authorities if he is indicted. we have full team coverage starting with my colleague msnbc anchor katie phang and katie, this is incredibl news to wake up to you you are the lawyer here. talk about what this means in terms of what we can ge essentially see from the mante eight ex week? thanks, jonathan. i think what s important t consider is that this is a truth social posed by donald trump. yes, it is breaking news because it is the former president of the united states but we haven t had a situation on our history with ou president of the united states is been indicted but he has indicated that he anticipates that he will b arrested on tuesday of nex week what s important, jonathan about that post is that we kno that donald trump likes to use truth socialism mouthpiece o sorts. he likes to use it as a no very pleasant playground to be able to put things out there that s not necessarily true. now, he s indicating in that post that is coming from leaks from the da office so
davis, michael cohen s attorney, we will speak to in just a few moments, confirmed to axio that his client provided manhattan prosecutors with documentation about a trum hush money payments made to second woman who claims to hav had a affair with them that suggests the case b district attorney alvin brag could actually be broader than the stormy daniels payment also breaking pressed about why trump was in not charged earlier, he told msnbc today that he was aske to stand down by his the bosses we are looking at these so-called hush money payment and then we learned from the southern district of new yor that they asked us to stan down and i stand down i mean they were communicating that they had this ongoing investigation in the west that we put ou efforts on hold while they completed their investigation. and i felt that it was appropriate for me to press th pause button so for the course of more than a year and a half now, that is what we did. i was surprised, after micha
remains under seal but according to two sources familiar with the matter, trum is facing around 30 charges as a related to documents rob security in and around the men hat and court house who is bee beefed ever since trump bega making intimidating post o truth social directed at the manhattan district attorney office for weeks now, the twice impeached ex president has bee vigorously attacking alvin bragg online also attacking virtually the entire american justice system as the grand jury an prosecutors in manhattan get closer to indicting him. and in his first official 2024 campaign rally in waco, texas, last saturday night. his supporters held up posters that said witch hunt as he delivered a speech tha contains many baseless accusations that the prosecutors currentl investigating him ar politically motivated to tak him down given though he has been s previously occupied with the idea of being indicted, th news on thursday coming that h was actually going to be indicted sti
got to appoint their own judge. america s education prices. as kid goes back to school the ideological war over the uncomfortable aspects of american history and the book banning all while the u.s. faces a massive teacher shortage. good evening, everyone, as you begin the readout today, one day after donald trump got on a stage and called vicious monsters and just how effective it is when a corrupt president is allowed to put so many judges on the bench. that s because a federal judge who trump picked today did him a huge favor to put it in trumpian terms, on an investigation that could not be more critical to our national security. u.s. district judge aileen cannon released her ruling granting the request by trump s legal team to request a legal master, look for any privileged material. while that process unfolds, the judge is blocking the justice department from continuing its investigation into trump s theft and grossly negligent mishandling of classified documents. now no
michael cohen pleaded guilty he was somewhat surprised that the federal government did not proceed on the areas in whic it had asked him to stand down what is your reaction to tha revelation what do you make of the. first of all, the souther district could not prosecute a sitting president under th justice department s policy. but they did some very strange things that i believe an inspector general of the justice department shoul consider-y looking into. for instance, of the united states, i thin the simpson would be that mr trump directed him to do this, or know he was doing it, calle jeffrey berman and asked for a reversal of the michael cohen guilty plea. there were other things i coul mention that are quite problematical us to the conduc of the southern district including abusing mr. cohen on a friday afternoon, telling hi lawyer that if he doesn t plea guilty to all of these counts, including not even having chance to look at the ta issues, by monday morning, fro