you from los angeles welcome to alex witt report, would be getting this hour o the investigation into donal trump s alleged hush money payments to film star tort stormy daniels he has been launching out on true to media today. he claims he will be arreste on tuesday clay calling th manhattan da office political. and calling for protests the manhattan da is declinin to comment but some spin campaign said th there has been no notification trump is rightly highlightin his innocence. his defenders have rallied mos notably, kevin mccarthy ca called it an outrageous abus of power by the da democrats are concerned that his social media post coul lead to violence i am just so struck b remembering back this mornin to the two impeachments that i was involved and asked unite states senator of donald trump and remembering my republica colleagues, some of my republican colleagues saying oh they believe that donal trump has learned a lesson fro these experiences. and yet, here we have to
i voted for karen bass. i voted for biden. i voted for gavin newsom b. i m sick of democrats. want a do over. we told you so. the great replacement theoryis t is not some grand right-wing conspiracy theory. i was shakin sght wingg that isp away from propaganda coming out of his mouth. kenned comy ends be if y all are on strike, who is going to write the fake news? i don t know what that question means. no one likes fake news here.s fa no one writes fake news in the washington post. ashingto the washington post walks out on bezos. plus, sarah has jesse walter has been naughty or nice this year. bi i ll a fox news alert. the president s son, hunter biden, is set to be indicted at any momendet tonight.g it we re monitoring it and we re going to update you throughout the hou willr. but first, when someone breaks a record, we usually celebrate it. y ce but the records we re breaking aren t cause for celebratiogn. a s a little while back, obama s secretary of homeland
his defenders have rallied mos notably, kevin mccarthy ca called it an outrageous abus of power by the da democrats are concerned that his social media post coul lead to violence i am just so struck b remembering back this mornin to the two impeachments that i was involved and asked unite states senator of donald trump and remembering my republica colleagues, some of my republican colleagues saying oh they believe that donal trump has learned a lesson fro these experiences. and yet, here we have today hi sending out a message which is a clear signal to hi followers. and we know how dangerous that can be well, senior officials tell nbc news that law enforcemen agencies are indee coordinating securit arrangements around manhatta courthouse house in the even of an impossible indictment as early as next week trump s personal attorney says trump will follow ignored role procedures if he has t surrender. the hush money probe of course
is controversial among the democratic caucus. so there is not much time and when the speaker says the next 48 hours are critical, she means the next 48 hours are critical to seeing if democrats can be united in the path forward. erica? that is a big, big question this morning. lauren fox, appreciate it, thank you. joining me to discuss cnn s senior political analyst ryan lizza, and co-author of politico s playbook. good morning, as we look at all of this, there isn t much time. lauren s last point was interesting, it is about can da democrats come together here. there doesn t seem to be a plan b in what we re witnessing as we talk about what we re focused on today in terms of looming deadlines. two years ago leader mcconnell said america can t default, that would be a disaster, yet now he and senate gop are trying to force the first ever default of the u.s. all must come together in the spirit of bipartisanship. lauren just said, that s unlikely in the senate, pointing
it s amazing the old man is talking. it s not surprising. we all knew what he thought. you look at the administration he was a different kind of person. he is much more old school republican. he was a realist. old line guy. so the fact that he believes this i don t think is shocking. the fact that he is doing it now is a little bit surprising given the timing. why do you think he is doing it? i think he is looking at his legacy a little bit. i also think he is trying to do things that his son, that jeb can t do. jeb can t attack his brother. that would not be a good look for him. no matt jim baker, the former president all thought it was a bad idea to go into iraq. now they are saying so. a lot of da democrats in congress thought it was a good idea. they went along with it and voted for it. what s your point? the point is it is all hind sight.