stranglehold on republican politics when a public official is indicted, the office is more important than the person, the should step aside. when all in it starts right now good evening from new york, i chris hayes. donald trump, the now indicted ex president, is reportedl facing about 30 counts related to document fraud. now, that is all we know a this point, of course. because manhattan district attorney alvin bragg has kep the indictment unsealed. we will learn the full scope o what trump is charged with whe he is arraigned in tha indictment becomes public. da bragg wanted that to happen today, but the arraignment was delayed. trump s lawyer says the secret service asked for the delay, but sources tell nbc new that s not true, that agents are ready to brink bring trump to new york at a moments notice right now the plan is for trum to fly to new york city on monday night he will spend the night at the trump tower apartmen accompanied by dozens of agent before surrend
this is going to be lik roger stone on steroids level, throwing stuff against the wall so, i want to actually ge to that, which is he targeted the judge in a pos today. yeah. is that generally - do judges like that? i don t know i don t practice law do judges like that or not lik that in a word, no they don t like it and this judge is not going to like it either and although he may be somewha careful to not restric political speech given tha it s a politician that has bee charged, i think he is going t make it very clear tha comments about the case are no going to be allowed. and i think he is going to hav to enforce that rule over th course of this case. i think the tipping point i going to be when donald trum goes after the grand jurors. because we both know that that is where he is going to go nex without already going ther already, 23 citizens of ne york city doing their duty he s going to put them in th crosshairs there is also a dynamic her that - when you look at
be, well, a volatile man he is not exactly known fo either rational behavior o compliance i suppose there s always a chance he just doesn t show up on tuesday although we ve no indication a of now that would be the case. were he to decide to basically go scoff law to stay in florida, his likely political rival republican governor ro desantis, who trump recently smeared as a groomer, meanin that he was trying to groo underage children to have se with them, that guy, ron desantis - who trump alleged was that - i said he will not assist in the ex presidents extradition, meaning we would likely see protracted legal process the play out right now reporting indicate that alvin bragg expects trump to comply. obviously, however, they hav been going back and forth. there s some arrangement tha has been put together fo tuesday. for his part, again as he would fully expect, th ex president has been having a meltdown on social media he has posted or shared dozens
in miami-dade county of course she s the host of he own show endowments nbc. harry sandick is a forme assistant u.s. attorney for th southern district of new york, now a white-collar crimina defense attorney with expertis in financial fraud let me start with you on that. yes i saw someone say this wh was an ex prosecutor from this office you said that these kinds of charges on falsifying business records specificall said, for this da s office it s like what mail fraud is for the feds like, when they are going afte someone along these lines, like, that s the bread and butte charge you get in this offic on this i think that s right. and we don t have wire fraud and mail fraud so if they want to - bring meaning - - you don t have that - law that s, right new yor state does not have the same types of laws that you have in the federal system so they have to look to othe types of statutes. there is law sony larceny in some cases and in this case there i business records the
it already does it every day citizens can the nation actually hold t account, in a fair and reasonable manner, with du process, the highest ranking former official? that is really what it comes down to. the whole idea behind this country need i remind you is what? that we threw off the tyrann of the king and what is a king i king he s a special kind o person who sits above the la and above the subjects and i immune from the law in key way because he is the law. that is it it s the distilled essence o the core principle of monarchy the law in the manner the same nearly 250 years ago w rejected that. in favor of a nation of laws t which everyone is subject there is no greater test o that principle than this momen we find ourselves in right now and people are freaked out about it again, i get that. but it is deeply weird to me and american, to be a patrioti