladimir putin s visit with china s president just days after a warrant was issued for putin s arrest. what this relationship signals for the war in ukraine as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. good evening. i am mehdi hasan in for stephanie ruhle. we are in the midst of an extraordinary moment in our nation s history. the people of america are watching, waiting to find out whether manhattan district attorney alvin bragg will bring criminal charges against the former president, donald j trump, related to a hush money payment related to stormy daniels. it would mark the first indictment of a former president in u.s. history. the grand jury in the case heard from another witness today, attorney bob costello, robert costello, the new york times describing him as appearing, quote,
course, and this is a picture of a guy, i m not saying the guy in the picture is himself cute, honestly, what would i, know not my area expertise. but i think just as a picture, regardless of the guy, i think as a picture this is kind of cute. just in terms of composition. in part because it s kind of got a swirl effects. like on the upper left side of the image, we ve got his eye that s looking kind of whisky, kind of head downstream, but then on the lower right side of the image he s got the biggest mark, heading straight up towards his ear so the whole thing is kind of a swirl you know? just as a picture as a mugshot in particular i think that s not bad. that person is the attorney general of the great state of texas and that is in fact his mugshot. his name is ken who s indicted in booked into the collin county jail in texas on felony securities fraud charges a few years ago, those felony charges are still pending against him, he was still under indictment on multiple fel
i feel like america knew this about you, lawrence. did you not know this about yourself? did you think that was a possibility that the scallion cream cheese is going to be for you? you are not the only person i respect was a scallion person on the cream cheese thing so i thought okay, one more time i look at this a try, one more time. but never again. that s it. now. between us, lawrence, i handle the alums, you handle spiders and all of the things that i m not into, eels, i get it. but i will do the alums. perfect division of labor. we have a giant lawyer show tonight, everybody, we have andrew weissmann starting us off with charles coleman, who we have got local da experience here in new york, which is going to be really important going forward, flank he s fleming, former district attorney in georgia, neighboring county fani willis. and of course, harvard constitutional law professor laurence tribe to try to take apart that trump filing today in georgia on constitut
criminal charges against the former president, donald j trump, related to a hush money payment related to stormy daniels. it would mark the first indictment of a former president in u.s. history. the grand jury in the case heard from another witness today, attorney bob costello, robert costello, the new york times describing him as appearing, quote, at the request of the former president s lawyers providing testimony aimed at attacking the credibility of the prosecution style witness. that star witness is former trump lawyer and fixer, michael cohen. the times as that costello was once a legal adviser to cohen when he was facing a federal investigation into the hush money payment following his appearance. castilla s book about what he told of the grand jury. michael cohen told us that he was approached by stormy daniels lawyer. stormy daniels had negative information that she wanted to put in a lawsuit against trump. michael cohen decided, on his own, that s what he told us
a final push to persuade jurors. i could see certainly a few of them were doing what you re doing right now, shaking your head up and down. tonight, as protective barricades go up in new york, what we know about what is coming and when. plus, the other major developments in georgia and d. c.. the posturing of trump allies in high office and the ones battling him for a nomination. i don t know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure wins over some type of alleged affair. tonight, george conway, danya perry, congressman adam schiff, michael steele, mona charen, and jon meacham on what could be history in the making. when all in starts right now. good evening. i am chris hayes. well, the country is bracing for what could be an imminent indictment of donald trump in manhattan. there are reports that it could be handed down as early as today, although as far as we know, that has not happened. over the weekend, the ex president took to social med