d.a. bragg: the indictment does not specify it because the law does not require it. in my remarks, i mentioned a couple of laws which i will highlight now. the first is new york state election law, which makes it a crime to conspire to promote a candidacy by unlawful means. i further indicated a number of unwelcome means, including more additional false statements and statements planned to be made to tax authorities. i also noted the federal election box cap on -- law cap on contribution limits. i am not going to go into our process on the charges that were brought. the ones that were brought are the ones that were brought in the law is the basis for those decisions. reporter: you expressed that you had some reservations about readiness. can you talk about some of the questions in your mind that needed to be answered to bring the case? d.a. bragg: i am not going to chapter and verse into the thinking. i will say we have been in office for a couple of months and the investigation in my view was n

and d.a. bragg has said this investigation is still continuing, and that's actually the investigation that the attorney general for new york state has brought a lawsuit against mr. trump and his family so that could be a criminal indictment it's now a civil fraud case, but that could be a criminal indictment >> which would carry big implications not just enterms of accountability but crimes, right? that is where it is a weightier investigation. >> they could present to a grand jury >> what if mr. weisselberg newly released from rikers, he has counsel at least what we're hearing being reported is this counsel is potentially more of a hard line counsel enterms of not playing ball with prosecutors. this counsel is paid for by the trump organization as his previous counsel was how do you read the tea leaves on where allen weisselberg may be in his utility as a future witness. >> he's clearly if he chose a valuable witness against donald trump, and he's now testified at the trial of the trump organizatio

this case by d.a. bragg has been developed recently meanwhile, outside the courtroom today -- i mention this, and we need to cover the whole thing -- here's some of what trump's lawyers were saying today. >> there must be something besides what we have been talking about for the past four, five years there wasn't there's nothing. the indictment itself is boiler plate. it doesn't allege any federal crime, any strait crime that's been violated. doesn't allege what the false statement is, and it's really disappointing. >> i'm going to do this as carefully as i can -- fact check number one, true, the written indictment does not specify what the enhancing crime is, which is why we quoted the current d.a. bragg explaining verbally what he says it is, and they can pursue this case as they see fit. that's one fact check two, false. if you think the sordid and often disturbing allegations enumerated in this statement of facts are boilerplate, then i don't know what kind of boiler or what kind of plate or what kind of

federal funds including federal funds for this trump case alvin bragg is con torting federal election law remember o fire the prior manhattan d.a. declined to prosecute charges the manhattan u.s. attorney declined to prosecute charges federal election commission declined to do anything about allegations, alvin bragg himself declined allegations got heat from left unethical prosecutors quit ran to media, so that is what alvin bragg brought in matthew colangelo political appointee former naacp attorney seven years he former object justice department person under eric holder former obama white house worked in new york ag office the guy who did against trump, trump financial trump administration served as sexting associate attorney generaled by left wing waver against christians praying outside abortion clinics i terrorizing catholic churs, crisis pregnancy centers supreme court justices in their homes. maria: you said a pattern reminds me of russia collusion lie fbi director james comey praised charges posted on twitter another good day, when the indicted ooh indictment came down wrote a good day, comey has been tweeting, another

d.a. bragg needs a second crime, what is it? >> i have no idea. we have some sharp counsels on the oversight committee. i know a lot of very intelligent lawyers that are skilled in all sorts of law. many of them don't like trump to be honest with you, but they are embarrassed by this they feel if you are getting trump it needs to be department of justice, something that the statute of limitations has not expireed and no question of what level of prosecutor should be prosecuting any case against trump. all of the boxes go unchecked with respect to this case ever amounting to anything. elizabeth: reasonable doubt reports that trumps said he paid the money to protect his marriage. that is how a jury decided not to convict former senator john edwards, who made that claim too. overkill part. dolcho34 counts related to 11 transactions. we understand falsifying business records but what is the proof of this with michael cohen saying it. >> there is no proof, john edwards got money to pay that woman from heir to energizer fortune. donald trump used his ow

why don't you think d.a. bragg why didn't he amounts stronger sort of offense, in terms of at least speed on the record saying, this book is on authorized, we do not want t publish. >> well, he wrote a letter t simon and schuster, where th publishers he had the association for prosecuting attorneys issue an ethics opinion, stating that this was improper, and i believe his general counse said, correctly, that would be considered prior restraint if you try to preven publishing a book, then yo might know lose that so he did vocally say, thi book was done without hi permission, of course mall mar pomerantz to, say i didn't nee your permission. so it is really this book ha caused a lot of problems, as dea bragg has thought that i would, and now it has. >> and now it's been effectively weaponized >> so from your point of view, how valuable is pomerantz' testimony, both in terms of th offense, in terms of prosecuting trump, and a defense of house republicans would like to presumably him out for donald trump >> well devalu

