you from los angeles welcome to alex witt report, would be getting this hour o the investigation into donal trump s alleged hush money payments to film star tort stormy daniels he has been launching out on true to media today. he claims he will be arreste on tuesday clay calling th manhattan da office political. and calling for protests the manhattan da is declinin to comment but some spin campaign said th there has been no notification trump is rightly highlightin his innocence. his defenders have rallied mos notably, kevin mccarthy ca called it an outrageous abus of power by the da democrats are concerned that his social media post coul lead to violence i am just so struck b remembering back this mornin to the two impeachments that i was involved and asked unite states senator of donald trump and remembering my republica colleagues, some of my republican colleagues saying oh they believe that donal trump has learned a lesson fro these experiences. and yet, here we have to
that trump has been unde investigation for for the last several years. i think it is very clear tha the justice department has moved more slowly than multipl other bodies the prosecutor in new york clearly, as well as the januar six committee which we know wa talking to people like the chief of staff in seeking th testimony of mike pence s aide and others long before the doj view that as a multi-par conspiracy so i think that we are bac today, alex, in a place that i guess as a nation, legally politically, and otherwise, we may have stepped away from for a little while the recent era. we are back to this question o whether donald trump will be successful in his quite brazen efforts to undermine the rul of law, to rattle the system i the way that it is supposed to work, to basically abuse disrupt, delay, and shake ou the legal system away from doing its job. and, again, as always i sa that separately from whether o not. there is evidence to try him o