good day from msnbc worl headquarters in new york welcome to alex witt reports i m lindsey reiser developing this hour, a ne poll suggest that donald trump s indictment may b causing political damage a majority poll think th former president intentionally acted illegally. 20% believe he did nothing wrong. now just 25% of will be 61%, unfavourably. earlier today, trump s lawye in another probe said th former presidents legal team will likely fight to dismiss the manhattan da s case. we ve been through this if there s an actual legal basis for disqualification they will pursue it. i think there will be some ver well placed motions to dismiss based on the legal frailties o this kind of mental gymnastics indictment that allen is tryin to piece together. new today, to tennessee state democrats could be on path to reinstatement this wee after being ousted b republicans. it comes as followed grows ove their obstacle shun, and despairing of their whit colleague for protesting g
wants to use year. i m not going to say that they want - that michael cohen s already pled guilty to multiple climbs including perjury, lying t congress i m not sure that anyone s going to want to add on th prosecution, side add anothe tax crime to michael cohen, in order for him to testify tha that was the purpose of thes payments i m not sure that the tax issu is going to fly in this case for that very reason as for all these other players look, the big irony here is we spent the last, you, know more than two years talking about whether donald trump was going to be held accountable for the defense of 2020, and his attempts to overturn the election of course, the events that led to january six yeah, the irony here is th first criminal case agains donald trump goes back to th 2016 election. his very election in the first place. you know, the implication seem to be that information was