the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts right now manhattan grand jury voted t indict john j trump on thursda for his role in paying hus money to a porn star today is the first day of the rest of don trump s life this is a monumental, historic importance. before tonight, president in this country were - now you are seeing citize trump being treated the same way that anyone else would regardless of the active o former president he s got to be photographed fingerprinted, he s got to appear before a. judge i believe that donald right now is petrified this is one of his biggest fears. tonight he is calling the indictment, quote, political persecution. the first thing the lawye tells you when you are indicte for somebody or charged with something s shutout. he does not have a good defense, his defense will be a reliance on politics, it wil only get uglier from thi moment on. get ready, stop on your legal seatbelt, we are going forward as a country that is goi
politics just wart storm daniels telling her story an there s so much evidence tha he paid, while president of th united states, $35,000 a month from his personal checking account, to reimburse michae cohen for the hush money payments that the federa prosecutors that were illegal, that it is literally beyond by imagination that it is going t come down to michael cohen, wh received a check from donald trump while he is president, that that track was not part o the reimbursement s game go further with me. while we do not know what th charges are, what you just sai to me, he is not a critica witness. however, however he was ther 18 different times because wha it sounds like is they are crossing every possible, t and dotting every i. alvin bragg has such a high ba that he has to meet, and thi is unprecedented that we hav ever seen this happen. so as a lawyer who went with