to start this hour, let s brea down all of the news and how i view the trump indictment. sources familiar with th matter tell nbc news that trum faces around 30 charges of documented fraud connected to hush mone payments that he allegedly mad to cover up fast affairs in th run up to the 2016 election. two sources tell the associate press that it includes at leas one felony offense, and th exact charges at this moment against the ex president are still unknown. because the indictment remains sealed nbc news has now joined coalition of news organization urging that the indictment t be unsealed, citin overwhelming public interest ahead of trump s scheduled arraignment next tuesday that group is also requestin that cameras be allowed inside the courtroom during tuesday s proceedings. according to the new york times, trump and his aides were caugh off guard by the timing of the grand jury indictment which wa made public thursday afternoon thinking that any action was perhaps still
tonight, we are going to giv you the context and th perspective you need t understand how these next fe weeks and months will unfold you are going to hear about th strength of alvin bragg s case against donald trump, an congressman ted lieu wil respond to republican attack on the da. and later, the other massive illegal news from the, week th fox defamation lawsuit lap and guess which programs are o the hit list i m ayman, let s get started to start this hour, let s brea down all of the news and how i view the trump indictment. sources familiar with th matter tell nbc news that trum faces around 30 charges of document fraud connected t hush money payments that h allegedly made it to cover u past affairs in the run up t the 2016 election. two sources tell the associate press that includes at least one felony offense, and th exact charges at this moment against the ex president are still unknown because th indictment remains sealed. nbc news has now joined coalition of a new or
and lots of questions to answe so let s get started buckle up for what i anticipated to be a wild ride. donald trump is set to arriv in new york city tomorrow as the former president prepare to surrender to law enforcemen in manhattan courthouse on tuesday afternoon. plus, a judge denying medi empire fox news s request to keep the case from going to jury my question, just how big of a legal lost in fox news suffe on friday? then later, the culture is a ipi woman. i sat down with some trailblazers to talk about wha it means to be an asia american woman in today america. all of that and more is coming up donald trump is set to arriv in new york tomorrow i had one of the biggest court appearances we have ever see in united states history it truly will be unprecedented a former president facin felonies will go before judge. trump is spending the weeken in florida and was only briefl seeing driving by the smal pockets of supporters that hav gathered outside of hi mar-a-lago estat
hour the state department is callin earlier reports of a new prisoner exchange agreemen between iran and the unite states a cruel ally. the report today on irania state tv attributes the foreig minister with making tha statement about the prisoner swap deal. again, the u.s. is rejecting that statement let s hurry to embassies megan fitzgerald who standing by i london let s get to what this is al about. what do you know, megan? alex, you are absolutel right. what we know is that the iranian foreign minister mad these remarks on iranian state tv saying that iran in the u.s. have made this deal to exchang prisoners that the iranian sid is all set and ready to go they re waiting on the u.s side to sort things out. the ministry saying that he hopeful that this would happen soon of course, there was no detail provided there was no evidence suggeste of what this is all about. as you said, the united states government, the stat department saying that this is a cruel ally we are he
what i would say is the same team, working with the sam type of professionalism, the same type of team all thei active investigation nbc has news has learned tha he s meeting this weekend to discuss their strategy prosecutors in infected an testify before a grand jur next week but did not issue subpoena at one of trump s lawyer telling them the forme president had no plans to meet with the manhattan distric attorney s office. meantime, nbc also confirm trump s former personal lawyer michael cohen has to testify from the grand jury this monday cohen has says he gave storm daniels $130,000 on trump orders to keep her from coming forwar for the 2016 election. joining me now to discuss msnb legal analyst lisa reuben. lisa, alvin bragg also ver careful very cautious in terms of what he can and cannot say. your sense of what is happenin in an investigation like thi as it appears that things ar coming to a head i think you said it exactl right things are coming to a head michael co