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midnight on the east coast i am stephanie ruhle and we ar continuing our breaking news coverage of the indictment o former president donald trump. the grand jury in manhatta indicted him earlier today making trump the first forme president to ever face crimina charges in our nation history. those jurors have been hearing evidence of hush money payments, made to adult film star stormy daniels during the 201 presidential campaign. trump s current lawyers issued a statement saying he did no commit any crime and they plan to vigorously fight this political prosecution. one trump attorney tells nbc trump is expected to b arraigned on tuesday in ne york let s bring in our panel o experts to break it all down simone sanders townsend, msnbc host and former chie spokesperson for kamala harris harry lippman, former u.s. attorney and deputy assistan journey jonathan allen, senior analyst reporter for nbc news. and tim o brien, bloomberg opinion senior columnist and the man who ....
Is it sitting in rikers island for the devoted work that he did for the trump family for years and years. but explain to our audience ho significant the split betwee donald trump and michael cohen was? michael cohen was at trump s a true ride or die for years well, i think michael cohen was a fixed fixer. he handled front and dirty wor for trump, i do not think he was involved in deals an accounting, and some of th finer points of how the trum organization moved through the tar pit that it existed in that prosecutors are going t be interested in but michael cohen has evidence i think everyone talks about whether or not his testimony i reliable, michael cohe recorded some of his ....
Today s evidence is that tha includes trump as well let s take a look at what fox news had to say tonight. the rule of law appears t be suspended tonight, not just for trump, but for anyone wh would consider voting for him. clearly, bragg has political agenda, justice is not blind in new york city and other, words show me the man and guess what, i will fin the crime. and that was the mantra of the former soviet union. you cannot then have eigh years of this. if you had eight years of this you do not get the country back this is lawfare, and the republicans have to wake up an fight fire with fire michael please don t ask me about that level of dame please don t seriously. ready that ignorance, leave tha ignorance in the ether we all know what it is, they are not talking to us. they re not talking to ....
Provide more evidence and to possibly flip in a mor substantial way against donald trump. i have to believe that allen weisselberg s evidence a testimony are going to b central to the indictment when it is unveiled, but that i just speculation on my part. simone, you have been par of presidential campaigns. i was literally jus thinking, i could not imagin donald trump is a candidate fo president right now. the first republican debate is at the end of august i was literally sitting here thinking about the fact that i could imagine, i have no spoken to rashida jones abou this today, but if either on of us got indicted today, mayb arraignment out and happened yet, we probably would not b sitting in the chair tonight i know i would not be on tv. so this creates a very interesting conundrum becaus voters are, i talked to some folks on my show this weeken ....
Arraignment will be handled, i am sure he will get to special treatment. nonetheless, this is humiliating for anyone who has to go through it and donal trump is about to go through a public humiliation i do not know what the lon term consequences of this are. i think until we see the indictment, and get a fuller and more fulsome sense of what artillery alvin bragg and th grand jury, who heard this evidence have lined up, we wil not know the full force of it. but it is obviously a momentou moment for him in his family and his legal travails are not over there are three other majo suits at play, or you know investigations and lawsuits of foot that are very threatening a quick correction, i misspoke tissue james, new york attorne general. tim, you just said that donald trump does not want to do that humiliating perp walk. do you not by this line that w have been hearing from his camp, that he wants to do this publicly, he wants the america ....