been proven at times to be a lie, proven at times to be consistently false, he s consistently able to make that and get republicans, his rivals to rally around that this is the top of the hour, 2:00 in new york city, and we are going to take a pause, just for all of us to take a breath and remind you of what s happening here donald trump is now inside of the courthouse in lower manhattan. we expecting him to walk down that hallway, where you see that heavy security presence. he is going to go into a courtroom for an arraignment we re told it s likely to be around 30 charges. we do not know what those charges are. we do not know if they re going to be read aloud in court. we do not know how many pages this indictment will be. but we know that donald trump by now, presumably, has been fingerprinted. and he is under arrest as we talk about the implications of this day, politically, neil cottier, let me ask you about the legal argument we make here, in some cases we ve already
aides, not the justice department, said this was a felony, and it was money that had no legitimate purpose and it was donald trump that orchestrated the michael cohen payments and that directed him to do it that was not the michael cohen justice department, it was the trump justice department that made that determination. so, when you hear this about being political and the like, i think it s important to remember that with respect to the statute of limitations, you re right, this senior events that occurred a long time ago. and you already heard barbara say, well, part of the reason why the delays happened is because of trump s own actions and holding back the documents there s another point, though, new york statute of limitations law, 30.10 says if you re continuously out of the jurisdiction, then that time period doesn t count for purposes of the statute of limitations. so donald trump was surely held at the jurisdiction during all of this time that s an open and shut, i think, arg
there was a lot of opposition. it passed with a two-thirds vote. we called it the 30/10 plan. it s now america fast forward, and it stuck currently in the surface transportation bill that hasn t that s only been extended and not been adopted. so we re looking to get that moving. we re also looking to move the 30-year time limit on measure r so that we could accelerate these jobs. fast track them. without washington. we re not waiting on them. you re talking to an l.a. girl here. is there anything better than the los angeles basin, where you have the ocean at one end, you have these beautiful snow capped mountains at the other. drive a little further into the desert. really, is there anywhere better than l.a.? to you and i, no. i imagine there are others who would be watching this and saying, well, i ve got something in my town. but like i said, i really do
upcoming elections. their warnings are being heard a long way from washington. time for our america votes 2010 segment. joining us here in the situation room, the mayor of los angeles, democrat antonio villaraigosa. and joining us in the questi questioning gloria borger and david gergen. welcome to washington. good to be here. barbara boxer, she s the incumbent. up for re-election. can the republicans do in california what they did in massachusetts and get a republican elected to the senate? i don t think so. i can tell you i ve been supporting barbara boxer since the early 1990s. she s a tough campaigner. she works hard for california. she s working hard for los angeles as we speak on a 30/10 plan to create jobs. i suspect she ll have a tough campaign but she ll ultimately prevail. hi. can you sort of fill in the blank for me since you re here in washington and we re all in the middle of this health reform debate. if the democrats don t get