they subpoenaed mark pomerantz d.a. bragg firing back with a scathing response. slamming republicans for interfering in an ongoing criminal case. engaging in a campaign of harassment and intimidation. calling it an abuse of power none of this will deter his office from the trump case stormy daniels is speaking out she would testify against donald trump. >> it's daunting, but i look forward to it. you know what i mean i have nothing to hide i'm the only one that has been telling the truth. i think having them call me in and put me on the stand legitimatizes my story and who i am. >> if they ask you to testify, you will testify >> absolutely. >> a central witness who received those payments wants to go on the stand and go face to face with donald trump and spill all the tea she's got. next week, prosecutors are expected to turn over to trump's defense team the first discovery territories. notes of witness statements. the d.a. specifically calling out harassment and intimidation from congress. it comes after threats trump made against the judge the social media reve

d.a. bragg's office could lead them to legislation, that the research would be helpful. d.a. bragg has two things on the other side one is notions of federalism, right? this is a state actor, not a coordinate federal branch. it is unprecedented for congress to try and interfere with an ongoing state criminal investigation. and then the second part is it's an ongoing criminal investigation, and the information that they seek here would cause the district attorney's office to violate new york law with respect to grand jury secrecy new york law is even more stringent than federal law with respect to the secrecy of grand jury materials there's no way the d.a.'s office or mark pomerantz could comply without violating new york law at the same time. >> let's remind our viewers that the next court hearing in the criminal case that has been brought by the manhattan district attorney's office isn't until december, which is getting much closer to a presidential election year. i want you both to take a listen to donald trump last night when asked if he would drop out of the race if convic

attempting to get a federal judge to block jordan from issuing subpoenas to compel testimony from d.a. bragg the district attorney including mark pomeranz, a former prosecutor of bragg. this is all happening as pomeranz led the investigation before resigning and writing a back about his frustrations that bragg failed to move forward with his case. now, jordan says pomeranz could prove the da's current prosecution of trump is a political witch hunt but refuses to cooperate the judiciary committee. the 50-page lawsuit says jordan's lawsuit into d.a. bragg is an unprecedently brazen an constitutional attack calling jordan's subpoenas a threat to the sovereign powers of the states and to the integrity of the john going criminal investigation into trump. the lawsuit reads in part "if he, trump, wishes to argue that his prosecution is politically motivated, his free to raise the concern to the new york state criminal court. chairman jordan is not free to unconstitutionally deploy congressist limited subpoena power for raw political retaliation, intimidation or obstruction." republican house judici

d.a. bragg charged alba with murder before dropping the charges amid public outcry, and heard from the father of joseph boregen, one of his attackers who showed no remorse was given a six month plea deal by d.a. bragg. he admonished the democrats on the house judiciary committee. here he is and other victims. >> he was laughing, that's very nice and the other democrats are telling us that we are all props. please don't talk down to us. >> the democrat party, including mr. nadler and everybody here today has ignored us in the city and we need federal oversight, we need help. >> the next time an snpt man does nothing but protect their own life in self-defense they should not be made the villian but treated with care and compassion as the victim. >> in 2022, d.a. bragg downgraded more than 50% of the felony cases to misdemeanors and only convicted half of the major felony cases. overall, crime in new york city in 2022 was up 22%, and felony arrests hit a 16-year high. d.a. bragg contends in manhatt

the d.a. bragg is employing the power and current legal authority of his office to protect a former employee, a veteran of the office, and it's a person he had disagreements about -- with. we can get to that but regardless of their disagreements about law or approaching cases, he is using his legal powers to protect that individual and any other employees saying, hey, going after them and like going after me, and you can't do that under the law in the middle of an open criminal case. not for a circus atmosphere, as he calls it. there's been a lot of talk about treating a former president fairly in the courts, treating him like anyone else, and trump as at times benefitted from that, and he is afforded all the rights, including the presumption of innocence what we're seeing tonight with this new filing and other steps is now that mr. trump is defendant trump, now that he's been charged, the d.a. has to try to man at the table, defendant donald trump, as the actual defendant that he is. and real talk

