one donald j. trump. the new york times is reporting that prosecutors in the manhattan district attorney s office are signaling that criminal charges for the former president are likely to come for his role in the hush money payments to porn star stormy daniels. the times reports the prosecutors offered mr. trump the chance to testify next week before the grand jury that has been hearing evidence in the potential case according to four people with knowledge of the matter. such offers almost always indicate an indictment is close. it would be unusual for the district attorney, alvin bragg, to notify a potential defendant without ultimately seeking charges against him. the manhattan district attorney s office has declined to comment. now, if those charges are made, it would be the first indictment of a former united states president and the first time that trump, who has faced numerous criminal investigations, would be charged with a crime. as you may remember, that $130,000
have ever faced charges in connection to the payments to daniels, even though trumps was implicated in the case by the federal government. back in 2018 in a sentencing memo for michael cohen, federal prosecutors said that trump, quote, acted in coordination with and at the direction of individual one. individual win is none other than the ex-president himself. the meeting today is also taking place at a time when discussions of the criminal culpability is being royaled by allegations of the veteran prosecutor mark pom rans who said the question of criminal culpability over hush money payments is one of many significant unanswered questions about the multiple state, local and federal investigations into the ex-president. watch that. i am myself at a loss to understand what happened at the conclusion of the hush money investigation or for that matter why there was no federal investigation of trump s business finances, husband tax returns, his financial statements shs when th
hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. before the january 6th select committee ever got off the ground, before it existed, and well before the first signs ever emerged that the justice department was investigating the trump part of the trump coup plot, before even donald trump s second impeachment trial wrapped up. one local prosecutor in georgia decided she would take on donald trump and the unprecedented assault on our democracy in the wake of the 2020 election and she launched a criminal probe into the conduct of the ex-president and his allies in her state. today, about two years and one week to the day that that investigation was launched, we finally got our first real glimpse into her work. the work of fulton county district attorney fannie willis. portions of her report compiled by a special grand jury were released this morning. the report gives us a sense of the depth of her investigation. 75 witnesses, a mountain of documents and data. along with testimony from
stephanie ruhle, you still hav a show to do tonight at 11 eastern. we ve got lots to go lots to go now it s time to hand the whee to our colleague lawrenc o donnell. thank you, rachel donald trump was speaking, a you, know during your coverage and after the judge said i court today that he wanted the parties to this case to stop saying inflammatory things donald trump went right afte the judge and his wife today so, tonight, in that speech. so, we ll see, the judge could react to that very quickly after setting the preceden today in today s arraignment for, you know, don t do that kind of thing. so, we ll see what happens next we are entering potentially a new area of consequences for that kind of behavior for that particular politician. we are. thank you, rachel. thank you. today, donald trump took the longest trip of his life it was from his apartment in midtown manhattan to the courthouse in lower manhattan, where he would be fingerprinte and discover the contents of
rally goers in the bleachers behind trump, waved around posters that read witch hunt as trump continue to complain about the unfairness of all the investigations into his conduct. he went as far as the parkland open is asian of the justice system is quote race central issue of our time. he repeated the infamous lie that he debuted at cpac this year. i am your retribution. all this is happening as trump in the country wait for news of a possible indictment in one or more of the ongoing investigations to which he is subject right now. one of his truth social post this past week, trump even called for the immediate removal of the four prosecutors who are leading those investigations. the manhattan district attorney, alvin bragg, the new york attorney general, letitia james, the fulton county district attorney, department justices special prosecutor jack smith. and indictment could happen as soon as tomorrow. with the grand jury in manhattan investigating trump s role in the hu