tonight on the reidout i was asked by the u.s. attorney s office in the southern district to stand down on our investigation, which had commenced involving the trump organization and i was somewhat surprised after mr. cohen pleaded guilty that the federal government did not proceed on the areas in which it asked me to stand down. former manhattan d.a. cy vance revealed why it has taken so long to get to this point just hours from the fingerprinting of the first criminally indicted former president. and as we have been seeing all day, trump s strategy is to turn this humiliating event in his life into a media spectacle. omarosa, who knows a thing or two about trump and spectacle, joins me tonight to discuss. and that is where we begin tonight, on the eve of a legal reckoning for donald trump in new york city. trump made an ignominious return to his former hometown today ahead of his history making day in court tomorrow. as the first american president ever charged
. thank you so much for joining us to night. and now we report on the eve of the arraignment of a former president. tomorrow marks the first court hearing in this case, new york versus donald trump, defendant this is the legal process which compelled trum topp to come to w york today from florida because he had to. the only alternative would have been resisting arrest and making the nypd come get him which they re capable of doing for any defendant. tomorrow trump goes downtown and like any citizen or any criminal defendant, he ll surrender, temporarily, to the custody of the lawful authorities there we know a bit about that process. the fingerprinting, booking, and like anyone, afforded rights and given an opportunity to enter a plea authorities ramped up security including thousands of members of nypd that are on a stand ready order. but lately donald trump has been trying to promote and fundraise off the charges and it s worth recalling tonight as we know more than we us
Minister of hungary, who tweeted support, keep on fighting, mr. president, we are with you donald trump can count on viktor orban, as well as the american viktor orban in florida. i want to go to you, joyce we finally did get an answer to the question we kind of didn t know the answer to this is when cy vance said on meet the press, the reason there was no prosecution of trump on the state charges that he s now potentially fashing, because again, we haven t seen this indictment, is he was asked not to by the doj. and that they were asked to put on hold. let me play it one more time this is cy vance talking about what barr asked him to do. we learned from the southern district of new york that they asked us to stand down and by stand down, i mean they were communicating that they had this ongoing investigation and they wished that we put our efforts on hold while they completed their investigation. and so for the course of probably more than a year and a
Do it in the first place i don t think michael cohen on his own would just go out and grab $130,000 to pay a porn star, unless he was directed to do so by, i don t know, donald trump. this is the reality for a lot of these republicans right now. but of course, we don t live in that reality we live they live on earth 2, we re on earth 1, where we have the counsel and guidance of individuals like joyce vance who keep us focused on the rule of law and the fact patterns, and then you have what the republicans are doing, which is trying to distort all of that. we want to do the show, we re going to go out and do the dog and pony for trump, and muddle the waters as much as possible right the clown show will continue with marjorie greene, who you know, somehow found herself on 60 minutes is now coming to whip up the circus act in new york city. she s going to find she might not like new york. new yorkers aren t really here for that kind of nonsense. don t try that, that mess
Having seen it he has to say, his people have to say things like that to buck him up, but come on. you know, joy, before i give you a serious answer to that serious question, i want to note that i think in the previous segment, you channeled donald trump for the first time we have been doing this for seven or eight years and i think that might be the first time you have channeled donald trump live you saying a christmas carol to me once off camera, that was like five years ago, but i don t remember you ever doing donald trump. you should make a note, a chapter has been opened that we can t look back. let me preview my reality show in my own time and space, tim. my variety show is coming up soon there will be song and dance you know, omarosa got it, some of this, and it s part of my response to your question, which is donald trump has an incredibly cinematic sense of himself. he thinks of himself constantly as the star, the director, the producer, and the script writer of his own