good morning, it saturday apri 1st. i am ali velshi, this week marked another inflection poin from the state of th democracy. donald, trump the rookie politician who somehow made it into the white house with zero political experience, only t be disgraced as the firs president to be impeached twic while in office. it is now the first current or former president to be criminally indicted in u.s history. nbc news has learned that hi indictment includes about 30 charges related to documen fraud, that s classified a misdemeanors and the associated press i reporting that according to it sources, trump is also facin at least one felony charge stemming from the manhatta district attorney, alvin bragg s investigation of the former presidents role in th hush money payments made to th former adult film actress, stormy daniels with whom he allegedly had a affair, donald trump denie that there wasn t a fair and any interview with the london-based times radio tha aired yesterday, daniel sa
most prosecuting offices don t collect that information because they don t want to know the reality is is that the trump supporters who are sayin that they have two different justice systems in this countr are exactly right. but it s rich white men like donald trump to get all of the advantages, if you are a poor, person black or brown person who are subject to all of th investigations that trump ha been subject to, they would ve been charged a long time ago kevin mccarthy said tha congress is going to investigate alvin bragg. i m actually surprised tha alvin bragg gave them th dignity of her response but he did right back and say you don t actually have an authority over me. congress has no jurisdictio over this criminal case. did the eighth office told the congressman, their job is to pass laws. a criminal investigation o trump by new york state ha nothing to do with that. in, fact the da s office i required by federal and stat law to be independent of
on january six and shame on us if we don t take it seriously. and don t prepare for it right, we have actually see this before so we want to make sure that having known how thi can unfold, we take al precautions that it does not involve this way thanks to both of, you great t see what joe and freeman is professor of history and american studies at yale university, the author of book about political violence. they feel the, blood violenc and congress and the road to the civil war. jennifer reuben is an opinio writer with the washington pos and an author of resistance, how women save democracy from donald trump, still ahead former vice president mike pence said this week no man is above the law including former president but he also maintain that the trump indictment is quote the criminalization of politics straight ahead, i talk to hi former senior adviser olivia troye about pence s thinking and political calculations a he continues to mull a 202 white house run. another hour of velsh
and that is so trump and his allies are mad about when it s for people, black an brown people who targets o no-knock warrants an prosecutions for misdemeanors. they love that but who can forget president trump telling those cops, when you arres suspects, don t treat them too nicely it s okay if they bang their heads, and they are getting in the squad car. now that it s trump whose head might get banged, thes republicans have suddenl developed a critique of th criminal legal system. let s talk a little bit about the danger and the threa to the prosecutors, that was always going to be the case an such a political case except that donald trump has gone out of his way and very much almos every other republican respons that we looked at remembers of congress go out of their way t talk about the left-wing radicalized, socialist, alvi bragg. now donald trump has also in the recent past called him a animal, and posted the truth social, re-posted a picture of