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
for the country, that donald trump is entitled to the presumption of innocence and all the protections, that th criminal opposite system provides for him and i hop that he has great lawyer defending him. at the same, time to me, thi is about a vindication of th rule of law as well because fo so long trump has acted like h was above the rule of law an today the district attorney, brag, and a new york grand jur finally dragged trump down t the same level as the rest o us so that is great now, what is his defense going to be? clare s right to say that we d not know what the charges ar exactly because the indictment has not been unsealed but at least it is being reported tha part of it starts with a misdemeanor offense of falsification of busines record that is something that these new york district attorney bragg does every day of th week, it s bread and butter, it s not a complicated thing that is not unusual. what makes it unusual is tha bragg is thinking abou enhancing this into some s