for the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now trump indicted. the first ever crimina indictment of a former president of the united states the first time in his lif that the guy is actually min held accountable for his own dirty deeds. did you think this day woul actually come with this man? karma is a bench. we don t know what happen in this event. but we do know that th republican party has decided that it s not going to take an off ramp once again. give the president some money to fight this bowl [bleep]. in washington, trump buddies in the house are still demanding that essentially d break hand over all thei evidence to them you have no jurisdictio here it will require them to b pro of money payment to poin stars, pro insurrection, pro classified documents sitting around in mar-a-lago thereafter before so many things oh, those prosecutors. this is a genuine test of how much are we are as a democracy that believes in liberty under law. and i don
interfering with a ongoing criminal prosecution that, to me, is a violation of ethics, it s abuse of power. you know, republicans ofte decry the of government, and here yo have republicans weaponizing government against the manhattan district attorney. is that what concerns you the most as this process begins? because it s not about political weaponization, thi is about the american lega system and that s getting lost. i m concerned about attempt by house republicans t de-legitimize the american legal system we should all allow the lega process to unfold, and let the facts speak for themselves and i have full confidence i the manhattan district attorney, alvin bragg. he is not a career politician. he is a professional prosecuto who s been in the new york attorney generals office, in the southern district. and it s in his nature to go where the facts lie. so, we should allow the proces to unfold rather tha interfere. somebody who has not told a lot of things that has happene
he how does he know no, no, not at all, he ha not seen a bit of the evidence just like the rest of us so, to say it s incredibly wea is to misstate the facts this reminds me an awful lot o what he did with robert mueller, when mueller first rolled ou his report and he spun it as a complete exoneration of donald trump. he talked about how there wa no evidence of conspiracy, n collusion. after all this investigation you know, there is a bunch o nothing. even a federal judge in that case accused william barr of distorting the record in tha case and i think he s doing the sam thing again. now, someone who has thi credibility can convince people. so, if people watch that people of good faith saw, wow, that guy is a former attorne general of the united states he must know what he s talking about. if he says there s nothing t the case, there must be nothin to the case. and yet, he has not even see it it is not unsealed yet it s really quite a bit of hubris to be able to issue tha
will come out and make him loo like a you know what so it s all falling into donal trump s plan all of it every single step of the wa right now. hold on a minute. it s all falling into do trump s plan you think donald trump planned to fly on up to new york o monday night and get fingerprinted on tuesday i think that what donal trump is seeking out right now he is looking at the polls a his people are, and he i establishing himself as th victim and what he is pitiful is that the rest of the republican nominees, and this is ho obviously he didn t plan to be indicted, but what he is doing right now is making sure tha every single other republica nominee stands up and supports him. despite the fact that then h will turn around and reduc them into something pitiful on the debate stage so yes, that is undeniably his plan and he will do that for th coming months as he dominate the news there are press clips, every single politician gets press clips in the morning, and they
trump s interest in that scenario undervalued them for the purpose of paying taxes, overvalue them for the purpose of obtaining loans so, i think it does remain t be seen what exactly those counts are but if there are 30 of them, you know, it suggests to m that they ve got stron evidence and they want to us all of it. could this be the kind of case in which prosecutors ar trying to file ric racketeering charges buildin these up in an organized fashion? barb it is possible, stephanie rico is used when there is a pattern of racketeerin activity racketeering is a general term that encompasses a lot o different kinds of crimes, tha get used an organized crime, like extortion and bribery and threats and kinds of things. so, it allows the prosecutor t bring together in one case under one umbrella a lot o disparate crimes i guess it s possible. i think in light of what w