it s the first time in hi life that the guy is actuall being held accountable for his own dirty deeds. did you think that this day would ever come for this man karma is a big pitch. we don t know what but what we do know is that th republican party has decided i not going to take an off ram once again give the president some money to bite this bowl [bleep so demanding that da brag essentially hand over all of his evidence - you have no jurisdictio here it will require them to b pro-hush money payments to por stars, pro insurrection, pro classified documents sitting around at mar-a-lago - arrested me for so many things oh, those prosecutors. this is a genuine test of how much war we are as a democracy that believes in liberty under law. and i don t know how we ar going to do. good evening once again i m stephanie ruhle, back at msnbc headquarters in new york city donald trump s true hometown this weekend, the former president will likely be preparing
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and, republicans for the mos part, have rallied around hi echoing his claims that th legal system has bee weaponized for those of us with lon memory no trump has a little regard for the rule of law he didn t care about the process when he was calling fo the central park five to b executed before they had their day in court he didn t care about political witch hunts when he campaigned on lock and locking up his opponent, hillary clinton with a chance of lock her up. and now it appears as if trump s refusal to live by the same rules as the rest of us may finally be catching up wit him. and, if it does, the payback will be richly deserved. a very busy hour ahead, and we start with the perfect guest joining me now is former attorney for donald trump, michael cohen. author of the book, revenge an host of mere call bowl podcast michael, thank you for joining us again always. michael, you have been us a the center of the stormy daniels hush money case from the beginning. first a
social media ahead of his cour appearance his ex fixer warning today tha trump s posts should be take seriously. including the image of the manhattan da next to a basebal bat. what he is doing, he is trying to invoke fear. and intimidation but at the same time he is als passing a message to his supporters baseball that s. they work to republican congressma marjorie taylor greene, she is already planning a rally outside the courthouse she is angling to be trump s vice president i know you ran for those things democrats, while they ar already calling out her ba faith attacks on the legal system some of these people are th ones who are hollering a hillary clinton to lock her up now somehow they are now sayin that trump is a victim well, you can t have it both ways you know, you want to lock the democrats up but you want to free the republicans donald trump s indictment confirms our laws do apply t the most powerful and contrary to republican rhetoric, that i proof of a r
tonight on the reidout give the president some money to fight this [ bleep ]. this is going to destroy america. we re going to fight back at the ballot box we re not going to give in how does this end? trump wins in court and he wins the election that s how this ends for their exalted twice impeached indicted leader, donald trump as we learn much more about the charges he likely faces and how his arraignment will play out on tuesday. michael cohen, trump s longtime fixer who went to prison for his role in these same alleged crimes joins me tonight. plus, the same republicans who scream about states rights are now trying to intimidate a local prosecutor manhattan d.a. alvin bragg the truth is trump is being treated just like any other accused criminal and significantly better than, i don t know, say the central park five but we begin tonight on this new day in our country, a day that shows to the world that no one, not even a former president, is above the law. the