d.a. alvin bragg that cites as criminal evidence donald trump's public provocations to potential violence, him swinging a bat at this d.a and that filing, which we have more on later tonight, quotes from exactly these kind of threats, many without powder, many without anything physical attached poured into the office. the d.a. connected in general what he argues is donald trump's unlawful meddling and threatening in this case with the actual threats that are being delivered to the office. everyone hopes that this is as far as it goes but this is not a drill. this is something we will continue to report on, because we are not only looking at the first prosecution of a former president in american history, we are also looking at something very rare, which is someone who's held the highest office in the land being directly linked to provocations to violence, being rebuked by a judge for that that story just came into our newsroom we have more on the whole thing tonight. it's not our top story, but i wanted to get that on record for you. we have more on that with special guests, including u up

tonight two sources tell nbc news that judge juan merchan and d.a. bragg have been receiving extra security >> no one is suggesting anything should happen to the judge or his family, and president trump's comments did not in any way, shape, or form incite violence >> reporter: meanwhile, former president trump is also facing another legal setback in another case with former vice president pence deciding not to appeal a federal judge's decision requiring him to testify to a grand jury about any potentially illegal acts mr. trump may have committed surrounding january 6th. as that legal fight looms, republicans are rushing to mr. trump's defense over the manhattan charges by a democratic d.a. >> now after we've seen all that yesterday i think people think it's even more political than we thought of beforehand. >> reporter: even the former president's most consistent republican critic in washington, utah senator mitt romney, saying in a statement while he believes mr. trump is unfit for office, quote, the new york prosecutor has stretched to reach felony crim

[gavel] >> can w order. >> a fiery hearing at times,fedy dismiss a lawsuit filed by d.a. bragg. agg wants to block jordan from being able to subpoena witnesses in a congressional investigation into bragg's criminal indictment of former president trump. court arguments in that case begin on wednesday. bret? >> bret: bryan llenas live in new york. thank you. back in washington the g.o.p. is marking 100 days since kevin mccarthy was sworn in as house speaker in a very long speaker vote process if you remember. well, today, mccarthy talked about the party's accomplishments and agenda. here is senior congressional correspondent chad pergram live on the hill. good evening, chad. >> bret, as we speak house republicans are about to tout their policy wins. a parents' bill of rights plus an energy bill however a colossal fight looms this summer over the debt ceiling. >> i wish i got that kind of applause in congress. >> house speaker kevin mccarthy celebrating 100 days on the job with a speech to the new york stock exchange. took mccarthy five days and 15 ballots to win the speakership. >>

so you really get the sense that when d.a. bragg took over and said, you know what? he toll me the investigation, that year-plus period is one where they continued digging, as a good prosecutor would to make sure you've look at all witnesses and all possible documents. >> and a quick question to adam reiss who's now on the phone with us, our nbc producer. was there an outcome to the request for protective order to the judge? >> there was not while i was there, but i can brief you on what was said from both sides inside the courtroom if you like when i left there was no decision on the request by the prosecutors. >> yeah, go ahead, adam, tell us what happened. >> chris conroy, acting as prosecutor, talked about the 34 counts said this was in order to conceal a conspiracy and undermine the 2016 election, that this was an effort to identify and suppress negative information. these were covert and illegal payments made at the direction and to the benefit of donald j. trump. the purpose was to suppress the affair, the alleged affair with stormy daniels he paid cohen by us

they voted in d.a. braggw he's doing the job. >> where do you think this whole debate goes over this prosecution? there are some, even some democrats who feel that this is a weaker case and it may take away from whatever impact potential other indictments on january 6th or mar-a-lago documents or the georgia case may have >> absolutely. i think there are a lot of open questions around the indictment of trump in particular i think there's a lot we don't know there we're seeing obviously now a lot of noise around d.a. bragg's lawsuit and the ongoing back and forth here around oversight efforts. there's a lot still to come on this story, i agree. >> what is his reputation, the mann d.a. in terms of being political? he had earned criticism from former prosecutor pomeranz for not proceeding right away, but doj didn't proceed either, and they had a year and a half, two years to do it now he's going all in on it? >> right, absolutely i think there's questions around whether the political pressure from former prosecu

d.a. bragg's progressive policies. bragg's office says it is a stunt, something that jordan disputes. >> the witnesses we will have on monday won't call this a stunt. they know what happened to their families, communities and businesses in manhattan. >> a federal judge will hear arguments wednesday whether or not to issue a temporary restraining order to prevent pomerantz from testifying the following day on thursday. >> harris: wow, we're down to t.r.o. restraining orders. jason chaffetz. fox new contributor and former republican congressman for utah. great to see you if "focus", jason. i mention the words making it personal because it feels this way with alvin bragg. the indictment against trump weak, he goes after him. now going after a committee led by someone like you led oversight. you have every right to investigate. >> i also used to be on the judiciary committee and served with jim jordan there. guess what, district attorney bragg, if you take federal money, you will be subject to federal oversight. jim jordan

