On April 4th, that is tomorrow, as I record this, former President Trump will be arraigned in a Manhattan courtroom.

He was indicted by a New York grand jury last week, but the exact charges against him remain unknown until he appears in court.

On Thursday of last week, Elizabeth Joe and I recorded an episode all about the Manhattan District

Attorney's investigation into Trump's alleged hush money payments and the grand jury deliberations.

About an hour after we finished that recording, the grand jury indictment was announced.

All the reporting so far has indicated that the charges and circumstances around the alleged crimes

conform to everything we discussed when we recorded our episode.

So I thought releasing it was still valuable even though it is a developing story and things we discussed may have, you know, developed.

Anyway, keep that in mind. Here's the show. So we're talking on Thursday, March 30th at about noon. What are we going to be discussing today?

All right, well, on March 18th, Trump posted on truth social, this statement,

illegal leaks from a corrupt and highly political Manhattan District Attorney's Office

indicate that the far and away leading Republican candidate,

that's Trump, and former President of the United States of America

will be arrested on Tuesday of next week. So this was pretty

shocking for Trump to announce of course that he was going to be arrested

imminently because right now there are a number of investigations about

Trump going on at the state and federal level but his post was referring

specifically to the district attorney's office in Manhattan and Alvin Bragg.

Bragg had been reportedly presenting evidence before a grand jury

about Stormy Daniels.

Do you remember Stormy Daniels?

I do.

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