anymore. and here we are now. thank you so much, joyq■. good evening, from new york, i am chris hayes, andñr■it is a big night with major historic breaking news. and i mqgoing to be with you for the next hour entirely. and after that, the one and only rachel maddow will be here. kmt. x■so, we expect that somelp time early next week that the former president of these united states willoki] surrender to the manhattan district attorney s office where he will be arrested and face arraignment on felony criminal charges. and that m■jul■ afternoon a grand jury in manhattan voted to indict donald trump i of their son baron. this is the culmination of an investigation that s been five years and two districtf■ attorneys. in recent weeks, as the case neared a close, or appeared to, we saw key witnesses testify before the grand juryñr■ down i■ m■attan, including michael cohen, trump st■r and fixer, who actk!ñ■made the payments toçó■daniels in october of 201
indictment sitting and waiting for donald trump, this is no going to be an open shot process. i do not expect any plea i do not expect no - take any plea. and so now you are talking about the potential of a ver long, drawn out process, leading up with a trial of a former president of the united states of america. that is not an easy thing to deal with. and you talk about alvin bragg i m just trying to wrap my min around finding a jury that i fair and impartial as a former prosecutor it makes my head explode in ne york, in manhattan yeah. or - have you heard of the defendant? [laughter] this is where originalist s no, no when this country was founded, there were defendants who knew everyone and the jurors knew them that s not what the law is the law is not that you don know the person, or that - it s just, can you put tha aside? and i have done a slew o high-profile cases, bu obviously nothing like this. but it s cases where peopl