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jonathan, will we hear from d.a. bragg at some point? >> 3:30, the scheduled press conference a lot depends on when this court hearing gets under way and gets completed, he is part of 39:30 press conference, and for those of us who have covered d.a. bragg, he will stick within his comments, within what is in the indictment, and not stray too much. we have tried many a times, on many other cases, and he is, you know, a trained former federal prosecutor, and -- >> he has to know that he is already on the defense from, you know, much of the criticism over the last several days. >> he is certainly aware. i think he will outline these charges, i think he will explain to the best he can, the rationale for bringing these charges and why they were brought now. but i don't think he's going to get involved in some of the extraneous conversations that are going to go on, he will address what's in the indictment, and he has sort of engaged that way with the press to date. >> that's by the way a picture of him going into the courthouse earlier. he do

manhattan d.a. bragg has filed a federal lawsuit against jim jordan, the lawsuit accuses him of interfering in the criminal prosecution of former president trump. congressman jordan recently subpoenaed documents and testimony from bragg and a former assistant prosecutor on the case. bryan, what's happening n ex with this lawsuit? >> bill, the first court hearing is next wednesday, a federal judge could decide whether or not to issue a temporary restraining order to prevent one of manhattan d.a.'s former prosecutors from testifying to congress the next day on thursday. jim jordan says testimony from bragg's former prosecutor, mark pomeranz, could prove the felony case against former president trump is a political witch hunt.

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we're going to d.a. bragg now. >> thanks for joining us -- >> neil: he's the prosecutor in this case. >> earlier this afternoon, donald trump was arraigned on a new york supreme court indictment, returned by a manhattan grand jury on a 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. under new york state law it is a felony to falsify business records with intent to defraud an intent to conceal another crime. that is exactly what this case is about. 34 false statements, made to cover up other crimes. these are felony crimes in new york state no matter who you are. we cannot and will not normalize serious conduct. the defendant repeatedly made false statements on new york business records. he also caused others to make false statements. the defendant claimed that he was paying michael cohen for legal services performed in 2017. this simply was not true. it was a false statement that the defendant made month after month in 2017. april, may, june and so on through the rest of the year. for nine

d.a. alvin bragg is sworn in he looks unlikely to charge trump. pomeranz resigns, says this move is wrong and misguided he insists that trump is guilty of numerous felony violations and then writes a book about it and takes it on the road jim jordan is saying that pomeranz is uniquely situated to provide information into that republican investigation, so what does jim jordan want here his motives are not difficult to decipher jordan sees pomeranz to bolster his claim that this is a politically motivated indictment, a claim that jordan was making your public resignation reportedly left d.a. bragg deeply stung he goes on to say your book also contributed to the political pressure d.a. bragg felt to bring charges against former president trump. nbc has reached out to pomeranz's firm and to the top democrat of the judiciary committee, chris, we have not heard back >> sahil kapur, thank you for that meantime, we're getting some major revelations from a former member of russian president vladimir putin's elite security detail he just defected, and gave

d.a. alvin bragg. witnesses are expected to include several crime victims and victims rights activists. life your new york city bureau or newsroom, here is what to expect. oprah beginning 9:00 a.m. monday morning we can expect to hear witness testimony in a federal building not far from district attorney alvin bragg's lower manhattan office. we expect to hear from at least six witnesses to include bodega clerk josÉ alba. last year the event 61-year-old was charged by d.a. bragg's office with second-degree murder after he stabbed and killed the man who attacked him while he worked at a convenience store. the case was dropped after public outcry over the surveillance video was released for the d.a.'s office released a statement about the field hearing saying in part do not be fooled the house the gop is coming to the safest big city in america for a public political stunts. this won't engage in actual efforts such as supporting a national gun legislation and shutting down the iron pipeline. now mendes field hearing by the gop led committee is the latest criticism since the grand jury indi

