former president s reaction and what it means for his campaign good day i m andrea mitchell in washington with what we are learning about the historic indictment of a former president and frontrunner for the 2024 presidential nomination. the indictment is currently under seal a source with direct knowledge of the court proceedings says prosecutors are not expected to ask a judge to unseal it today two sources familiar with the matter say the indictment has approximately 30 counts of charges related to document fraud. one of trump s lawyers told savannah guthrie that the former president is expecting to travel to new york tuesday to surrender to authorities and be arraigned. do you expect the president to voluntarily surrender will he come for his arraignment? we are working out those logistics right now. absolutely he is not going to stay in mar-a-lago we will face it. we will be successful, i m sure. he is currently expected to appear before a judge sometime tuesday
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To come here folks decided to take time out of their day to defend the man that they say is being unfairly persecuted this is going to take the oxygen out of any campaign season if there were going to be one over the next several months. it certainly makes it difficult to contemplate a normal campaign at this point. jonathan, you write the same forces that made trump, just got him indicted the charges that have yet to be unsealed are out of the pages of new york tabloids in the 1980s talk to us about that. sure. donald trump is very much a creature of new york city and its tabloids someone who decided that fame would be his best currency as he started in real estate trying to become a developer and a celebrity one at that. he would act as his own spokesman. he would adopt a fake name and call in and plant gossip items,
Responsibility on earth that whatever visited humility on donald trump. reporter: oval office aside, these donald trump watchers say he s still donald trump. tweeting p trump has been planting gossip items his whole life. reporter: craving attention. he would be bereft if that spotlight turned away from them. look at all those cameras. i think what we have seen in the president s distortions, mistakes and really occasionally outright lies is him attempting to use the method he always used in the past to get out of it. say anything, divert attention, and run on to the next topic. reporter: he runs his white house like he ran his business, often improvising. he s the king of chaos. i think he likes being right in the middle of the storm.
Winning at this moment. that s because essentially the best spotlight on things that are going on in the government that the public needs to know is the press right now. i think the last year we ve seen a reinvigoration in the press. the washington post is hiring dozens of reporters, the new york times hiring dozens of folks and that s good for the country because we need to know what our government is doing and there s plenty of fodder for journalists to uncover in this particular administration. and you see in donald trump utter confusion that, as he puts it, the washington post and the nework times are allowed to do this. this is a guy who spent decades trafficking in gossip items with playing his own publicist. he was trading off stuff and then he s also stunned that the judiciary has a role, that he could write an executive order that could be reviewed by a mir judge in seattle and that could stop everything. that seems to be news to him. well, this is what happe