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
authorities if he is indicted. we have full team coverage starting with my colleague msnbc anchor katie phang and katie, this is incredibl news to wake up to you you are the lawyer here. talk about what this means in terms of what we can ge essentially see from the mante eight ex week? thanks, jonathan. i think what s important t consider is that this is a truth social posed by donald trump. yes, it is breaking news because it is the former president of the united states but we haven t had a situation on our history with ou president of the united states is been indicted but he has indicated that he anticipates that he will b arrested on tuesday of nex week what s important, jonathan about that post is that we kno that donald trump likes to use truth socialism mouthpiece o sorts. he likes to use it as a no very pleasant playground to be able to put things out there that s not necessarily true. now, he s indicating in that post that is coming from leaks from the da office so
politicsnation tonight s lead, and territory. right now, america is bracin for what could be historically unprecedented event. the possible crimina indictment of a former president. earlier today, former presiden donald trump put out a serie post on his truth social media platform, referencing report that he could soon fac criminal indictment in new yor as early as next week. trump claims that leak indicate he will be arrested o tuesday. but he did not say whether h has actually been informed o any charges or what thos charges would be a spokesman for the manhatta da s office has declined t comment. trump also called for protest, and d.c. news reported frida line forsman agencies includin the nypd, fbi and the secret service. they are already this costin security plans, should charges come down. we will be talking about all o it ahead with our guest, including former trump attorney, michael cohen who testifie before the grand jury this ver week and later, the attorney genera
police, watching sirens going off like tornado warnings parade . [inaudible] tucker: it is heartbreaking . the has been abysmal bird the epa administrator finally showe up in ohio today, that was only because of the public outcry an mounting political fallout. today, there was yet another derailment of the train carryin hazardous materials this time just outside of detroit. is it just me or does it seem like there have been a lot of trained real men slightly? are we supposed to believe this as part of the new normal? of course this is not normal, i is totally unacceptable. until we at fox in a handful of other journalist mandated answers, the biden team seem to be fairly unfazed by all of this . when they do speak out under political pressure, they have zero credibility. they have left behind such a trail of lies on all subjects, that i wasn t surprised when gallup found that americans now think the government is the biggest problem facing the united states. the youth pal
reporter in america understood, it was that donald trump hated hispanics. the devil hates holy water. some believed trump was planning a national ban on picante sauce. that s how deep and implacable his hatred was. and yet, according to what journalists refer to as the data, actual hispanics seem to like donald trump. cognitivitive dis-e dissonance e term that describes what happened next. how could the no show something that couldn t be happening? so the miami herald looked intoa it and their conclusion was fairly straightforward. hispanic voters in floridae were harol mentally ill and also evil. as one miami herald columnist cn put it, quote, donald trump s cuban-american followers suffer from cuban supremo fol ussin sur syndrome. it s an old nationalem ailment d the soul. so that was a diagnosis,se something called cuban supremacy syndrome, a seriouried but previously unknown medical condition like adhd or long covid. . someone had better call a doctor. this could be f