bannon case over the border wall and defrauding donors later this year and a lot made whether the d.a. bragg had any say in the judge. and we were told the d.a. has no say, that is a decision made by the court and usually it's random, but if a judge has the kind of intel or has, for instance, overseen cases that are related, and in this case he obviously has, having overseen three of those cases i just mentioned, then that trump's those other things, for lack of a better word there. and that is why he would perhaps see this case. so i think it's going to be fascinating in the sense this is obviously somebody that the former president on truth social, says he hates trump outright, and his attorney said no, no, no, pulling back on that, saying we don't think he's biased. fascinating to see how the judge reacts to the former president and defense lawyers and what the playbook will be from his defense. i think that will probably be the most substantive things in terms of the motions laid out by him. >> john: he was appointed by then mayor bloomberg to the family court in 2006, judge merchan's li

d.a. alvin bragg who the nation knows who the d.a. is from manhattan, he's suing the house judiciary committee chairman jim jordan. he's accusing jordan of an unconstitutional attack on the investigation that bragg is doing in to the former president trump. so let's get to david spunt live at the doj. hi, david. what are you learn something. >> it's not every day we see the house judiciary chairman go after a local district attorney. these are two levels of government not something that we see. here we are right now alas. this has been a fight brewing for several weeks since donald trump was indicted, before he was indicted when we knew the grand jury was getting ready to finish up its work in new york. a lot of arguments in public between jim jordan and the house judiciary chairman and alvin bragg. this was filed to stop the judiciary committee from issuing a subpoena to mark pomeranz. he's a former employee of the district attorney's office who has come out, spoken against the office in many ways, clearly alvin bragg not too fond of

coming here and highlighting d.a. bragg is a political stunt. >> harris: it is not surprising to hear that from eric adams. this is the same leader in the city who said that all of the crimes that we continue to experience here is a perception of crime. that there is no reality to it. people don't count murder numbers and call them fiction. d.a. bragg's office echoing the mayor's sentiments. some democrats say it's retaliation for bragg's recent indictment of former president donald trump. bryan llenas is live outside the hearing in new york city. some of the stories, madeleine's story was heart jarring to hear her talk about also what hasn't been done. >> madeleine brame says two people who killed her son were sentenced to life if prison but two others who have not. she was very frustrated in there today. eight witnesses testified in front of the republican-led house judiciary commissioner by a partisan group inside there today. the victims of crimes say manhattan d.a. alvin bragg has failed them trying to prioritize fairn

that was on the line and even while bragg was campaigning for the d.a. e participated in a rare judicial inquiry involving that garner case that he was showing he could do more than one thing at a time. those are the signs that bragg would stick to those positions new york is a place where d.a.s are expected, like a lot of places, to be very allied and, quote, loyal to the police no matter what. so that in his election, in his public persona was something he had to navigate. he didn't back down off of it. inthe trump case, if some people were surprised that bragg moved first with all these open probes, georgia, they mint have been paying attention to his actual work, because he came into office with that independence, he refused to be pressed by the early holdovers who wanted a speedy trump indictment some of them left, mr. pomeranz and others we reported on that. but bragg continued to methodically work the case of the line i mentioned he beat trump on the foundation case, then the trump organization on the business side, convicting it, and convicting tr

. >> so, d.a. braggcharging former president trump with 34 felony counts, that is a felony count for every single falsified business record that they have in evidence, apparently. now, as he mentioned, in new york, in order to be found guilty of a felony count or be charged with a felony count, you have to be found to have been trying to hide a second crime, so in this case, what bragg is alleging is that essentially former president trump falsified business records in furtherance of his 2016 presidential election, which is a violation of new york state election law because under new york state election law, you can't be promoting a candidate -- or your candidacy under unlawful means. that's as best as we have come as we see, based on his press conference come in terms of understanding the charges. now in terms of what happened inside the courtroom, the former president did not say a word. he sat stoically up your car producers set said at one point he described the former president walking into the cour

in a lawsuit filed in federal court today d.a. bragg sued congressman jordan for interfering with bragg's criminal case against trump. bragg's lawyers write in the filing congressman jordan's investigation constitutes, quote, an unpres precedented brazen and unconstitutional attack chairman jordan and the committee are participating in a campaign of intimidation, retaliation, and obstruction bragg's attorneys detail a campaign of constant harassment by trump and his republican allies the tweets, and the truth social posts and the fox news interviews they cited trump two social post-s calling bragg a soros backed animal. so it really -- and then they write about what an absolute constitutional disaster it is. there are numerous legal citations in this complaint like this one federal intrusions into state criminal trials frustrate both the state's sovereign power to punish offenders and their good faith attempts to honor constitutional rights. so there's a lot in this 50-page document this complaint from alvin bragg for the judge to chew

