politician, who somehow made i into the white house was zer political experience only to b disgraced as the first president to be impeached twic while in office, he s now th first current or forme president of the united states to be criminally indicted in history. nbc news has learned that hi indictment includes about 30 charges related to documen fraud. those are classified a misdemeanors the associated press i reporting that according to it sources, trump is also facin at least one felony charge seven from the manhattan district attorney alvin bragg investigation of the forme presidents role in the hus money payment made to th former adult film star storm daniels, with whom he allegedl had an affair. donald trump denies a resume affair and her new interview with the london-based times radio tha aired yesterday. daniel said she s not afraid she even hopes to be called to testify against trump. trump s indictment is expected to remain sealed unti tuesday afternoon when h
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
consortium of news organizations. ukraine s president zelenskyy is on the verge of disaster with ukrainian and russian forces saying the other is about to stage a nuclear incident at zaporizhzhia with russia telling its operators today not to report to work. and we ll look at the surprising senate race in pennsylvania. one of a handful of match-ups, key match-ups where democrat candidates are beating expectations in recent polls and republican leaders suggesting it s donald trump s fault for backing unqualified contenders. i think there s there s probably a greater likelihood that the house flips than the senate. the senate races are just different. they re statewide. candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome. we begin with nbc justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian, and david loftman, chief of counterintelligence at the justice department s national security department. many legal experts were quite surprised by the judge s ruling and that tru
They re not in remainder districts. so the reaction, while still adhering to trump, is in uniso probably because it s been rai already, and in the books for while. michael let me ask you, i m worried about something else on one hand the motivation for most of these republicans mayb don t cross donald trump right now, he gets convicted and goes to jail, you can cost him dead maybe but i m more worried about the fact that this is reminiscen of the days before the election, or the months before the election when donald trump would warn people that the election was gonna be corrupted, so it ma not have to accept the results of it. obviously you can t not accept the results if it s a guilty verdict, but his followers cannot accept it it s true and there is a delegitimizatio of the process that is one o the fruits of the trum administration one of the fruits of thi looking at american politics a sort of a joke that will come in, it will tak it down. calling it a swamp from th
Now, will that change if there is one indictment turns into two or three as tim was talkin about with these other thing hanging over his head? possibly but in the short term, i think we re going to see the republican party vying towards trump. it s a little reminiscen perhaps, in very different cases here, but a little reminiscent of jimmy carter an the iran hostage deal. ted kennedy was running against, him the democrats all went jimmy carter in the primary in part because they were rallyin around the flag, rallyin around the president again, very different cases, but a similar effect potentially. steph, what i find so interesting about what joh just said is that there are, given everything that is happening, the facts are out there is no amount of thes right-wing media outlets are not putting the facts out, there but they re not hard t find if you look under a stone or technically local news. a lot of americans are no watching they re living their lives putting food on the table,