the west coast, 3 am in the, east i m ali velshi you re watching msnbc s indictment of donald trump, in just a few, hours americans will be waking up to this front page for th new york times, the head lin reads quote, the first e president to face criminal charges. trump indictment going acros the top manner on thursday, an unprecedente move and grand jury in new york voted to indict the former president donald trump, part o manhattan district attorne alvin bragg s investigatio into a hush money payment, mad to the adult film star storm daniels back in 2016 as of right, now we do not kno what specific crime or crime the vice president s bee charged with, but we shoul know more on tuesday, when i going to one of trump s lawyers, he s expected to be arraigned. and we do know that alvin bragg, i ve been focusing on a felony charge of falsifying busines records which carries a maximu prison sentence of four year we will forget the possibl prison sentence, here s what w can come e
different jurisdiction these are state prosecutions is no at the federal government wher it s all one united states, so if donald trump decided that h was not going to self-surrender, and fly himself up to manhattan, to self surrender to the criminal courts there then the district attorney in new yor has to pursue essentially an extradition it s a treat between the states or among th states, where somebody was indicted in one state they hav to make a request to the other state, where the defendant i located, the defendant then ha the right to appear in court i that state, in this instance i would be florida, and a judg has to find that there i enough cause, in other words the charges are charges that would be recognized unde florida state law as well, and he has to order the defendan removed, to the state of new york, now as you noted, in thi case it doesn t appear, that methodology is gonna be used