. >> d.a. braggcalling this is a political stunt which is a term we have heard republicans describe his prosecution of former president trump. spent thousands ton that while declining to prosecute 1200 felony cases last year up from 828 in 201. so, today, the committee will hear from a star witness, really, jose alba. the bow day clerk you see after stabbing career criminal attacked him in his store last summer. charge dropped after public outcry. madeline son murdered. madison. son beaten in anti-semitic hate crime. new york city congressman robert holden a democrat. going to serve as a witness as well. >> we have the greatest police force in the world before the pandemic. after the riots in new york city. the george floyd riots, we have had disrespect for police. >> many of our politicians and many of our district attorneys not all of them, but many of them have emboldened the criminal element. they feel empowered and they know there are no consequences when you violate the law. >> if no one is abo

right you beat me to it, my friend i was going to read that newly released statement as well by d.a. bragg. joining me now political white house editor and msnbc contributor, sam stein good to see you. we have pomeranz, this guy has been critical of alvin bragg i mean, we know this he is not on house republicans' side, though, by any means why would they ask him to testify? if they're trying to discredit this case against donald trump >> you know, that's an interesting question that i was asking to fellow editors here in our slack channels trying to figure out what the long-term strategy is here because you can see a future in which pomeranz does agree to testify, comes to the hill, and lists the ways, the copious ways in which he believes trump should have been prosecuted. that the prosecution is, in fact, legitimate or going through what he believes are act that is maybe we don't know about that donald trump and/or the trump organization have taken. it's a high-risk strategy. my suspicion is that jim jordan and house republicans have done this for one or two reasons, one, they feel like

d.a. bragg's office is trying to convince the judge oeverseeing that case to keep all evidence under wrapsbragg asked for aect forrive order that asks trump, a former president, be barred from seeing material during the discovery process without his lawyers present and trump be prohibited from posting details on any of it on news or social media platforms, the former president prosecutors mentioned trump's tendency to go after anyone investigating him noting he's already attacked several people linked to this case including d.a. bragg and the judge himself. they also argued the current federal investigation into trump's handling of classified materials down at mar-a-lago, quote, gives rise to significant concern the defendant will similarly misuse grand jury and other sensitive materials here and what do you know today trump's lawyers are asking house republicans to intervene in that very same investigation. today trump's lawyers sent this ten-page letter to the republican chair of the house intelligence committee essentially asking him to step in prevent doj from continuing to conduct ham

when the house judiciary fired off its very first subpoena in their so-called investigation into d.a. braggr bragg in response to the subpoena has called the so-called investigation an unprecedented campaign of harassment and intimidation. joining us now is andrew wiseman, former fbi general counsel and of course msnbc legal analyst and someone who is literally the voice of this whole series of sagas for us on this channel andrew, first let's just talk about the nature of these threats and how unprecedented this is. i mean and you know what it's like to prosecute the crime family >> if you're prosecuting all cases i've done in the mob there's a rule, you do not go after judges, you do not go after prosecutors, after their families why? not because they're good people and they don't think it's a good thing to do. it's bad business to go after agents and prosecutors and judges is only going to lead to more scrutiny on what they're doing. plus, you know what, i have a big ego, but i'm fungible. if you take out one prosecutor just another one -- >> another one is going to pop up >> exactly the

this past tuesday d.a. braggled a federal lawsuit against the committee's chairman jim jordan accusing their publican lawmaker waging a campaign of intimidation over his prosecution of the former president. bragg is seeking to bar subpoenas at chairman jordan has her plans to issue as part of an investigation into bragg's handling of the trunk case. on friday, jordan called this and overstep. >> alvin bragg said the house judiciary republicans, they are interfering in our investigation. it is just the opposite they are interfering in our constitutional duty to do oversight speed they are interfering. this prosecution, this indictment president trump is interfering in the most important election we have. the election for president of the united states. x now come another witness for monday's hearing, and jewish man who was beaten may 2021 admits how manhattan as he walked to pro-israel rally, jon. >> to be cotton, reporting thanks. we are learning more about the moments before at last week's deadly stabbed link te

