new york state no matter who you are. the defendant held documents in his hand we cannot and will not normalize serious misconduct for nine straight months the defendantant repeatedly made false statements he also called others to make false statements we have a history in the manhattan d.a. s office of vigorously enforcing white collar crime that s manhattan s district attorney alvin bragg defending his prosecution of donald trump. we ll take you through the historic indictment and what s next in the case in just a moment meanwhile, the former president s allies in congress are rushing to his defense house speaker kevin mccarthy posting a warning for the d. a. and also ahead, a significant win for progressives in wisconsin that will flip the majority of that state s supreme court for the first time in over a decade good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, april 5th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. donald trump, the first pre
new york state no matter who you are. the defendant held documents in his hand we cannot and will not normalize serious misconduct for nine straight months the defendantant repeatedly made false statements he also called others to make false statements we have a history in the manhattan d.a. s office of vigorously enforcing white collar crime that s manhattan s district attorney alvin bragg defending his prosecution of donald trump. we ll take you through the historic indictment and what s next in the case in just a moment meanwhile, the former president s allies in congress are rushing to his defense house speaker kevin mccarthy posting a warning for the d. a. and also ahead, a significant win for progressives in wisconsin that will flip the majority of that state s supreme
mobilize on three fronts specifically with three powerful committee chairmen leveraging them to send a letter to bragg saying they wanted to take him before congress. we ve now seen those letters bounce back and forth between legal counsel for bragg and the committee themselves sounds like the committees are going to continue pressing ahead there. of course what an escalation might look like is actually subpoenaing bragg. we re not there yet. but certainly as you see speaker mccarthy and others continuing to say that congress will investigate this, it kind of begs the question is there anywhere else to go but the subpoena, and that of course would put us in even more unprecedented territory because of the reasons you lay out, leveraging a house of congress against a state and local investigation that s actively still ongoing and based on the time line laid out yesterday will be ongoing for quite some time nevertheless, this is how we re watching house republicans leverage their majorit
trum s indictment. after yesterday s arraignment mccarthy tweeted this, alvin bragg is attempting to interfere in our democratic process. bragg s weaponization of the federal process will be held accountable by congress. nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitally. a new cnn poll shows 60% of respondents support the indictment process as you might imagine it breaks down along party lines democrats in favor and republicans again so walk us through mccarthy s thinking here. he seems to be treading along pretty dangerous territory, one branch of government attacking a state in manhattan, a local district attorney. what s he up to? look, this has been mccarthy s tactic, though, even before the indictment became official we were down in orlando, florida, now two weeks ago when trump was just predicting he would be indicted. mccarthy was very quick to