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
keep the temperature down, he got to not talk, and he has go to, i think, do a really thorough job - which is the process by just electing the jury. clare, we have long memories before you are a senator, yo two or a brilliant legal min and you still are. neil, what do you think th most important thing that we need to know tonight is? well, i think, first of all i totally agree with tha assessment of clare. what we need to know about is, basically, what is trump going to do and what is his defens going to be? first of, all of us now we are moving from indictment - which we have been doing for the last few weeks, into new territory, arraignment launch. this is for no one to i don t care who you, are th criminal process is always a horrible thing jail is a horrible thing i ve defended many crimina defendants pro bono, it always heartbreaking it is a heartbreaking moment