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♪ hi, everyone it's 4:00 in the east. we can forget about being on the verge of a generational moment in our country's history because, as we meet this afternoon, we're living it donald trump is now a once indicted, twice impeached, forever disgraced ex president and he's expected to surrender to law enforcement in new york next week. we understand it will happen tuesday. there was some misinformation, confusion this morning trump's attorney told nbc news earlier the office of the manhattan district attorney alvin bragg, who is overseeing this case, wanted trump to turn himself i...

spokesperson about the battle plan going forward and whether there is any new effort to protect palestinian civilians as the u.s. has been pushing for. also tonight, donald trump's lawyers in court and on camera. at the first hearing in the georgia election subversion case and the defense arguing if president trump is re-elected president he could not be tried until after leaving office. >> and we're following the drama up on capitol hill. now that republican george santos has been expelled from congress, santos storming out after the historic vote as he leaves his divided party wi...

Example, mr. kolenda of has? i don't know he has been lashing out at mar pomerantz, he is a private citizen now. and regardless of what we thin about the wisdom of hi publishing interna conversations in his book, mar pomerantz isn't a person tha is entitled to any protectio as a private citizen so the people he is lashing ou against is growing, symone, by the day. and i think that i increasingly dating the judg to impose some form of gag order on former presiden trump. >> hugo, quickly, you will hav the last word on this. how do you expect, or what are you hearing from the white house on this?...

Washington might be working with a state level attorney general? well, that's because of how this might intersect with the prospect of president trump pardoning people in the trump-russia investigation. according to politico.com tonight, quote, the new cooperation could potentially provide mueller with additional leverage to get manafort to cooperate in the larger investigation into trump's campaign has trump does not have pardon power over state crimes. so if the flip strategy with paul manafort is to put so much pressure on him in terms of his potential criminal liability, that he says, uncl...

Trump campaign, that pressure was presumably alleviated by his hope or expectation that president trump would pardon him and render him not touchable by the mueller investigation in terms of federal crimes. that alleviation of pressure doesn't apply to the states. a federal pardon doesn't get you out of state prosecution. if there is a potential state level prosecution, then the flip strategy got all its leverage back, no matter what the president does. joining us is the reporter who broke the story tonight for politico, josh dowsey. thank you for joining us. >> thanks for having me, rachel. >...