headlines in the days, weeks months, even years to come right now, donald trump and hi golf club in west palm beach set to become the first former president to appear in court a a criminal defendant here is what is expected t unfold trump will arrive in new yor city monday night, tuesday around 1 pm or so, he ll b driven from trump tower to the courthouse as of now, he will not b handcuffed, nor will he be placed in a holding cell he will be booked, and vigor printed. tuesdays also when we re expected to learn the exac charges trump is facing. earlier, the former president lawyers gave some new strategy details. we re not doing anything because that would b showmanship, and nothing more. we haven t even seen the indictment yet we will take the indictment, w will dissect it, we will loo at every potential issue tha will be able to challenge, i very much anticipates meanwhile, the reaction fro a lawyer, trump s former attorney, points to the star witness in the hush mo
that the person they call th individual one, who was donald trump. they laid out the scheme there when it came to lookin at the question of trying to charge trump, they could i charge of this presidents. that office looked at the case after trump left office, i concluded that they couldn t charge this case there were some real concern that federal prosecutors had a both michael cohen s credibility. those were queer people. there was some political influence. now it s been reported by jeff berman in his book, the former u.s. attorney and others, by some senior people of the trum administration over that office all reported at nbc news her that didn t make a differenc in how they perceive this case they ultimately sought differently. here s a reminder, this woul be a much cleaner situation if this case was being brought by the justice department, alex interesting what are you hearing,, cannonball the doj and special counsel, jack smith saw this does this indictment, does i complicate t
it clear that i was willing to go on the stand and tell m story if they needed me. but at this very moment in time, i have not officially been called it looked like i was going t be called to friday s ago an then changed, so it changes by the minute honestly. does this mean she may not b so pivotal to the case after all? i think that s true look, alex, the folks that wer at the heart of this schem were donald trump, michael cohen, david pecker, dylan howard at the national enquirer, and then the lawyer wh represented both stormy daniels, and karen mcdougal and terms of the actua negotiations of the hush money payments, whether paid by th enquirer to karen mcdougal, or that paid by michael - to stormy daniels, neither o the women who were directl involved in communications wit the trump side, all of tha happened through their lawyers to the extent that the distric attorney will need som
okay, family on sundays, let s get into this. john, what do you make that th reactions to the indictment? what has been your own reaction? how big of an impact does this all have you know, i don t think i has much of an impact on democrats preparation for th 2024 presidential race we knew all along that - against ronda sanchez. why? as we are reminded very ofte on the program, it s never bee clear that donald trump is running for president in a campaign we see those other names they re, except for desantis haven t been able to gain th traction like donald trump, is probably not running we also know that trump this will long outlast donal trump. desantis appears to be at th head of that, whatever that is worth. he s always been the guy at the surge in the poll forehand, doesn t really scare me, because we ve known that h has the supporters that ar rapid enough forehand, tha believe in those aimless cause he represents. he could win a primary
committee. generally speaking, ou intelligence community wil never use journalists as intelligence officers, agents, collectors, whatever, fo precisely this reason. journalist need to be able t do what they do, and that difficult and safe country sometimes. let s dispense with the fact there. is this the surprise, force is not a surprise a country that would deliberately target speeders full of people, that would aim their weaponry at, that woul move children, you know, i ways that are this is not one but surprising hopefully lebron of understand that this is a downward spiral that does, not in the, and com to russia s advantage. hopefully the secretary of state but hopefully the secretar status doing exactly what we would want to be doing right now, which is reading the toothbrush, and saying acros the red lines, when you better think about that yeah, okay. let me ask you your reaction t the indictment of donald trump as it faces the agreement on