Alvin bragg, attack the system made all of these claims, as you all been making the poin of, before we even knew th details of the indictment. mcconnell has been silent. this means, we don t know what it means it could mean that he believes that you have to leave space for the rule of law and th process to work itself through which, by the way, has been th long tradition for democrats and republicans for decades. so that may be where he is we won t know until he say something about it but i agree, i think it is significant. having watched mitc mcconnell all these years in washington, mitch mcconnel only speaks when it is o benefit to his caucus and benefit to him and donald trump, many times when he was president, whe everybody jumped up to defen him on ex issue and then, tw days later, the truth comes out. mcconnell i think has said listen, i will wait till tuesday. but jen, this is katy i think the thing i am struggling with about th reticence of mitch mcconnell t
The indictment of donald trump by the manhattan distric attorney this case isn t the only legal peril for the former president the hush money probe is one of four active criminal investigations into trump. there are two separate probes. being overseen by the specia counsel. the mar-a-lago documents cas and january six. plus, there s the investigatio into trump s actions i georgia. where he went looking for more votes after he lost the 2020 election i spoke yesterday with the retired federal judge, michael luna he s a historic figure himself he famously gave mike pence th public leave ill-advised tha he needed, that he did not hav the authority to overturn th results of the election. during the certification process in the senate on january the 6th. here s what judge lunatic told ali about those investigations the indictment we ll do, is
Going to bring katie in in a second, to explain to everyone the legalese of this, bu basically if this is going t be a felony, in needs to have component linked to election fraud, or something at tha federal level. so the question i was asking him prior to that, when he was giving that answer, was abou whether that was a holdup in him moving indictment forward, because there were so much conflicting, this is one of th questions, when he left at the end of 2021, there was a book, written by marc pomerantz that he referenced in our interview and this suggested that he recommended an indictment. he recommended that moving forward. allen brags sat on tha indictment so i did ask him about that, but i wanted to know what wa the holdup, if you didn t move forward for an indictment, which we know you didn t, what was the holdup of doing that so i asked him about tha secondary piece that would b required to make it a felony but katie can explain it further to us, and provide a little more legal
Coverage of former jump indictment i m ali velshi with simone sanders councils, katie phang, and the reverend al sharpton it s hard to believe tha almost exactly a year ago th da alvin bragg s investigation into donald trump appeared t fizzle doubt bragg had decided that the time, not to indict th former president he faced a lot of backlash as result but then bragged s staff wen back to the drawing board. pouring over stacks of evidence collected by his predecessor cyrus vance. by the, stubborn brad decide to revive the investigatio into trump s hush mone payments to the adult film star, stormy daniels and the rest i history. joining us, now is david road executive editor of new for new yorker.com and an msnbc contributor the author of indeed, the fbi, the cia, and the truth about americas deep state. david, great to see you. cy vance was talking to je psaki today, he was saying tha back when he was investigating
On friday that and saying we are all going up to new york o friday, be there it is dangerous an irresponsible. this is supposed to be the party of law in order. not the party of chaos it is interesting he is not presenting at th moment legal response to a legal situation. tim, good to see what, a always thank you for joining us coming up, with the former manhattan district attorney cy vance said today about why h didn t bring this indictment against donald trump when he was in charge. you will be right back