you from los angeles and welcome everyone to alex wit reports. developing this, our new reaction today and a growing partisan divide after former president donald trump claim without evidence that th manhattan district attorney is planning to arrest on tuesday. the da s office declined t comment on those claims, which stem from an investigation int a hush money payment to stormy daniels. but nbc news has obtained an email sent by da alvin bragg telling staff they will not be intimidated. if indicted, donald trump woul be the first former u.s. president to face criminal charges, and early today democratic lot makers ar stressing that significance. no one is above the law that is a defining principle o the republic, and has been the case for 247 years it i outrageous there is no thing to low the sky cannot reach every time yo think he s reached, it he goes even further also that he is ver typical of the forme president. he attacks the person who is leading this investigat
country. do you have a sense of how people are gonna react t charges being brought agains the former president for the stormy daniels issues if i happens? i think one thing we learne during the impeachment is that it can be trouble trouble sometimes if you r trying to take on donald trump in the narrative is to convoluted we saw that in the first official in ukraine. the stormi daniels case, it is certainly because on one level it s just hush money he paid money through hi company and lied about it an that is relatively easy to explain. on the other hand, i feel like it s going to be sort of a tough sell i know that the prosecutors from new york are now to think abou this it s another job for politicians trying to spin this, they have to think through how will peopl understand this messaging. republican senate relatively easy political persecution, democrats are going to - say the rule of law matters. it s gonna come down to is d
new york are preparing for the possibility of trump s indictment and arrest, as soon as the coming week if the former president wer to be indicted, we d be goin through the front doors of the courthouse here and lowe manhattan. second likely to the distric attorney s office with media and persons crowding in on bot sides the manhattan da case centers on whether tha candidate trump directed his attorney michael cohen to pa off adult film star stormy daniels, who claimed they ha an affair decade prior trump allies arguing that a ne york city indictment would onl help catapult him back to th white house so, alex, w remain in a holding patter when it comes to the da investigation itself politically, you already see the work that donald trump has vowed in consolidating republican support you heard there from governo sununu, potentially runnin against donald trump for the presidential nominee in 2024 from the trump campaign perspective,, here they want
law enforcement and doesn respect rule of law doesn respect peaceful protests in our system he respects only raw power what s in his own self interest a call for violence to do so and there is no dog whistl here he is just calling for violence, in for people to get in a lo of trouble it s, wrong and it should be able to come together as a nation republican an democratic alike and, say it s wrong an we re getting on with. it speaker, mccarthy as you know called trump s arrest i that righteous abuse of powe he also said he is directing relevant committees trul investigate federal funds bein used to support our democracy. now, let s take a list of hous minority leader hakeem jeffrie told me in the last hour it is not clear to me wha committee the speaker may be referring to perhaps the so-calle weaponization committee. which is really more appropriately named. and the committee to protect
if trump is charged, how do yo think this impacts his chances of taking back the white house in 2024 and those comments calling for protests that he put out there. could that cause him some lega headaches? yeah, alex, we ve already seen some of his lawyers try t whip up some of fearmongerin or at least perhaps what the think might deter authoritie from ultimately pursuing these charges or trying to make sort of the public case to the grand jury to vote against a indictment and they clearly believe or at least are trying to convince people to believe that if this comes down, this is only going to bolster the forme presidents case for presiden and whip up his support. that, i m not sure is supporte by some of the polling tha we ve recently seen which show trump losing his grip on wha has traditionally been his bas and the republican party wri