service the actor united state attorney for the souther district of new york for march 2017 to january 2018, christie greenberg, who served as deput chief of the criminal division of the u.s. attorney s offic for the southern district of new york thank you for staying with me. kristie, let me ask you, wha you ve gleaned in the last 24, 48 hours about the charges and what s likely to happen? because it seems like there ar multiple charges, and many o most of them are misdemeanors, but there may be a felon charge involved here somehow right, there s been reporting that there are anywhere from two dozen to 3 counts in the indictment so what i would expect i would expect one of those counts t be a conspiracy count. that really allows the prosecutor to tell the story to be able to say, here s what the criminal scheme was.
come to trump s defense. including former attorne general bill barr, who ech some of trump s talking points when asked to comment about th indictment at the national review ideas summit yesterday. judging from the news reports it s you know, it s th archetype will abuse of th prosecutorial function to engage in a political hijab it s a disgrace if it turns ou to be what we think it is. politically, it s gonna be damaging i think to th republican party, simply because, i think it s a no los situation for the democrats. legally i think it s, from wha i understand, it s patheticall weak case. the tone, the town, or th substance of much of trump s world response to hi indictment seems focused o undermining the justice system in order to undercut the
while, there he will b fingerprinted, processed, an have charges right to him by judge ron marchand, who will officially over c the case he s the same judge that presided over the trum organization criminal tax frau trial last year. it resulted in the company being fined the maximum penalt of one point $6 million. none of, that the unsealing of the indictment, formal arraignment, and all of th logistics that go along with it, none of that is happened yet but trump many of his allies have already begun criticizing and accusing the justice syste of being corrupt and biase against him. donald trump, like anyon accused of a crime in th united states is presume innocent until proven guilty he s entitled to his day i court, in order to defen himself. but his focus at the momen does not seem to be hi defense. it seems to be o delegitimizing the justice system altogether. he seems to have the ful support of the republican part with him the vast majority of elected members of which have alread
politician, who somehow made i into the white house was zer political experience only to b disgraced as the first president to be impeached twic while in office, he s now th first current or forme president of the united states to be criminally indicted in history. nbc news has learned that hi indictment includes about 30 charges related to documen fraud. those are classified a misdemeanors the associated press i reporting that according to it sources, trump is also facin at least one felony charge seven from the manhattan district attorney alvin bragg investigation of the forme presidents role in the hus money payment made to th former adult film star storm daniels, with whom he allegedl had an affair. donald trump denies a resume affair and her new interview with the london-based times radio tha aired yesterday. daniel said she s not afraid she even hopes to be called to testify against trump. trump s indictment is expected to remain sealed unti tuesday afternoon when h scheduled
some random people standing on the bridge the other night but what is going on in terms of preparations for four protests as don trump gets ready to leave and be arrested? right, so far we have onl seen a couple dozen folks over the course of the last days of outside of mar-a-lago. they have not seemed like great threat, they tell us there there are more to part and rally around him than to protest, per se. i think the concern is obviously it is one of potential attacks. individuals who are inspired b donald trump who even before the indictment there was a suggestion there could be quote, potential death or destruction if you were to be charged year of turmoil, chaos, and hatred. all of those in his own word before the indictment. we have seen a history o individuals that have gone o the attack you have the likes of the ma who went and attacked the fb field office in ohio las august after the search warran was executed here at mar-a-lago you have than last november th