. former president donald j. trump has beenrand jury investig hush money payments to adult film star stormy daniels. it is the first time in american history that a current or former president is facing criminal charges, and cnn is now learning that trump is expected to be arraigned. early next week. now the grand jury has been hearing evidence and witness testimony related to $130,000 that trump s former fixer, michael cohen, paid stormy daniels before the 2016 election. that money was paid in exchange for her silence about an alleged affair she had with trump now source telling cnn and this is really important information. we re just getting that trump was completely caught off guard that right now he s in florida at a mar-a-lago that he had been caught off guard and that he thought that this was sort of. maybe maybe over. maybe bragg had gotten cold feet, so he suddenly released a statement after this news broke, saying, quote. this is this is in part. it s a longer statem
selling and then the rapidly developing clash in washington as we re getting new details about what the true republican agenda may be in the congress or in the people running for president. there are prominent conservatives that are reviving an idea long left for dead and interesting one that barack obama himself warned about on the midterm campaign trail. the idea, bringing back what was once a bush era plan to change or gut social security. the president tonight we re told will say much more about how he plans to reshape social security. the system is headed toward bankruptcy. i earned capital in the campaign, political capital. strengthen it, improve it, do not privatize it. even though some consider it, some the third rail of american politics. some are afraid to touch it. some don t want to touch it. some provide excuses not to touch it. [ laughter ] do you want to touch it? even in friendly territory it s fair to say he s finding that his plan is going t
president jared kushner. reporting tonight that kushner and trump have been subpoenaed by special counsel jack smith as part of his investigation into former president trump s role in the january 6th attack. if you watch the house january 6th committee hearings last mirror, you might remember that one of the sing a piece of video that the committee played featuring ivanka trump, with a big question trying to answer being how much people in the white house believed the lie that they were pushing, the election had been stolen. it mattered when the committee asked trump s opinion of attorney general bill barr s statement which was made on december 1st of 2020, where there was no widespread fraud in the election. it mattered that this was how the president responded. how did that affect your perspective about the election, when general barr made that same shipment? it affected my perspective. i respect his opinion, and so i expected what he said. the former president s da
it s another reminder to never, ever, ever, give up on yourself. and on that beautiful note, i wish you a good night. from all our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow we start with breaking news about president trump s eldest daughter ivanka trump and her husband, former senior adviser to the president jared kushner. there are times reports tonight that both kushner and trump have been subpoenaed by special counsel jack smith as part of his investigation into former president trump s role in the january 6th attack. now, if you watch the house january six committee hearings last year, you might remember that one of the signal moments was a piece of video they played featuring ivanka trump. a big question the committee was trying to answer was, was how much people in the white house believed the lie they were pushing, that the election had been stolen. so, it mattered when the committee aske
good evening once again. i m alicia menendez in for stephanie ruhle. it was nearly three weeks ago that former president trump first told the nation, the fbi was executing a search warrant at mar-a-lago. today, americans had the chance to see some of the justice s reasoning for that move. the heavily redacted affidavit that underpins the warrant has been unsealed and made public. the document supports much of which was already known about the criminal investigation to whether trump and his aides took secret government papers, and failed to return all of them, despite repeated demands from senior government officials. nbc s peter alexander has more on today s bombshell developments. reporter: the 38-page affidavit focuses on what the fbi says it found in 15 boxes mr. trump returned to the national archives in january. mixed in with newspapers, magazines, and presidential correspondents were 184 classified documents, 67 of them marked confidential. 92 marked secret. and 25