victim of political persecution. this is an attack on the fabric of our system. his opponents say no one is above the law. this is about accountability. how strong is the case against him? there really is a question about whether this is a valid prosecution. should he be invoking his right to remain silent and in the race for president, his would be 2024 rivals are forced to defend the man they want to defeat. the unprecedented indictment of a former president of the united states is an outrage. welcome to inside politics sunday. i m abby . phillip. thank you for joining us real estate tycoon television star president of the united states, and this week, donald j . trump will add a new title criminal defendant. trump will fly to new york on on monday and will be arraigned in lower manhattan on tuesday, and sources tell cnn that the indictment includes more than 30 counts related to business fraud , though the specifics remain under seal. we ll see what evidence there is when
yet happened. the lead starts are right now. republican officials rushing to defend trump with a variety of claims and chexcuses as the forr president faces a possible indictment. i think in your heart of hearts you know too that this you can this is just political. is this all firing up the maga base? we ll talk to two former trump insiders. plus, meeting with a menacing message, leaders of russia and china coming out of their second day of talks and offering deliberate prolposals about a future collaboration. and a colorado dentist accused of killing his wife by lacing her protein shakes with arsenic, how his internet searches became evidence. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. we start with our politics lead and a high alert day for new york city police bracing for possible unrest if donald trump is indicted. an internal memo shared with cnn shows that all nypd officers are expected to be in uniform and ready for deployment today, although law enforcement
because this is a night where you are going to remember where you were. yes. wylie coyote, thanks. you finally caught the roadrunner. me. well, the search warrant served our mar a lago this morning, had donald trump s name on it. but the real target of this investigation isn t trump the real target of this investigation is you or anyone who dares to call out and take the rank corruption of the dc establishment. this is the deep state s revenge. they re trying to show all of us that we ll be destroyed if we fight them. if we question the repeated failures of the pentagon leadership, if we make serious i m talking about serious moves to disrupt the status quo here in washington. you know, the status quo that protects a powerful as long as they play the game now for decades they got away with selling us out by letting in twenty million illegals flooding across our border. they sold us out by sending our manufacturing jobs to china. they sold us out by wasting trillions on stupid
bare his dark history of drug abuse. we re live at the courthouse. plus, a new look at the raid that freed four hostages in gaza, the blistering cross fire and mishap with the get away car before a final dramatic escape by helicopter. we ll have those details. and when a former president meets his probation officer, donald trump faces questions on everything from his mental health to his living situation. what we know about his presentencing interview today. plus, what you haven t seen from the day of the insurrection. the new video obtained by msnbc of the chaos and confusion on january 6th, including the questions congressional leaders were asking in realtime about why the national guard hadn t shown up. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. but we begin with nbc s mike memoli outside the courthouse in wilmington. mike, the defense has argued that hunter biden s state of mind is critical when considering the charges against him. what are
so your thoughts now on bill barr saying this is a rock solid case against trump. do those words carry weight with the republican party? yeah, it is a striking contrast to what you were hearing from almost all republican leaders who have spoken out. we re in a familiar dynamic here with these very detailed, very serious charges that have been filed against former president trump where the only voices in the republican party just about willing to talk with those who preemptively condemn it as it is political, weaponized, it is a witch hunt. and those who think it is more serious with the rare exceptions of bill barr, chris christie, john bolton, they are remaining silent. so you have this enormous imbalance in the conservative information sphere where republican voters are only