this is msnbc s continuing coverage of the indictment o former president donald j trump, time elevation you york, after becoming the first president i u.s. history to be impeached twice, donald trump has made history yet again, becoming th only ex president to face criminal indictment. on thursday, a grand jury vote to indict the former president as part of manhattan distric attorney alvin weiss investigation into a hush mone payment made to and at fil star stormy daniels, in 2016 that indictment is currently sealed that means we don t know the specific charges being levie against donald trump but we do know that bag ha been focusing on a felon charge, of falsifying business records, which carries a maximum sentence of four years it means that he s formerl charged with a crime but there are still severa steps in the coming days, the ex president is expected to surrender himself to authorities, after which h will be taken into custody like any other person charge with the, c
points and said he does no think it is what americans want the manhattan district attorney s office whic investigated trump s role in lunch money payments made to stormy daniels back in 201 declined to comment yesterda on trump s claims, or his cros through protest. nbc news, late last night, obtained his email sent by the da, alvin bragg, in which sh assured his staff that their safety is his top priority in part it reads, we do no tolerate attempts to intimidat our office or threaten the rul of law in new york there has been no official wor yet whether or not bright take to take the unprecedented move of indicting former president. the grand jury in this case ha not finished their work. the group is expected to reconvene tomorrow joining me now from palm beach florida. capitol correspondent, garrett hague. hague, great to see you again. you are near mar-a-lago. give us the insight into trump world. how are lawmakers reacting t trump s claim here well, other than the trut
service the actor united state attorney for the souther district of new york for march 2017 to january 2018, christie greenberg, who served as deput chief of the criminal division of the u.s. attorney s offic for the southern district of new york thank you for staying with me. kristie, let me ask you, wha you ve gleaned in the last 24, 48 hours about the charges and what s likely to happen? because it seems like there ar multiple charges, and many o most of them are misdemeanors, but there may be a felon charge involved here somehow right, there s been reporting that there are anywhere from two dozen to 3 counts in the indictment so what i would expect i would expect one of those counts t be a conspiracy count. that really allows the prosecutor to tell the story to be able to say, here s what the criminal scheme was.
this is msnbc s continuing coverage of the indictment o former president donald j trump, time elevation you york, after becoming the first president i u.s. history to be impeached twice, donald trump has made history yet again, becoming th only ex president to face criminal indictment. on thursday, a grand jury vote to indict the former president as part of manhattan distric attorney alvin weiss investigation into a hush mone payment made to and at fil star stormy daniels, in 2016 that indictment is currently sealed that means we don t know the specific charges being levie against donald trump but we do know that bag ha been focusing on a felon charge, of falsifying business records, which carries a maximum sentence of four years it means that he s formerl charged with a crime but there are still severa steps
councillor how many counts there are. there were 11 checks i would expect we have a rathe large indictments with at leas 11 different counties. sub counts, we are going to be looking to see exactly how the felony explained all legal observers are lookin to see whether or not there is going to be a second felon charge in there or whether o not he uses a different theory of the case that is what we are looking for all of the complaints about ho totally unfair this is our somewhat shocking given that w don t have any idea what the counts are or what the charges are or what bragg knows! what he found out in terms o corroboration. it is pretty immature and show that this is a political defense is not a legal defense i was gonna say i think that s why people are saying t calm down in just wait and see how this plays out this week i think a lot of people ar watching this, barbara, with a