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
lindsey graham soundtrack, w should be marjorie taylo greene tweet and yet you have some senior republican lawmakers lik minority leader mitch mcconnel said, it made in already wit john tonight who have remained silent what do you make of thei silence? is silence in this case, i don t know what the right word is i want to say complicity. but his silence accepted so to speak? it is probably wise because as everybody has pointed out we haven t seen the charge yet. if as a, speculated there is gonna be that bragg will b able to tie the falsificatio of business records into a tas rhyme then that becomes a much more serious matter. but i think, look, we know tha mcconnell and many republicans senators have had it wit donald trump he wants nothing more to d with him so they are not going to say anything to feed his grievance over this. but i should point out that as
what do you make of thei silence? is silence in this case, i don t know what the right word is i want to say complicity. but his silence accepted so to speak? it is probably wise because as everybody has pointed out we haven t seen the charge yet. if as a, speculated there is gonna be that bragg will b able to tie the falsificatio of business records into a tas rhyme then that becomes a much more serious matter. but i think, look, we know tha mcconnell and many republicans senators have had it wit donald trump he wants nothing more to d with him so they are not going to say anything to feed his grievance over this. but i should point out that as weak as i think this case is it is worth pointing out tha there are far more serious investigations going on fo donald trump, he isn t muc