hi, everyone, it is 4:00 in new york. i m in for nicolle wallace. the potential indictment of donald trump which would be unprecedented for this country is a story that is playing out in both new york where a grand jury could issue an indictment any day now and in washington where republicans are quickly mounting a political defense of the former president, let s begin with the developments in the case itself at this hour. on monday team trump dispatched a last-minute witness to testify before the grand jury investigating hush money payments made to porn star stormy daniels back in 2016. attorney and former confidant to michael cohen robert costello, now after his testimony he previewed a likely defense for donald trump. that this then attorney michael cohen paid the hush money payments on his own terms, take a listen to what he told reporters. michael cohen told us that he was approached by stormy daniels lawyer and stormy daniels had negative information that she wa
make sure they ve reached everyone affect by this terrible some the, the fox weather newsroom actually reporting eight fatalities nation wild in severe weather outbreak with two fatalities here in wynn. i want to show you what s behind me, this is the first united methodist church, the bell tower, unfortunately, take off this church, and what you see in front is the roof of a phloem across the street. of a home across the street. affecting hundreds, if not thousands of structures here. again, two fatalities reported with dozens being sent to area hospitals. we sawen convoys of workers and ambulances doing hair best, still fighting the storms, by the way. i spoke with a woman just as she merged from her home to survey the damage taking her first look around. ache a listen. windy and then i got in the basement. i heard, like, a loud washing machine or a loud roar like that and hen it was over. reporter: you re stepping out and seeing your up town like this. [inaudible]
off from his mar-a-lago home sometime on monday on there for the formal arraignment on this 30-plus indictment that has been handed down. he would be the first former president to have to deal with something like this. it will be historic, and we re told that plans have been made to make it as unzoo-like, if you can use such a term, as possible by closing off traffic in lower manhattan and making sure that the former president can get safely into and out of that building. he will have to be the fingerprinted, he will have to be given a mug shot. there will be no handcuffing going on here, and he will be likely field on his own reconnaissance to the head back to florida. so we re keeping track of all of those storms. let s get the ones impacting a lot of folks who in some cases are dealing with this all off again. will nunley in wynne, arkansas, with more on that. reporter: nile, many a lot of cases absolutely total losses of their homes. and in the case of wynne, loss of li
stranglehold on republican politics when a public official is indicted, the office is more important than the person, the should step aside. when all in it starts right now good evening from new york, i chris hayes. donald trump, the now indicted ex president, is reportedl facing about 30 counts related to document fraud. now, that is all we know a this point, of course. because manhattan district attorney alvin bragg has kep the indictment unsealed. we will learn the full scope o what trump is charged with whe he is arraigned in tha indictment becomes public. da bragg wanted that to happen today, but the arraignment was delayed. trump s lawyer says the secret service asked for the delay, but sources tell nbc new that s not true, that agents are ready to brink bring trump to new york at a moments notice right now the plan is for trum to fly to new york city on monday night he will spend the night at the trump tower apartmen accompanied by dozens of agent before surrend
do it for us tonight i promise you alex wagner will be back in the chair next week when she is back from vacation thanks for having me here last night, and tonight i ll see you again for m regularly scheduled rachel maddow show on monday. it s time for the last wor with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence good evening, rachel, happy friday this is a show that doesn t, you know, in an officially recognize the aging process. about tomorrow, i m going to say happy saturday, just going to leave it at that. it s paul manafort birthday tomorrow! there you go. which, it s a big deal. yeah, so, rachel, i have baltimore story for you that i ve had for years and i v been struggling in the last 20 minutes to figure out how to say this publicly. so, here s - you know, in my memoirs, thi will be much more specific okay okay. no one involved really, except me, at this point, is still alive. so - [laughs] i went to the world series i baltimore years after former govern