d.a. in new york county, which alvin bragg now has the job. he was given a call by cy vance to be an outside observer for the trump-related matters in the d.a.'s office. and pomeranz is looking to this book. he makes an interesting case about real estate holdings in new york. we were on the errorlier today. your -- everybody had a theory about this. okay? now we know because we've seen the indictment. your theory that would be more pertaining to the payments with stormy daniels. you think about that leak last night at 8:37 p.m. where yahoo news was reporting and there's a good question for the d.a. here, how did yahoo news get this information that 34 felony counts would be levelled against president trump today. that was supposed to be secret. that's when i started thinking more and more about this case that pomeranz laid out. now, he resigned because bragg did not take up his matter. again, a lot of this deals with real estate. how you value it. is it undervalued so you can get a break from the irs or is it overvalued so you can inflate your

cities in america are dealing with public safety, i think coming here, highlighting d.a. bragg is a political stunt. kennedy: but here is the thing, data shows a lot of people have moved out of new york and other f blue cities because of crime, why are they pretending it all great it is dangerous. we'll discuss this with someone who is in was in republn congressman laurel lee. we will break it down with our p party panel, dr. wright, and richard fowler and cofounder based politics hannah cox. lauren, i will start with you, the tale that is told and lived in new york is very similar to big cities across the nation. crime is up. and cops of leaving is there a correlation? >> look. i understand what republicans are doing here. when the focus is on high crime rates in democrat-lady lead cities they do well. it is true crimes up all over the country. but for the deckc democratic leaders not best message to say, yeah but that is happening everywhere, you need a more pro active approach for your cities. maybe just point to crime over over the country and talk about their solutions to

. >> reporter: d.a. braggent of trump, accusing him of falsifying bes as part of a year's long alleged hush money scheme. trump's lawyers say they will mount an aggressive effort to have the charges dismissed. >> you are charging the president of the united states with crimes, crimes that will never be sustained in the court of law because they don't exist. >> reporter: sources say the manhattan d.a. and his prosecutors are aiming for a trial next january, and if that were to happen, that means trump could be spending time in new york, facing trial. all while campaigning in iowa and new hampshire ahead of those early nominating contest. >> norah: it's going to be a next ordinary year ahead. robert costa, thank you so much. well, another of deadly tornadoes left a path of destruction across the midwest today and the threat continues tonight. early this morning, at least five people were killed and thousands others injured when a large twister toward or through a rural community in southeastern missouri. that is

manhattan d.a. bragg spoke to reporters after trump was arraigned and defended the charges against the former president. >> donald trump was arraigned on a new york supreme court indictment, returned by a manhattan grand jury on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree under new york state law it is a felony to falsify business records with intent to defraud and an intent to conceal another crime. that is exactly what this case is about 34 false statements made to cover up other crimes. these are felony crimes in new york state no matter who you are. we cannot and will not normalize serious criminal conduct the defendant repeatedly made false statements on new york business records he also called others to make false statements >> meanwhile, former president trump spoke in front of the crowd at his mar-a-lago estate last night follow that arraignment. nbc news correspondent dasha burns has more on that dasha? >> reporter: jonathan, the former president's first remarks since news

d.a. alvin bragg in the afternoon, after the arraignment, the first time he's spoken publicly on this. there has been so much speculation about why he's chosen to take this case, why he chose to do so now, the types of charges he may put together and his response to the attack from the former president all questions on my mind as we head to the news conference in a few hours after the arraignment. >> trump's legal team has been signaling they're ready to fight and they'll go hard. what is the mood in the trump world this morning >> i can tell you right now things are fairly quiet outside of trump tower this is where the choreography will begin as the former president leaves his residence here in the next few hours what we know is that so far he has not yet posted this morning to his social media platform, a stark contrast from yesterday. he was posting quite a lot pretty relentlessly, late into the night, attacking the manhattan d.a., saying that d.a. bragg should himself be indicted, also going after the prosecutor and the documents case, posting a lot of polls showing him ahead of hi

