says the judge overseeing his indictment hates him. see where this one is going to lead starts right now tuesday 2 15 trump s arraignment s set, according to cnn sources, the unprecedented security that now needs to happen for this unprecedented court appearance, plus 30 news organizations come to the defense of an american journalist detained in russia. their demands to putin and a friend of that reporter will also join me this hour. and from the midwest to the south confirmed tornadoes on the ground with the governor of kentucky, saying tonight s forecast is the worst he has ever seen. welcome to the lead on this busy friday. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper, and we start in our politics lead with new developments surrounding the historic indictment against former president donald trump tuesday around 2:15 p.m. trump is expected to appear before manhattan judged to be arraigned, according to sources . the former president is facing more than 30 counts related to business
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
President who used to run a charity that got blown up by the state for essentially being a fraud unprecedented to have a former president whose company that he founded and ran got recently been convicted of multiple counts of tax fraud. it s unprecedented to have had a president who ah, who rallied a , uh, an armed, riotous mob to attack the capital unprecedented of how to president impeach twice so we should be prepared for unprecedented things to happen around donald trump. i think in many ways and indictment in this case, it was not that surprising. he is currently the subject of four very aggressive, very serious criminal investigations. this is just the first one to go this far. alright andrew mccabe. carrie cordero. thank you very much up next, the reporter who got trump on the record about the hush money payments. a stormy daniels plus the tornado emergency happening right now in parts of the midwest and the south. keep it here for our live
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
The fact you can t afford groceries or a tiny number of people is richer than anyone in human history, no. the real threat to you is white supremacy. domestic terrorists from white supremacists is the most lethal terrorist threat in the homeland. we know now we must confront and defeat political extremism, white supremacy and domestic terrorism. don t dare call them protesters. they were a riotous mob, insurrectionests, white supremacy, domestic terrorism that we must confront and we will defeat. white supremacy. the media outlets began ranting about race talkingly it can t