midnight on the east coast i am stephanie ruhle and we ar continuing our breaking news coverage of the indictment o former president donald trump. the grand jury in manhatta indicted him earlier today making trump the first forme president to ever face crimina charges in our nation history. those jurors have been hearing evidence of hush money payments, made to adult film star stormy daniels during the 201 presidential campaign. trump s current lawyers issued a statement saying he did no commit any crime and they plan to vigorously fight this political prosecution. one trump attorney tells nbc trump is expected to b arraigned on tuesday in ne york let s bring in our panel o experts to break it all down simone sanders townsend, msnbc host and former chie spokesperson for kamala harris harry lippman, former u.s. attorney and deputy assistan journey jonathan allen, senior analyst reporter for nbc news. and tim o brien, bloomberg opinion senior columnist and the man who wrote
and republican congressman joints us for answers. [indiscernible] also breaking tonight, the senate passing a bipartisan gun safety bill paid the bill now goes to the house on friday. we will be tracking that. critics are filing on tonight. details from the simple instructions on how to act like [indiscernible] we begin with all eyes on th supreme court the next batch just hours away. the ruling on guns came thursday . i m disappointed. the president may be but gun rights applicants are feeling vindicated. they are celebrating the decision finding new york s restrictive framework unconstitutional. the challenge to the law arose because it requires applicants for a concealed carry permit to show a specialized need for sel protection. siding with the majority come m clarence thomas said it is not second-class rate, adding that new york s proper cause violate the 14th amendment and prevents law-abiding substance with ordinary self-defense need from exercising their rig
top of the hour. glad you are with us on this special holiday edition of cnn this morning. israel says that hamas hostages won t be released until tomorrow. we are standing by for word from qatar, the down mediating the deal, on when the truce will begin. fiery explosion shuts down a significant border crossing with canada following a speeding bentley which hit a median and burst into flames. the driver and his wife killed. the fbi saying this was not be a act of terrorism. and also the macy s thanksgiving day parade starting in half an hour. officials saying there are no specific threats around the annual tradition. and they are warning of a heightened threat environment though. this hour of cnn this morning starts now. we have a team covering this from tel aviv to cairo. and we re waiting for qatar to announce when a four day truce will begin so that the hostages can start to be released. you see they willing ready for the press conference. we ll bring it to you
indictment right we keep seeing the, numbers we saw the republican apparatus defended him after tha indictment came out. but these may not be the onl indictments that we see before the republican primaries are over at what point the republican voters even say that you kno these things made donald trump too weak of a candidate, too much fanfare well we don t know, tha what we do know is that in the short run republican voter like donald trump even more. his lead in the polls is actually gone up and the republican base. and although it is early, we may have indictments comin down from georgia, the department of justice. i think it s pretty obvious, what the republican apparatu and republican elites will do. they just cannot quit donald trump. they are all, in defending him against listened that mean that they have not seen and think that is going to be th pattern. that they aren t stuck, they just can t quit this guy they are locked into this norm that something else will com
beef audible or confuse anyone it is consistent with th pattern of behavior that w have known and become very familiar with, at least in washington in the last six years. and to new yorkers know all to well, for a much longer than that so can we dial back the oh m god, this is - yes it is a sad day with regar to that, but he is a unite states citizens who action were brought before a gran jury that grand jury found probable cause for indictment for crime committed, that process will take place on tuesday and th rule of law will continu thereafter take us inside your phone michael. take us inside to your tex messages, your child s wit fellow republicans who hav been with the party like you for decades and decades. while many republican affected officials are out ther tweeting those statements, going after alvin bragg, i part of that just for show and