welcome to special coverage of the indictment form hasn t. frontline here tonight with my embassy colleagues, jonathan capehart, host of the saturday and sunday show. simone standard temps it house of - and katie fang house to th katie phang show and less than 24, hours th president will be flying to ne york for his arraignment his decade as teflon don comin to an. and nbc news has learned tha the indictment includes around 30 counts related to trump s alleged role in the hush money payments made to storm daniels. he would appear in court o tuesday. the campaign now says trum will give a speech a mar-a-lago the same evening. the legal team said they are not doing anything about the arraignment and instead will wait for the indictment to b unsealed we will dissect it. the team will look at every an shoe that we will be able to challenge and we will challeng it i anticipate a motion. there s no law that fits this. there is no law that fits this we re likely to get a first
Was saying, just because of fe said we re not taking this for whatever reason, it could ve been bill barr saying or t drop it discretion which i also what bragg is telling gopers i have discretion i am sovereign state i can do and make decisions what i find t be appropriate the facts are the. facts the feds may prosecute cohen who s the only ones gone to prison for this, bragg ma have said i don t want this. one i want this one and i going to exercise to - i m going to go for the gold for this particular case i want to zero in on what davis said simone. the facts are the facts. i would urge all of us everyone watching, the america people at large to understan that we don t know what we don t know and we will not know until tha indictment is unsealed o tuesday. the whole conversation has bee
Feeling or any of your delving into this, that we may see indict, parts of thi indictment, be beyond th stormy daniels case, the storm daniels affair, that this ma not be limited to just hus money? that is the big question. because, you know, there i this broader case that vance was looking at where trump, for years systematically overestimated you know, his own wealth and he would underestimate the wealth, the value of its buildings when it came t paying taxes so, it was a constant scheme o fraud. this was the conviction that bragg won in the summer. this is part of what ali talke about winning, that tax scheme conviction, where alle weisselberg and others wer getting free tuition to privat schools for the kids, free cars, and they weren t paying an taxes on it. that was i think a big boost big momentum help for brag t go forward so, yes, we could see some sor
He has nothing to do with this particular case in manhattan this is one of seven cases tha are confronting donald trump possibly, and your former boss mike pence, is going to need t be involved in one or two, the including the jack smith investigation into january 6th he has resisted, he s been subpoenaed, he sounds like he resisting again. but he wants to replace donald trump. he wants to be the nex president of the united states and he does not seem to have much love lost for the forme president, his former boss yeah, all valid points. but here s the problem my former boss, unfortunately, reduces to really call a trump he refuses to come forward and take a stand he refuses to speak honestly he s out there undermining the judicial process in terms of this case right now, with th district attorney of new yor and alvin bragg, i mean, i wan him to leak. i want him to take a stand i want him to be the person thought he was when i worked for him. but look, he should take a pag
Timeline here. some pieces we knew, som pieces we didn t know. there is the fact that the were working on it, his office was working on this case prior to, i think, earlier tha we knew they had been workin on it, that the southern district of new york, as you said simone, asked him to stan down he did stand out for about a year and a half. this is a long time, for the to be standing down. and then after michael cohen was prosecuted, of course, and went to jail, he was surprised this is what he said, when the did not move forward at th federal level with the case. that of course, was th timeline when bill barr was th attorney general so - we will take you we have some questions so that was a law that we did know previously. and even people who watch a lot of order, we are wondering why di this takes a long? this was that bad in 2006 when this affair happened, we kne