noticeably been trying to find a defense in the latter case, in the times they ve offered contradictory excuses to explain why it was the trump illegally retained government records, and seemingly obstructed federal authorities from retrieving this record for many months. if convicted in that case alone, it could produce a years-long prison sentence, and that is just one example of the legal peril the former president faces right now. and the classified documents investigation is in its early days. according to an abc news report this week, the special counsel s team recently informed a trump organization employee but they are a target in their investigation, which means that more indictments could be camille and the documents case. while trump cannot simply wish that away, there is one thing he can do to possibly evade accountability and even shut down the cases against him. all he has to do is become president again. and a new legal filing from trump s team this week signal
to the breaking news tonight. now, former president donald j. trump has been indicted by a criminal court in new york city . he will be arraigned ink that wl manhattan at some point next week. we are told will likelyke new be tuesday. fake news. cncnn is reporting that he coull face over 30 charges. in a statement, trump is saying, quote, political persecution and election interference at the highesution ant level in hit from the time i camehe down the golden escalator trump tower, and even before i wasfore sworn in as your president of pt the u.s., the radical left t democrats, the enemy of the hard working men and women of this country. they have been engaged in a a witch to destroy the makey th america great again movement. now, you remember it just like i do. russia, russia, russiae , the muehler hoke s, ukraine, ukraine, ukraine, impeachment, hoke s one impeachment hoke s to the illegal and unconstitutional mar-a-lago rage. and now this. he s right after years ofn partis
far-fetched charges surrounding a legal nondisclosure agreement signed six years ago. according to the media mob, we re watching the crime of the century. today it was o.j. simpson and the white bronco. it was john gotti being brought to justice. nobody is above the law. less than 24 hours, donald trump will be the first former president in history to be charged with a crime but for what? allegations of a mislabelled document? a $130,000 nondisclosure agreement? a case that relies almost in total on the testimony from a convicted admitted liar? a felon by the name of michael cohen? a case that has never been tried before using a new legal theory that was never applied to anyone else? and a cause that looks to be well-past the statute of limitations. the charges are so weak, the bob mueller, the prior manhattan district attorney declined to bring a case. former congressman that voted to impeach donald trump, this is what he tweeted. we re going to indict a former president for
zero. today we received news of our economy 0% inflation in the month of july. 0%. brian: we will have more on that later, there s never bent a better day for permit watching the time that inauguration day, january 20th, a moment the voters have been waiting for for four years, none of it had to do with joe biden and possibilities the presidency could bring to them. the best part of him taking office wasn t donald trump was leaving office. all of it was made possible because somehow voters during a pandemic had accomplished what four years of witch hunts and the full force of surveillance state could not remove a donald trump from the white house despite giving 74 million votes. almost immediately joe biden and his installed attorney general at the department of justice began targeting hundreds of trump voters who protested the election results on january 6th. the biden administration jailed people like a 69-year-old grandmother with cancer, walked into the capital. even pe
i don t know i don t want to say the election is over. the january 6th committee on how president trump did not quell violence at the capitol. president trump did not fail to act in the 187 minutes in telling the mob to go home. he chose not to act. even as secret service agents scramble to get vice president pence out of danger. if we re moving, we need to move now. and testimony that mr. trump took care to stay on the side of the mob. the president did not want to include any sort of mention of peace in that tweet. i ll talk to committee member luria about where the investigation goes next. also the economy. we re taking our own steps that we believe will be supportive in the short-term to get inflation down. i ll interview janet yellen on inflation, economic pessimism and whether we should expect a recession. joining me are yamiche alcindor, moderator of washington week. jake herman, maria kumar and stephen hayes. welcome to sunday. it s meet the pre