good evening, everyone. i am ayman mohyeldin. is seven pm here on the east coast, which means the polls are now officially close. tonight s primary contests, marking the first official primary for democrats and in the first time that president joe biden s name appeared on a ballot this election season. now, alongside him on the ballot, democratic rivals, congressman dean phillips and marianne williamson. steve kornacki is live for us from washington prepared to break down the results for us. any moment now, as soon as we get them. however, to be clear, the nights outcome is all but decided. biden stands as the overwhelming favorite tonight in the state. and what we really want to watch out for you tonight is how many delegates he leaves south carolina with. a total of 55 will be awarded proportionally based on tonight s outcome. a candidate needs a total of nearly 2000 delegates to capture the democratic nomination. meanwhile, breaking news overseas tonight. the u.s. and uk l
politician, who somehow made i into the white house was zer political experience only to b disgraced as the first president to be impeached twic while in office, he s now th first current or forme president of the united states to be criminally indicted in history. nbc news has learned that hi indictment includes about 30 charges related to documen fraud. those are classified a misdemeanors the associated press i reporting that according to it sources, trump is also facin at least one felony charge seven from the manhattan district attorney alvin bragg investigation of the forme presidents role in the hus money payment made to th former adult film star storm daniels, with whom he allegedl had an affair. donald trump denies a resume affair and her new interview with the london-based times radio tha aired yesterday. daniel said she s not afraid she even hopes to be called to testify against trump. trump s indictment is expected to remain sealed unti tuesday afternoon when h
Cycle runs for so long, we r still quite a bit away from the au sable of confidence, given how long these trial take, that it won t bleed into closely? i think it will unfortunate because of how lon these election cycles run, and how long cases and trials go criminal cases could go before they go to trial, it s unfortunately probably gonna run into look, most of the electio democracies, the electio period is described. you know the date by what yo have to be done because there an election period this is america. we re in election period all the time stay right, here i want to jus take a break and come back t continue this conversation also coming up we ll talk to someone who s known don turn for 35 years plus we ll talk to experts about how the news of th indictment is being treated by conspiracy theorists and followers of the forme president. also talk about what this al means about the current stat of american democracy for th man who helped save democrac back in 2020, judge