chris jansing and katie tur. the first time a former u.s. president has been indicted on criminal charges donald trump, the frontrunner for the republican nomination, is in manhattan. we are waiting to learn the all important details of the sealed indictment, what the charges are, believed stemming from hush money paid to stormy daniels to buy her silence before the 2016 election about her claim of a relationship with donald trump hush money payments are not illegal. the issue is, how were they recorded we will watch history unfold. we expect to see mr. trump exit trump tower with his secret service detail and travel to lower manhattan where he will be met by a member of the district attorney s office and be placed under arrest trump will not be handcuffed no dna will be taken mr. trump will be fingerprinted. we are awaiting word on whether a mugshot will be taken. he will be moved to the courtroom for his 2:15 arraignment before judge juan merchan. he ruled there will be n
Cite as the other crime trump allegedly intended to commit or conceal . And second and perhaps most important, will the jury be allowed to consider misdemeanors as well . I want to bring in nbcs Vaughn Hillyard live outside the courthouse. Chuck rosenberg and Catherine Christian are both with us here in the studio. So chuck, explain how this decision may go and how the judge may frame the instructions, which could be really determinative as to whether a jury that might be confused or conflicted might be looking for an Exit Strategy other than a guilty verdict. So some context might be helpful. The jury has heard all the facts. The judge will now instruct the jury on the law. Itll be their map to apply the facts that they heard to the law as they are instructed. The way the two sides, the prosecutors and the defense sort of fight it out, andrea, to get their preferred Jury Instructions read to the jury. This all takes place at the thing thats about to start, a charging conference. A lot
Think theres a very interesting day fascinating. And i just want to thank well, the lawyers because theyve been really working hard well, if the goal today was to please the client, well, consider them. Pleased. Welcome to a special day. Mishnah lara codes live on day 18 of Donald Trumps criminal trial. A trial is that a lot of numbers to keep up with, right. I mean, 34, the number of felony counts, again, and trump for falsifying business records, 130,000. The amount of dollars Stormy Daniels was actually paid to keep quiet, but the number that might be sticking with the jury tonight is 96 than seconds of a critical october 2016 phone call it is now in question. On monday, cohen testified that he made that october call to trumps bodyguard man by the name of Keith Schiller to try to talk to trump. Whole point of that call to tell trump that he was planning to pay off Stormy Daniels now from tuesdays transcript here was the question, why did you need to speak with mr. Trump at that poin
colleagues who have been covering the trial from the beginning. msnbc s legal analyst lisa rubin, new york times investigative reporter susanne craig, and former federal prosecutor and former sdny criminal division deputy chief, kristy greenberg. katy, let s set the stage for what s going on at trump tower where we anticipate him speaking in about an hour, right? the assembled press is here. this is the first time i believe everyone has been back in this lobby since the donald trump transition. donald trump is going to come town his golden elevators behind me as a man running for president again, as a former president, yes, but also as a man who has now been convicted on 34 felony counts. the first former president to ever be convicted of a crime and certainly the first one, former president to be running again now that they are convicted on all of those felony counts. and he s doing it, guys, at the literal scene of the crime here in trump tower. this is where david pe
It seems likely to me that the manhattan d.a. s office has looked through this very carefully. they have access to information that they developed in the grand jury the public naymay not be ae of we may see surprises, crimes different than what we expected, perhaps an expansive conspiracy charge. jonathan, let s talk about the pressure on d.a. bragg because of these attacks from donald trump, from his supporters how much pressure and how is he expected to respond to this, if at all today, in this news conference that he is scheduled for in the 3:00 hour, we think there s an extraordinary amount of pressure on him since taking the post. initially, his predecessor did not bring a case against donald trump. it looked like bragg wouldn t either something changed. was there new evidence, new testimony that spurred the