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. former president donald j. trump has beenrand jury investig hush money payments to adult film star stormy daniels. it is the first time in american history that a current or former president is facing criminal charges, and cnn is now learning that trump is expected to be arraigned. early next week. now the grand jury has been hearing evidence and witness testimony related to $130,000 that trump s former fixer, michael cohen, paid stormy daniels before the 2016 election. that money was paid in exchange for her silence about an alleged affair she had with trump now source telling cnn and this is really important information. we re just getting that trump was completely caught off guard that right now he s in florida at a mar-a-lago that he had been caught off guard and that he thought that this was sort of. maybe maybe over. maybe bragg had gotten cold feet, so he suddenly released a statement after this news broke, saying, quote. this is this is in part. it s a longer ....
There, and it s a solid kind of an offense because this is an offense that district attorney s bring all the time, the falsification of the way and i defer to karen on. this is the real expert, but you can commit all kinds of state crimes. in furtherance of committing a federal crime. you know, we did cases when i was with the n y p. d s intelligence bureau of covid fraud where we prosecuted them, federally. but along the way, there were numerous state crimes of falsification. yeah that we could have arrested them for separately. john dean, i do think in this moment that we re sitting here with so much that we don t know in this historic moment there. is this this this big question here, and john is giving the reporting on when the former president will will be arraigned. but in these hours these days right between now and then that is a really important and precarious moment, isn t it? it is. i hope his lawyers have advised him again to keep his lips zipped. i doubt that he will neces ....
So we can have him sit down and take him off. this just shows you how critical these patients are, how critical these people are. they need the help right now. there s not enough boats, not enough helicopters, not enough first responders obviously to get every single person as you heard. there s 300 people in this apartment complex. a lot of them need the help because they re elderly, some of them obviously have medical condition that they need to be on dry land. we were watching and listening to a katy local reporter there in houston texas as that rescue operation were playing in. of course he spotted those people on the roof. unbelievable. let s bring in our meteorologist, karen on exactly where this storm is going. karen what can you tell us ? all right, we take a look a ....
Programs. i wish the president tonight would have been honest with the american people. in order to prevent and disrupt these attacks in the future we are going to need to be able to gather more intelligence not less intelligence and as president, he has supported measures and in fact implemented measures that have weakened our intelligence gathering capability capability. we do these things we will defeat them. they will not be easy. it will take time. but we will defeat them. it starts by acknowledging to the american people that indeed we are at war. we re at war with rad camical islamic jihadists. senator, obviously the president did talk about the terrorist threat evolving. as we saw in san bernardino, there may be more incidents where terrorists are inspired but not directed. we don t know all the details yet, obviously. we ask people to write in on social media. karen on twitter wrote in a question for you. what is radicalization and how would you fight it within america? we ....
Important things last night was remember that minimum wage increase passed overwhelmingly and he had vetoed that. so you do have a dynamic he was against the minimum wage. he s been against a lot of social issues, but he did attack the republicans in terms of some of their shenanigans down here in washington. he s playing the outsider. he did work with the president. thank you very much, abbey. and thank you, karen, both you and abbey huntsman. thank you both for being here. and don t forget to wash abbey on the cycle weekdays at 3:00 eastern. and karen on disrupt with karen finney, weekends at 4:00 eastern. both are right here on msnbc. ahead, the koch brothers weren t on the ballot, but they were big losers in this election. the billionaires went up against the workers, and the billionaires lost. plus president obama takes ....