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
forth and i misread your tex [laughter] i thought i was gonna have you on the top of the show and the you are you crossed on the top of my show and i was lik sending everyone on a while it was chase. but it s wonderful to see you. no or you thought i was gonna be on with you an hour ago, just pop up roundly o your show uninvited? no, i was having you on but then i realized afterwards tha i d screw that up and heads an a bunch of embarrassing emails telling people to stand down having revere the text you sen me so it s wonderful to see you here on this very importan day. thank you, chris. hey, and thank you for askin me to be here, i m here unde weird circumstances. i did my own makeup which is hilarious. so i look like we ve all bee talking about nicks nixon an actually here to remind us o the ghost of nixon nixon it s 1960. you do everything including your makeup. before you go, let me jus ask you, chris, because you ve been asking a lot of questions this hour and,
outside this criminal process, completely outside this news decided to do in response to it and that is something that happened within five minutes o trump s lawyer first putting out the first statement to reporters that trump would tur himself in for arraignment early next week. we got one trump lawyer tellin reporters early next week, trump attorney himself in. within five minutes of tha first statement from trump s lawyer, a republican politicia named ron desantis, governor o florida, made the statemen online, saying, florida will not persist in an extraditio request given in the questionable circumstances tha issue with this soros back t manhattan prosecutor and his political agenda that some of the virgin jim th statement from ron desanti that echoes word for word what dawn along trump said in response to his own indictment he s echoing trump s languag exactly, which is fine
something that they say that they are so in favor of, try t keep knowledge away from our children and try to brin culture wars into the classroo that point about projection which i think is true about so much - we should just note that in statement about th weaponization of the legal system, another republican - prominent republican - ron desantis, who s expected t be arrival to donald trump - turns rule of law on its head. that s the first part. and then he concludes by saying, florida will not assist in extradition request given th questionable circumstances a issue with this soros back t manhattan prosecutor and his political agenda i should note, i think he made that statement after trump already made it clear he was going to surrender, so it s little bit of an empty gesture but it sort of sums it all off this is weaponization. i will use my power to not comply with the law.
senator, was indicted an prosecuted, he was acquitted those are people who have wa more resources than your average defended getting arraigned and booked i brooklyn or manhattan, right but it s also the case tha this has happened before the idea that rachel maddow made this, point rachel maddow it s happened in our country - not to former president, but a very powerful former political leaders. it happened to leaders in othe countries. the point of the rule of law - where it catches out is, the process is what matters. right, you are exactly. right in the process is th process and people need to understand that. it is a critical point for viewers to understand. this is going to be a very lon and extracted process. and let s be clear, as you v already said, the indictment i has not been unsealed yet. we literally do not know wha he has been charged with - right? and it could be simply as straightforward as the falsified bookkeeping. it could be much mor convoluted and complica