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sources familiar with the matter tell nbc news donald trump faces about 30 counts of document fraud-related charges in the indictment of course we ll know more when the indictment is nsealed, and of course next week will be a big week as it s expected he will surrender to authorities early next week. that does it for us this morning, josé diaz-balart picks up the coverage right now. and good morning, it is 10:00 a.m., 7:00 a.m. pacific. i m josé diaz-balart, and we begin this friday in uncharted territory, a former u.s. president indicted moments ago we learned from two sources familiar with the matter that there are about 30 counts of document fraud-related charges in the indictment. the case, of course, involves a hush money payment made to adult film actress stormy daniels who said she had an affair with trump, when he denied. we expect donald trump to surrender to the manhattan d.a. s office to be arraigned next week. he ll have his fingerprints taken and will ....
What s happening here. republicans are doing the performative thing they have to do because donald trump requires it, that fealty piece, right that fear of their base piece, conscious, i don t know, what s right, all of that doesn t matter it s all about the performance and michael, it s not just in the house of representatives i mean, a strong ally of trump senator lindsey graham gave this plea to his supporters last night on fox take a listen to that. you need to help this man, donald j. trump. they re trying to drain him dry. he s spent more money on lawyers than most people spend on campaigns. they re trying to bleed him dry. do donaldjtrump.com, go tonight, give the president some money to fight this [ bleep ]. also, trump is already trying to fund-raise off of this news sending out an email blast selling an i stand with trump shirt. ....
That back but i ve interviewed so many people who don t like this one woman sticks in my head, i don t like the fact that the taxi drivers now are all brown people and they are all people from northern africa. it is columbus, ohio, what are they doing it s not going to change. no matter what happens in congress, that fact is probably not going to change. but people really think it s going to change. i know people hate getting into the weeds of process here. . but this is a screwy process. we didn t have a base piece of legislation that you had hearings on and you have amendments and you try and find out what votes you can forge. complicated combinations of policies and we re going to vote on this, this and this. that s the problem, donald trump is anti process. he session here s my three or four things, go and figure it ....
Not a lot of enthusiasm for in the democratic party. she s popular a lot because of her personality, kind of like chris christie. people may disagree with some things she s for, but they like her personally. and if mcauliffe loses, it would be really bad for hillary, but if he squeaks through, they ll say, it s another victory for the clintons, let s move on. let s ask you about the base piece. because in the end, whatever these big factors this money are, it will come down on an off year election to go-tv, to getting that vote out. who s better at that these days? the democrats or the republican party? it will be by state, right? in virginia, there s a lot of new latino and asian american voters. and this will be a chance to take a stand. that segment of the base may be really mobilized in this particular moment. the thing that really struck me is you have two states in which christie is going to get elected in a state in which the majority of voters don t agree with his policies, ....
Tonight for gun control advocates if this reporting is true that they will have background checks in the base bill. i m still making the push, because they have to vote for the bill even if it s in the bill. let me ask you about the reporting here. does this mean that the senate majority leader harry reid from nevada does believe he can get 60 votes for a bill which includes tougher, broader background check program? reporter: that s exactly what it means, the whole idea was to put some base piece of legislation on the floor that could pass. they wouldn t put a provision into the bill if they thought it could endanger the entire bill. that was the logic behind making the bill via amendment. they didn t want to endanger the whole bill, but they wanted to show me you have 60 votes. by attaches it, he does believe he has 60 votes to pass the senate. but this is all a sideshow, because if john boehner doesn t decide to pick this up in the house, then for naught. well, it s not for fo ....