the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts right now manhattan grand jury voted t indict john j trump on thursda for his role in paying hus money to a porn star today is the first day of the rest of don trump s life this is a monumental, historic importance. before tonight, president in this country were - now you are seeing citize trump being treated the same way that anyone else would regardless of the active o former president he s got to be photographed fingerprinted, he s got to appear before a. judge i believe that donald right now is petrified this is one of his biggest fears. tonight he is calling the indictment, quote, political persecution. the first thing the lawye tells you when you are indicte for somebody or charged with something s shutout. he does not have a good defense, his defense will be a reliance on politics, it wil only get uglier from thi moment on. get ready, stop on your legal seatbelt, we are going forward as a country that is goi
midnight on the east coast i am stephanie ruhle and we ar continuing our breaking news coverage of the indictment o former president donald trump. the grand jury in manhatta indicted him earlier today making trump the first forme president to ever face crimina charges in our nation history. those jurors have been hearing evidence of hush money payments, made to adult film star stormy daniels during the 201 presidential campaign. trump s current lawyers issued a statement saying he did no commit any crime and they plan to vigorously fight this political prosecution. one trump attorney tells nbc trump is expected to b arraigned on tuesday in ne york let s bring in our panel o experts to break it all down simone sanders townsend, msnbc host and former chie spokesperson for kamala harris harry lippman, former u.s. attorney and deputy assistan journey jonathan allen, senior analyst reporter for nbc news. and tim o brien, bloomberg opinion senior columnist and the man who wrote
of you from msnbc worl headquarters here in new york, welcome to a special sunda morning edition of ale reports. developing for you this hour new reaction this morning as donald trump prepares to becom the first former president t appear in court as a crimina defendant. it will happen on tuesday. a new poll taken by th indictment finds that 45% of americans surveyed thinks that trump did falsified business records to conceal hush mone payments and in that same poll, 52% say that trump should not be allowed to serve as presiden again as he is convicted of crime. trump s former lawyer an potential star witness, michae cohen, gave new reaction t msnbc stressing accountability is coming. he is furious right now because donald is not somebody who does not like to tak accountability and alvin bragg dropped 2000-pound anvil o accountability right onto hi lap. so it is the first time in his life that he is going to b held accountable for his own dirty deeds. meanwhile, trump s fi
thanks so much for joining us tonight, i ll be back tomorrow night with republican congressman adam kinzinger. he is on the january 6th select committee. this will be his first interview following tomorrow s interview. that will be the last one. that is tomorow night at 9:00 eastern, until then you can follow me on facebook, instagram, and twitter tik tok at jake tapper. our coverage continues now with laura coates. laura coates, did you see, i know you are a big fan, did you see the interview with anna delvey aka anna? i did, i look forward to anything that is reality tv based. i can think of someone having a disguise. i love the inventing anna, i love the interview because most people can t speak to her, even the shows and series that people have, there are drawings of her. there are now, this is actually in the thick of things. it was a great interview. thank you so much, i don t know if you picked up, i m not really sure i m buying what she is selling. we will see
we got an answer about the mob that day looking for individual members of congress, hunting down individual lawmakers they wanted to target. the answers we got today were the worst possible answers. we have been looking at this. we ve been asking questions about this for a long time, since right after the attack, including multiple segments here on this show talking about it. now, as of today, the whole country looks like we finally know. it started, for us, we first got word of this worst-possible scenario, as i say, right after the january 6th attack. it was a week after january 6th, 2021. congresswoman mikie sherrill, who was a navy veteran, former federal prosecutor, she made a just hair-curling public allegation about other members of congress, republican members of congress. it was very, very worrying, again, one week after january 6th. not only do i intend to see that the president is removed and never runs for office again and doesn t have access to classified ma