all, i m alex witt in fo jasmine disobedient. the former president on th move today to a florida golf club not to new york, at least no yet, that will happen closer t his tuesday arraignment on wha we now know is about 3 charges. the former president is facing criminal indictment. his legal team is publicly defined. he is a whole lot i mar-a-lago, he will face this, we will face it. we will be successful and sure president trump will not take plea on this case. the woman at the center o this case, stormy daniels, see this as a vindication. it is revealed that i was telling the truth. i didn t lie about anything. all the details came out all of these concepts ar cleared up and you know, a person in power is not exemp from the law, no matter what your job is or your bank account, you are hel accountable for the things you ve done and said justice is served. in addition to all of this, we are following breaking news of at least 11 people dead i tornado sweeping through t
year they are history making, unprecedented, consequential from criminal investigations into the former president of the united states to midterm elections that preserved our democracy, from the makeup o the supreme court and th decisions that threatened ou rights to the very rapid ris of hate speech on public discourse, we have plenty to dig into you are watching simone and yo know i have a lot to say when i reflect on the wil ride that was 2022, i keep coming back to these words historic and unprecedented democrats bumped historica trends by expanding thei senate majority and preventing a red wave in the house of representatives. and voters, they changed the representation in more way than one electing the first gen z membe of congress with maxwell frost in florida the first woman elected to congress from vermont, wit becca blunt, the first out lesbian governor s, lamar heal in massachusetts, and tina kotek in oregon. the first black governor o maryland with wes moore. th
On the witness - the trial is still far off stormy daniels is alread saying that she s prepared t take the stand i had a zoom call with th prosecutors and i told the what i did, i made it clea that i was willing to go on th stand and tell my story if the needed me. i have yet to actually b called or any of that. i fingers crossed, i do. i m not afraid, i ve nothing t hide i look forward to tellin everybody what i know. while she says that she i not afraid of trump, she doe worry about potential violence being stoked among his supporters let s bring in joyce vance former u.s. attorney and msnbc legal analyst, she s also th co-host of the sisters in la podcast. welcome joyce, good to hav your insights here how valuable of a witness to think stormy daniels is at thi point and will michael cohen b more critical to the da s case so, we are all working
Legal accountability for donal trump, for the documents january 6th, and even election lies for more on the legal issues that have dominated 2022, we have glenn kershaw, a former federal prosecutor, and msnb legal analyst. and kimberly atkins store, a columnist for the boston globe and coast of the sisters in la podcast. and greetings to you both. okay, i want to start firs reminding everyone of the four biggest criminal investigation into donald trump, as we close out the year we mentioned the mar-a-lag case, right? there s also the justice department s january 6th investigation, that is looking into whether donald trump no only incited insurrection, but also possibly committe election fraud, or fraudulentl raised fronts in the run up to january six. then you have that georgia election investigation int whether trump wrote a la trying to overturn his 202 election loss in that state. remember, that - you remember that was called also can t forget about ne york s vegetation into the tru