to the breaking news tonight. now, former president donald j. trump has been indicted by a criminal court in new york city . he will be arraigned ink that wl manhattan at some point next week. we are told will likelyke new be tuesday. fake news. cncnn is reporting that he coull face over 30 charges. in a statement, trump is saying, quote, political persecution and election interference at the highesution ant level in hit from the time i camehe down the golden escalator trump tower, and even before i wasfore sworn in as your president of pt the u.s., the radical left t democrats, the enemy of the hard working men and women of this country. they have been engaged in a a witch to destroy the makey th america great again movement. now, you remember it just like i do. russia, russia, russiae , the muehler hoke s, ukraine, ukraine, ukraine, impeachment, hoke s one impeachment hoke s to the illegal and unconstitutional mar-a-lago rage. and now this. he s right after years ofn partis
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
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
the crime of falsifyin business records as a felony they have to show that it wa done in connection with second crime tell us about the challenge in that and how prosecutors might feel about making that case i see this light choose you own adventure. there are two pathways tha bragg could go down. which are not mutually exclusive. one is that campaign finance violation, that thes repayments were concealing the you know, what were actually hush money payments. and those should have been disclosed all as campaig expenditures as a contribution that runs into various legal contribution issues.