d.a. alvin bragg. york city newsroom now with a preview. >> hi arthel good afternoon premier lesson 24 hours out from the hearing will be expect crime victims and victims rights advocates to speak against the policies of manhattan d.a. alvin bragg. their voices come as nypd gives new insight on the city's revolving door of shoplifters from nypd confirmed to fox news the 327 people responsible for a third of the cities shoplifting arrests last year, those people have been arrested and rearrested more than 6000 times for some of the shoplifters commit their crimes as a trade. others are driven by addiction or mental illness. house republicans have argued these sorts of offenses and violent crime are running rampant while bragg prosecutes former president donald trump. now, monday's field hearing led by republican chairman jim jordan is the latest criticism against bragg since the grand jury's indictment of the former president. on april 4, chuck pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business reco

house republicans accuse d.a. braggcrime while also launching political attacks against former president trump. bragg calling tomorrow's hearing a political stunt. lawmakers will highlight an incident from last july when 61-year-old jose alba was charged with murder after he stabbed a man in self-defense. you see mt. surveillance video it shows the bow bodega clerk was reacting after the 35-year-old approached him after the counter. the charges were later dropped following widespread outcry. the new york post reports he has movedded out of the country since the incident. lawmakers are also going to the hear from a city council member and other advocates who believe changes to the bail laws may have left the city less safe. >> politics is the thing that messed this all up. there is no elected official many if office right now that is fit on the dogcatcher. they need to put that garbage bail reform law and all its moving parts through the shredder. >> reporter: congressman jerry nadler who is ranking member of the committ

d.a. alvin bragg as well as to the judge. that was a huge back and forth with that. they also bought up the potential for conflict of interest and joe tacopina and allegations he may have had conversations with stormy daniels. tacopina for his part came back and said he never spoke with her, never took on her case. and then they discussed the proceedings and what's to come, motions, discovery over the next coming months. and then the prosecution wanted the trial date of january 2024, right smack in the middle of a heated presidential election donald trump's lawyers said that's not really relitzic we'd like a little bit more time, potentially into the spring all of that, this proceeding lasted a little more than hour, jose >> from that proceeding the former president left, got out at ludpardia airport and went to mar-a-lago that's where exactly vaughn hilliard was you were actually inside mar-a-lago when the former president spoke last night how was that >> reporter: right, just six hours separated his arraignment in lower manhattan from his arraignment. for donald tr

d.a. bragg: i am glad you put your finger on that. it's not just about one payment, it is 34 business records, 30 four false statements and business records that were conceiving criminal conduct, and the earlier question about new york state election law, talking about conspiracy to promote a candidacy by unlawful means those unlawful means include the conduct set forth in the statement of facts, which is additional false statementsmar-. >> ♪ and i'm proud to be an american where at least i know i'm free i won't forget the men who died who gave that right to me and i gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today cause there ain't no doubt i love this land god bless the usa ♪ [applause] [chanting] mr. trump: thank you very much, everybody. we have to save our country. god bless you all. [applause] and i never thought anything like this could happen in america. never thought it could happen. the only crime that i have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it. [cheers and applause] mr. trump

d.a. alvin bragg of being soft on crime.ocrats accusing republicans of an ult ulterior motive. >> alvin bragg announced the indictment of former donald trump, and maga house republicans have responded by using their power to try to help expresident trump beat the 34 counts of fraud that he has been charged with. >> i want to bring in "washington post" congressional investigations reporter who covered the house judiciary field, jackie alemany. also with us, former u.s. attorney joyce vance in set, in studio so glad to have you here how did this hearing play out today, and what does it mean for the larger battle between bragg and the house gop we have seen playing out for a number of weeks now? >> yeah, i think it's really important to start with the facts here which is that in bragg's first year in office in 2022, which was the center of the hearing, this morning, there were 78 homicides in manhattan which was a drop of 15% from the year before, a helpful statistic that the associated press called out was that in palm beach c

d.a. bragg's criminal prosecution of former president trump. here is ranking democrat gerry nadler at a press conference moments ago. >> jim jordan and his republican accomplices are acting as an extension of the trump defense team trying to intimidate and deter the duly elected district attorney of manhattan from doing the work his constituents elected him to do. >> bragg was elected with 83% of the vote. mayor adams called new york the safest big city in america. >> we have panelists with us this morning. good morning. 2022, 52% of all felony arrests in new york city were downgraded to miss demeanors compared to 39% in 2019. new york crime stats over the past two years decent for now. flat in 2022. murder is down, robbery down slightly. assault up 8%. numbers don't lie. we have an issue in the big city. >> without question. i think it's important that you hold these kinds of hearings and ask all the questions. is there some politics here? politics in everything when you have politicians involved. i hope that after coming here maybe the commit