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
in hindsight, nobody is talkin about. that it wasn t a good case and they got a guilty verdict. i think with the wind at their back they are bringing this. case but i think we just don t know and i am going to be the first thing i m going to be doing is looking for potential ta violations there was a conversation tha is very interesting and michae cohen s book, where he and allen weisselberg, he believes this conversation where alle weisselberg is, there is the falsification of the records and their legal problems the new york times is not only a lot of tax information we can see that that, whatever happened, michael cohen didn t get issued a ten 9 miscellaneous. which would be the form that w would be looking for in the ta records. and that is just a simple, her is a legal fee and we ar paying you, michael cohen has w to salaried employee of th trump organization he never got a ten 99. we can t see it in a very clea look but allen weisselberg said well, maybe we should bury i over a
strong case or it is a wea case we simply don t know and i can see it coming on tuesday, there is going to b some surprises in there. you know, we don t know that the falsification of the business records has, you know entered its way into tax fraud we will be looking for that an honestly could be serious if i did. i just think we don t know and that is, to say it is weak case or a strong case, think both are sort of jus misplaced right now. and all of this harkens back to, i remember when they brought the charges against the trum organization and everyone said, oh, it is going to be such a hard case because we have to prove tha allen weisselberg did it o behalf of the company. there was this very specific language that had to be proven in court and that is what the jury vote on and they did, even though, you know, in the run-up, on months on, and we were hearing it i going to be such a difficult case and the jurors looked at it an obviously they found that.