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
they now run the house and they have not put an legislation on the table t deal with that as well congresswoman stace plaskett, thank you so much fo your time tonight. thank you all right, on this bi evening, we turn now to vaughn hillyard, my colleague who s i and this nbc news correspondent, he s been covering donal trump s 2024 campaign. he s live in new york outsid of the manhattan da s office and last weekend he was on the plane with the ex president, after his rally in waco, texas vaughn, it seems like they are going to get the ex presiden up there for an arraignmen next week. is that your understanding right and for the number of times think donald trump does no want to be arrested, does no want to be indicted, they ve been given no suggestion tha they would not come here to ne york already standing at this time, they do plan as of early nex week, to come here to lowe manhattan a criminal court building here is right across the street fro the manhattan district attorne
denied directly to michael cohen, to make that 130,00 dollar payment before the 2016 election, but what michael cohen has yet to directl answer, is when he knew that that stormy daniels arraignmen was waved because he was writing persona checks all the way from th white house, all the way u until december 2017, when asked him two times he faile to provide a timeline and then i asked him, well what did you think you are making those payments for? and, quote, well, i don t know exactly what the status or rug actually what the question i as to how much but he did work for us but he did not do very muc work for us. he then went on to talk abou the weaponization and ended hi remarks by saying that i had n more questions again, donald trump ha declined, repeatedly, to giv his own version of events. and that is why you could gues that he is likely to - undergo before a jury, chris yeah, i think we will not expect his testimony shoul this come to trial i want to ask one more question bec