professor at the university of michigan and msnbc legal analyst, yamiche alcindor, nbc news washington correspondent. dasha, we re waiting, we re watching this historic moment. set the stage for us outside of trump tower. well, we have got a calm before the storm here yesterday. we had a massive crowd, a lot of noise today. it has been fairly quiet this is a business district, a tourist district, a lot of curiosity, a lot of onlookers. we have choppers overhead. we have got some anticipation building there are officers, heavy police presence here, some officers directing traffic right now, getting ready for the motorcade to make its way downtown and, look, this is a building, this is a residence that was the center of gravity for the trump campaign back in 2016, the center of his power. now, the place where he begins to make a journey that is unlike a journey that he has made in new york city before now to downtown to the courthouse where he will be arraigned, where he will
a landmark climate and health care law. democrats sided with the american people, and every single republican in the congress sided with the special interests. democrats say it s good policy, but with inflation historically high, how much will it matter in november. and mow ron desantis game the commanding general of the culture wars. we must weight the woke in our schools. we must fight the woke in our pizs. the state of florida is where woke goes to die. as he campaigns for maga candidates across the country will republican voters be willing to pitch trump for him? inside politics, the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. hello, and welcome to inside politics sunday, i m abby phillip, with the midterm primary season just about over donald trump has succeeded in defeating nearly every republican who openly opposed him. liz cheney s blowout loss is the exclamation point, the fourth republican who voted to beat trump, and to lose their primary.
are in charge of history, a decision you will make will be taught in schools, written down in history books, and then that decision awaits you today. imagine how heavy it would feel to get out of bed this morning. it s a lot. and yet that is what 12 men and women are doing right now, deciding if they believe the former president of the united states, donald trump, committed a crime, potentially multiple felonies for as the manhattan district attorney s office argues corruptly trying to interfere with an election. engaging in a so-called scheme that prosecutors say could have been what got him elected. the prosecution has told the jury they think this is a simple case, that in the weeks before the 2016 election during the fallout from the access hollywood tape, donald trump caused michael cohen to buy and bury the story of an affair with an adult film star, to hide it from you, the voters. they call that election interference, and say this case has so much evidence, it is over
Limitations to work here, the d.a. is going to have to say that the time that donald trump spent in office in washington, d.c. doesn t count, in order to make the statute of limitations work they spent five years trying to build this case, according to reporting from the new york times. if you are somebody who thinks donald trump has been unfairly targeted, unfairly picked apart over the years, doesn t all don t all of those details kind of make you feel like maybe you re right, he has been unfairly treated the fact that they had to go through so many years ofthis investigation, and then go back and use a statute of limitations carve-out to bring this case and then potentially elevate it from a misdemeanor to a felony based on a potential legal theory? no, because the reason for all of this delay is trump s own
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