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
Watters primetime, tonight he stole money from the trump organization. The prosecutor misled this jury. It is a higher degree of a felony than trump was charged with. Michael cohen was a liar, and also a thief. A trail of broken promises leaves black people behind. It is a black man that loves this country, even if it doesnt love him back in either measure. He tells blacks that americans dont love him. [ cheering and applause ]. Why are women so angry . Listen to me, money buys happiness. [ ] it only took 19 days, but we finally have a crime in the trump trial. Michael cohen, not only a liar but a thief. Another gruesome day of crossexamination confessed to larceny, admitting he stole 60,000 from his old boss. You stole from the trump organization, correct . With cohen responding with a yes, sir. As former President Trump stared on, shaking his head. Even cnns heads were shaking. This is a bomb. This is a bomb dropped in the middle of the prosecutions case. They appear to have caught c
country. do you have a sense of how people are gonna react t charges being brought agains the former president for the stormy daniels issues if i happens? i think one thing we learne during the impeachment is that it can be trouble trouble sometimes if you r trying to take on donald trump in the narrative is to convoluted we saw that in the first official in ukraine. the stormi daniels case, it is certainly because on one level it s just hush money he paid money through hi company and lied about it an that is relatively easy to explain. on the other hand, i feel like it s going to be sort of a tough sell i know that the prosecutors from new york are now to think abou this it s another job for politicians trying to spin this, they have to think through how will peopl understand this messaging. republican senate relatively easy political persecution, democrats are going to - say the rule of law matters. it s gonna come down to is d