testify in an investigation into a hush money scheme involving stormy daniels. that s believed to be a precursor to an indictment. potential defendants are required to be notified and invited to appear before a grand jury weigh anything charges. it charged, trump would become the first former president to be indicted. but would it slow his current presidential quest? i say not a chance, at least not based opt this case alone. any charges here would stem from the $130,000 in payments made to daniels during the 2016 campaign. apparently she had been ready to share her story with the national inquirer. but the tabloid s publisher was a trump friend who instead h helped broker a deal with the lawyer. i long thought it was the weakness of the trump investigations. first the events of january 6th. the mishandling of documents, the election interference including the so-called perfect phone call to secretary of state and fourth, this, the stormy daniels hush money. merrick garland a
stormy daniels that s believed to be a precursor to an indictment. they re required by law to be notified and invited to appear before a grand jury. if charged, trump would be the first former president to be indicted, but would it slow his current presidential quest? i say not a chance, at least not based on this case alone. any charges here would stem from the $130,000 in payments made to daniels during the 2016 campaign. apparently she had been ready to share her story of an affair with trump, but the publisher was a trump friend, who instead helped broker a deal with michael cohen, in which she was paid for silence. i ve thought it was the weakest of the trump investigations which generally fall into four buckets. first, the events of january 6th. second, the mishandling of government documents. third, the fulton county da investigation, including the phone call to brad raffensperger. fourth, this, the stormy daniels hush money. merrick garland appointed jack smith to loo
afternoon to you i m yasmin vossoughian we got extreme weather coast t coast. hard hit california taking i on the chin again. with millions at flood risk. we are on the ground there the biggest bank collapse sinc the 2008 recession sake shakin up silicon valley. and new reporting on wha appears to be the and stage of new york s crimina investigation of the forme president. the da s invitation for donald trump to testify it is highly unlikely that h will show up, but his former fixer is going to be there o monday i have to applaud distric attorney brad for giving donal the opportunity to come to tel the story. now knowing donald as well as do, i understand that he doesn t tell the truth it s one thing to turn aroun and to lie on your untruth social, it s another thing t turn around and lie before the grand jury i don t suspect that he is going to be coming all this is happening a trump s nemesis ron desantis hits i while continuing to tes the presidential waters an taking
alvin bragg, he has stuffed the da s office with the department of injustice people including one top doj operative from dc that is running horse face witch hunt. some are questioning the timing of trump s possible arrest, mike pence defended former boss today saying the prosecution feels politically motivated, watch. at a time when there s a crime awe in new york city, the fact that the manhattan da thinks that indicting president trump is his top priority, i think, is just tells you everything that you need to know about the radical left in the country. feels like a politically charged prosecution here. very interesting. so i want to go to you first on this guy because we had little bit of discussion earlier today. now you have mike pence coming out in somewhat of a defense of donald trump, we know how donald trump feels about all of this. but i m wondering are republicans going to come together and circle the wagon an donald trump around this or his potential other 2
good day, i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. could we be on the verge of the first ever criminal indictment of a current or former president? the signals coming out of the manhattan d.a. s office say yes, but how strong is their case? plus, the february job numbers blew by expectations adding over 100,000 more jobs than economists had forecast. will that help the markets? and the bad week on a good note. and the fda s brand new guidance designed to give women a better chance of detecting breast cancer earlier. but, at this hour, we are waiting for a decision by donald trump, will he make the unorthodox move of agreeing to testify before a grand jury investigating potential charges against him? the simple fact that manhattan district attorney alvin bragg invited him to testify is being seen by legal experts as a sign his investigation into hush money payments made to stormy daniels may be wrapping up, and that an indictment could come soon. i