courthouse, as well as tuesday for former president trump s arraignment from 10 am to noon you can also always catch me right here, saturdays on sundays, two to 4 pm eastern simone starts right now. greetings everyone, you are watching symone. on tuesday, we will find out the criminal charges against former president donald trump. today he walks into a manhatta courthouse to be fingerprinted and booked with the former district attorney of manhattan says t its from the prosecution and his advice for trump s attorneys say it is expanding. former arkansas governor h auctions in reveals he wil jump into the republican primary and who knows what senator joe manchin is up to you will dig into why he is no ruling out a run for president in 2024. and we ll be go beyond the ballot in idaho. it is taking its stric abortion ban a step further. it could become the first stat in the country to wait, fo this, criminalize helping across state lines without parental consent we are ta
real answer about michae cohen s credibility. let me give you a fact that is the best answer. the first is that michael cohe said before an obvious defense of millions in public, what did for donald trump and dirty deeds for ten years, i lied, i cheated and i did everything dirty for him. and then i decided, on july 2nd, 2018, to own what i did. i am ashamed of myself and now i want to speak trut to power and i want to put my family an my country first it is very rare for a witnes who has a lot of flaws, ha owned all that he has done inside from this point on will cooperate wit authorities. so seven congressional committees, grand jury testimony this is the real answer to credibility. what i hear you giving us i a forceful defense of mr cohen s credibility. so do you think, at this point it is unfounded for folks to question his credibility no. certainly not.
he did, he is the one harshest on himself, simone he says i am ashamed of myself i apologize. i am not going to defend myself, 40s for ten years. he said that in front of ten of millions of people on liv television so there is no denying that he was a liar and a cheat and did a lot of terrible things in th name of, and the instruction of, donald trump, according to federal prosecutors. that includes the hush money payment, federal prosecutors said donald trump directed him to do that now he went to jail for doin that and this was a terrible crime. they themselves described it a a campaign finance violation that mike pence hypocritically diminishes federal prosecutors have say that this is a crime tha imperils our democracy so when the republicans ar trying to politicize this by saying this is a political trial, you know who they are arguing with federal prosecutors in the trump administration
which according to the washington post is heating u and as more and more focused o obstruction according to their breaking news today. and fani willis use that agate yvette menands we may have that the snowball gets bigger and bigger while sometimes for a defendan just delay, i harry defense di tierney say a dead case is a good as a. and delay works for them it doesn t really work in this case for donald trump. there are so man investigations and cases pending. if you are smart, he would figure out a way to get this case out of the way so he ca deal with the rest that s not his dna my guess is the snowball jus gets bigger and bigger cynthia, as you are, saying catherine s here are sayin yes. you are agreeing something about the specia coastal who s continuing his investigation and. to january six and ramping up, lots of people being called to come in there, which - also in new york state.
$150, 000, mr. pecker received immunity by admitting he did that and this was in return for donald trump s commitment to repay that money michael cohen pled guilty to that crime, because he did the paperwork. so he was charged by the - district prosecutors for the two crimes and again, i just want t reiterate, these are serious crimes they are not just campaign finance violations it is called hush money to deprive the american people of whether it is karen mcdougal and donald trump directly with mr. pecker, and michael to the paperwork. but they are two crimes that a far as i know, at least on will be charged. the karen mcdougal crime tha michael pled guilty to, he wen to jewel in part for, we don t know whether this will be crime separately charged in th indictment all right lanny davis ladies and gentlemen, with a forceful and fiery defense o his client we will wait to see what these charges are on tuesday i am joined now by congressman benny thompson he is a democrat fro