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
he paid through michael cohe the hush money, which is a serious offense according to federal prosecutors, tha imperils our democracy so people who are saying it is just a hush money campaign violations game, no, that is not what the federal prosecutors who sent michael cohen to prison, and they said he was directed to do what h did by donald trump. why did the federal prosecutor jump to that conclusion? from evidence. i am saying to everyone, kee your powder dry, e is presumed innocent, but this jury is going to get a lot of evidence to back up with david pecker and michael cohen say and then inches up to the jury to decid beyond a reasonable doubt. have your michael cohen being contacted, today, by the manhattan da s office? i cannot tell you about those contacts i can t tell you the answe that i will say that in the recen days i was struck by the level of detail of the questions and answers that michael had t provide, down to the
for. it that was not the merric garland justice department, it was not the bronco boma justic department, it was the donal trump justice department tha made that filing so every time you hear thi thing about this hush mone thing is political, remember it was trump s own justice department that called this crime back in 2018 we will be speaking t michael cohen s lawyer, lonnie davis a little later in th hour and neil, just so you know earlier this evening i spoke t her lawyer stephanie clifford no longer goes by that name, it is onl stormy daniels she was actually horseback riding when the news broke when she went inside her, much like many othe people, trump and his lega team included her phone wa blowing up, she is completel surprised by the news today. glenwood do you think? you know steph, i have to believe that alvin bragg s team, if they saw fit to bring thi
united states or other republicans leaders saying going to the streets to protes this, you threaten the da, threaten jury members, you kno threatened secretaries o states and states around the country that trump - in the 2020 election, that i mob rule and when we have got elected officials advocating role in the street rather than the rul of law, that was when ou country is really in jeopardy. i hope that we do not see it i agree with you righ there. michael, thank you for joining us on this very important night. for those of you at home, do not go anywhere. this historic moment in u.s. history will continutoe cover under the full hour of special coverage, right after this stick with us. le achieved 90% clearer skin at 4 months, after just 2 doses. serious allergic reactions and an increased risk of infections or a lower ability to fight them may occur.
coverage of the indictment o former president donald trump. trump s former attorney an fixer michael cohen for many years has, of course been, a key witness in this case he met repeatedly with prosecutors and testifie before the grand jury earlie this month with me now is lonnie davis, attorney for michael cohen we have been watching this fro the sidelines for the past seven years. you have been intricatel involved in all of this as michael cohen s attorney what is your reaction? the most important reaction is let the process work an talking heads and, pungently graduates of the sovereign district of new york who are former prosecutors doing gig on cable television, instead o re-judging a jury trial, and talking about michael cohen credibility and whether he should be doing television o