to start this hour, let s brea down all of the news and how i view the trump indictment. sources familiar with th matter tell nbc news that trum faces around 30 charges of documented fraud connected to hush mone payments that he allegedly mad to cover up fast affairs in th run up to the 2016 election. two sources tell the associate press that it includes at leas one felony offense, and th exact charges at this moment against the ex president are still unknown. because the indictment remains sealed nbc news has now joined coalition of news organization urging that the indictment t be unsealed, citin overwhelming public interest ahead of trump s scheduled arraignment next tuesday that group is also requestin that cameras be allowed inside the courtroom during tuesday s proceedings. according to the new york times, trump and his aides were caugh off guard by the timing of the grand jury indictment which wa made public thursday afternoon thinking that any action was perhaps still
tonight, we are going to giv you the context and th perspective you need t understand how these next fe weeks and months will unfold you are going to hear about th strength of alvin bragg s case against donald trump, an congressman ted lieu wil respond to republican attack on the da. and later, the other massive illegal news from the, week th fox defamation lawsuit lap and guess which programs are o the hit list i m ayman, let s get started to start this hour, let s brea down all of the news and how i view the trump indictment. sources familiar with th matter tell nbc news that trum faces around 30 charges of document fraud connected t hush money payments that h allegedly made it to cover u past affairs in the run up t the 2016 election. two sources tell the associate press that includes at least one felony offense, and th exact charges at this moment against the ex president are still unknown because th indictment remains sealed. nbc news has now joined coalition of a new or
evidence what do you say, it wa actually quite outrageous? he is essentially saying tha you could not prosecute donald trump just because he is donal trump. there is really no other reaso for his remarks. he hasn t even seen th evidence or the charges. and finally there has bee some of this kind of anti-semitic attacks on george soros trying to link him t alvin bragg. but i wanted to get your thoughts on the calls fo protests you have marjorie taylor green saying she s gonna come to new york to protest. and i think a lot of people wh remember what happened o january 6th, and certainly you probably know better than most we have to meet up there on th screen how afraid are you, not of mas protests, but violence the threat of violence the rhetoric that donald trump has been posting on social media with the insinuation o violence right, well just in a ver general level, if republican like kevin mccarthy will jus issued one statement that said
some of this kind of anti-semitic attacks on george soros trying to link him t alvin bragg. but i wanted to get your thoughts on the calls fo protests you have marjorie taylor green saying she s gonna come to new york to protest. and i think a lot of people wh remember what happened o january 6th, and certainly you probably know better than most we have to meet up there on th screen how afraid are you, not of mas protests, but violence the threat of violence the rhetoric that donald trump has been posting on social media with the insinuation o violence right, well just in a ver general level, if republican like kevin mccarthy will jus issued one statement that said the election was not stolen, that would tamp down the political violence that coul happen and with respect to this case, certainly every american has the right to exercise thei first amendment rights but if you are going to assaul someone or engage in propagand
strong case or it is a wea case we simply don t know and i can see it coming on tuesday, there is going to b some surprises in there. you know, we don t know that the falsification of the business records has, you know entered its way into tax fraud we will be looking for that an honestly could be serious if i did. i just think we don t know and that is, to say it is weak case or a strong case, think both are sort of jus misplaced right now. and all of this harkens back to, i remember when they brought the charges against the trum organization and everyone said, oh, it is going to be such a hard case because we have to prove tha allen weisselberg did it o behalf of the company. there was this very specific language that had to be proven in court and that is what the jury vote on and they did, even though, you know, in the run-up, on months on, and we were hearing it i going to be such a difficult case and the jurors looked at it an obviously they found that.