Welcome to Msnbc Specia Coverage of the indictment o former president , donald trump im Jonathan Capehart live fro Msnbc Headquarters in new york and i am katie phang. And we begin today with a history that will unfold befor our eyes, and just under 7 hours. Former president donald trum is set to turn himself in at 2 15 pm eastern time thi tuesday. We are learning much more about exactly how that dramati moment will take place the former president wil arrive in new york city monday evening, and on tuesday, the will be driven from trump towe to the courthouse around 1 p eastern time as of now, there are no plans to handcuff him, and n plans to place him in a holdin cell but there will b fingerprinted. Trump will then leave new york that same night, and head back to florida. So, katie, this i incredible what we are about to see and we have never seen anythin like this in all of ou history. A former president of Th United States indicted by an manhattan grand jury and we use the adag unpr
1921 in the teapot bribery scandal. but he died in office first. richard nixon faced almost certain indictment after the watergate scandal forced his resignation in 1974. but he was pardoned. the cases were as close as any current or former president ha ever come. in the 234 years since georg washington took office and tel donald trump s indictment on thursday by a manhattan gran jury joining me now, nbc news presidential historian thank you for being here peter baker at the new yor times said quote, so man unthinkable first have occurre since donald j trump was elected to the white house i 2016 so many unimaginable event have shock the world that it i easy to lose sight of ho astonishing this particula moment really is michael, do you agree with that? i agree and i also say that the best way to look at this i
character qualities of georg washington by and large that often time happened, it did not happen in 2016 with donald trump remedy the, impeachment. the president misbehaves i office, then we impeachment an throw him out. well, there were two impeachments one while trump was in office, and one of course immediatel after the insurrection he got acquitted in both so that is a toothless remedy. what we are left with is now that he is out, we have a gran jury and other legal authorities around the country taking a look at what he did before he was president like possible payment of hush money while he was president inspiring and insurrection after he was president, taking classified documents away, lying about them and refusin to return them the system is supposed t punish people like that, i
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