Welcome to Msnbc Specia Coverage of the indictment o former president , donald trump im Jonathan Capehart live fro Msnbc Headquarters in new york and i am katie phang. And we begin today with a history that will unfold befor our eyes, and just under 7 hours. Former president donald trum is set to turn himself in at 2 15 pm eastern time thi tuesday. We are learning much more about exactly how that dramati moment will take place the former president wil arrive in new york city monday evening, and on tuesday, the will be driven from trump towe to the courthouse around 1 p eastern time as of now, there are no plans to handcuff him, and n plans to place him in a holdin cell but there will b fingerprinted. Trump will then leave new york that same night, and head back to florida. So, katie, this i incredible what we are about to see and we have never seen anythin like this in all of ou history. A former president of Th United States indicted by an manhattan grand jury and we use the adag unpr
tit-for-tat. that either donald trump or hi allies offer up. let them run their presidentia primary. let him run his presidential primary going out. into the states. i do think that people want to talk about their lives and what is happening in their lives. so this is going to get old fo the republican party and for all of those candidate to continue to be mired in the trump show the american people when you talk to them they want to talk about thei children s future. and their personal economy and what is happening in their communities. and i think that offers bide away through all of this all of this mess and it s not shocking to me at all that republicans are aligning themselves with donal trump. they have had an opportunity t send him to the trash heap man times. they haven t taken it. and this time is no different. you know, brenda, i want yo
charges come to light. so he s very strategic about when he comments, and abou when he is silent. so i think his silence here is also notable but look, aside from mcconnell in the handful of republicans. some of whom voted to convic mr. trump in the secon impeachment trial. after january six. republicans are rallying to th former president side up here. you heard, from some of them going on broadcast on fox news. touting long fundraising, whic he doesn t need help with. considering his fund-raise quite a bit since th indictment came through. but i m told he s lobbied phon calls to some of his closest allies up here, that include senator lindsey graham and congressman matt gates that includes folks who ar actually planning to head to new york on tuesday. like marjorie taylor greene. to protest the forme president s indictment, wher he is a respected to b arraigned on that day. now all of these republicans are lining behind the former president. even those who are maybe not supportive of
control over it, ron sentencin yes. why? why the biden by ron desanti at this stage? we are no trump s lawyer say trump is going to turn himself in so why is desantis doing that? first of all, i think w absolutely have to call ou when we see republicans making these comments fox knows about these charge being baseless no one knows what the charge are, no one knows. nobody knows what the evidence is speaking of complete ignorance right now, we are seeing the republican party crossed the fulcrum if you will, they ar starting to demonstrate th permanency of the rock withi the republican party that they were just undermined and kneecap. they will use congress t interfere with the prosecution these are dangerous, destabilizing things part of what they are doing is the new republican party i think it is dangerous, would call it out. what you re seeing is the ra politics of ron desantis someone pointed out somethin
side of the gop and what i going on that. david, do you, speaker mccarrick earthy, very quiet but also vowing to hold righ to accountable people. why does mccarthy think that congress would ever have oversight power over a sovereign state like the manhattan district attorney? i think that can mccarthy s demonstrated that he s willing to overlook the separation o powers, the role of th congress, but more importantly i think this is very important we have to continue to frame this as republicans meddling i a prosecution. at the request of del trump, donald trump month ago asked jim jordan to interfere with the bragg prosecution, that is a fundamental part of this entire case and kevin mccarthy and others should be hel accountable for it the opportunity missed republicans is this, the messaging should be simple you can defend donald trump, you can actually say this, donald trump is presumed innocent today i believe he is innocent, believe when he has an