welcome to msnbc specia coverage of the indictment o former president, donald trump i m jonathan capehart live fro msnbc headquarters in new york and i am katie phang. and we begin today with a history that will unfold befor our eyes, and just under 7 hours. former president donald trum is set to turn himself in at 2:15 pm eastern time thi tuesday. we are learning much more about exactly how that dramati moment will take place the former president wil arrive in new york city monday evening, and on tuesday, the will be driven from trump towe to the courthouse around 1 p eastern time as of now, there are no plans to handcuff him, and n plans to place him in a holdin cell but there will b fingerprinted. trump will then leave new york that same night, and head back to florida. so, katie, this i
by saudi arabia after the killing of jamal khashoggi, saying further action would be economically damaging to the u.s. this in spite of a cia assessment that reportedly found saudi arabia s crown prince ordered khashoggi s murder. an repeated calls from republicans and democrats for further action. hi, benjamin. president trump s statement was certainly a intended to be the final word on this. national security, jobs, economy were all key issues behind the decision-making. a broad end of the u.s. on both sides of the political aisle. it is a delicate situation, we have a long-term ally we ve had for decades but we have a crown prince that i believe directed the killing of a journalist. and i just the language that was used, it was as if they were
focusing his attention just recently, i suspect he d be asking questions relating to the june 2016 meeting in trump towe trump tower, we don t know whether this is going to lead to an early end or an imminent end to the investigation because possibly the presidents answers, will produce further avenues of inquiry that robert mueller wants to follow. julie: what kind of further inquiry wouldn t potentially produce? more questions for the president or what other people be somehow drawn into this investigation. certainly it could draw other people in, i suspect the legal team at the white house has tried every hard to make sure this doesn t create some sort of spreading investigation and perpetuate it but one of the things, the obvious question is, is robert mueller satisfied with the answers he gets? potentially he is but if he isn t, he may have some
potential inconsistencies, arguing legal exposure may persist. if trump answers with any specificity, his responses will be overlaid with the testimony of a host of cooperating witnesses. if statements by trump do not match up, congress will be left with a stark choice over who is lying on the issue. the legal team made a statement and significantly the questions dealt with russia-related topics, not the firing of former fbi director james comey as part of any obstruction investigation. saying it has been our position from the outset that much of what has been asked raised serious constitutional issues, beyond the scope of a legitimate inquiry. the president has nonetheless provided unprecedented cooperation. the legal team went on to
have a good explanation for that. you better have evidence to back up the situation and that s what we are asking for here. give us the evidence that would support that. but was someone actually inserted into the campaign? makes it sound like this person had an office in is ttrump towe as i understand it, he didn t know papadopoulos, he reached out to him. he didn t know carter page. that doesn t mean he wasn t part of the campaign. he was reaching out. he was having meetings and the president said in one of his tweets, if the doj is basically he said if the doj infiltrated a campaign for the benefit of another campaign that is a pretty big deal. do you think that s what they were trying to do?