you from los angeles and welcome everyone to alex wit reports. developing this, our new reaction today and a growing partisan divide after former president donald trump claim without evidence that th manhattan district attorney is planning to arrest on tuesday. the da s office declined t comment on those claims, which stem from an investigation int a hush money payment to stormy daniels. but nbc news has obtained an email sent by da alvin bragg telling staff they will not be intimidated. if indicted, donald trump woul be the first former u.s. president to face criminal charges, and early today democratic lot makers ar stressing that significance. no one is above the law that is a defining principle o the republic, and has been the case for 247 years it i outrageous there is no thing to low the sky cannot reach every time yo think he s reached, it he goes even further also that he is ver typical of the forme president. he attacks the person who is leading this investigat
embassies garrett hague, mar-a-lago in west palm beac florida. garrett, welcome to you. tell me all that you hearing about trump world about donald trump saying that he is goin to be arrested on tuesday. donald trump s allies hav been preparing for thi possibility for weeks, if no months if following this case closely and as you pointed out, they don t have any more specific information than do you or i i fact, the trump campaign spokesman indicated in his cleanup message to reporters there is nbc news reporting, that made them first aware tha this indictment, if it comes could come as soon as next wee but politically speaking talking only about the politic here, the trump team and his sort of wider constellation of allies have leaned into this moment, have leaned into thi possibility, to be able to cas the former president a standing up against what the see as a liberal, weaponized justice system you are seeing it from trump allies on twitter toda primarily, making th inv
there is a democracy challenge right now within the republica party which is not everybody i m not painting a broad strok here but there are some folks who have really turned their bac on that, system and that process. and i am extremely concerned b comments like speaker mccarthy and others that this i politically. charged because it is. not this is a grand righ process and everyone has to be accountable and everyone i entitled to due process an equal protection and we have t let that system play out trump has called on protesters to take our natio back, quote. here that, does echo the english language he used in th run up to january? six are you worried when a protest potentially turnin violent like we all saw on tha fateful day? i am worried about it as you, or call members of congres travel to the house galler surrounded by that riotous mob not knowing whether when t make it. that don trump calls, on quote protests, the sum of the means that somebody doesn t respec
so, it is a difficult thing to do, but the justice system has to apply it to everybody, or i doesn t work and so i think that th prosecutors in this case, th justice department, they hav to pursue it and if the crime has bee committed, they have to file the charges, and then we hav to pursue the system as we would for anybody, and i certainly seems like there is ton of evidence here tha president trump has violated the law in the number of different areas. yeah, i definitel appreciate a political and legal perspective. let me look beyond that with you, because donald trump social media post called for protesters to take our natio back what do you think he is asking his lawyers to do, and doe that give you any concern? absolutely. it concerns me we saw what happened on januar six, and we ve seen over and over again that president trum is not opposed to fomentin violence to advance hi personal goals, and also you re talking about a mob mentality out here president trump s supporters