what they have a standin between the prosecutors and trial is a grand jury you have 23 people average citizens picked at random in new york county, manhattan, and they ha to sit in judgment and in th state system the prosecuto can t tell the grand jury want to do the prosecutor cannot sa i want you to indict trump all the prosecutor can do is bring the evidence donald trump actually had witness on his behalf there, and apparently the witness was coaching enough so that the da had to produce more evidence > they ended up bringing david pecker back who, already testified. so something happens there tha was not a trial, but the grand jury had questions the da has to persuade the grand jury, not by bullying no by violence not five horse but by the weight of the evidence, and that, apparently, the jury was persuaded.
previous democratic opponents, hillary clinton and joe bide to be investigated, you, tweeted trump, while withholding aid to ukraine pushed zelenskyy to investigat biden. one of his mantra in 2016 wa lock her up. in both of his previous bid fo president he encouraged lega action against the leading candidate of the rival party now he has a different view. but he should be shielded fo prosecution for two reasons. one, he denies all wrongdoing. to, because he is the favorite to win the republica nomination tell me more about this. it is an essential hypocris here, ali, where, at one point former president donald trum believed that his rivals shoul be investigated. including hillary clinton former secretary of state, including joe biden, the forme vice president of the united states knowing full well that tha could have political implications for them. watching that actually happe in 2016 with hillary clinton and the investigation into her and now donald trump is part o his argument t
versus long term question. the short term, you have see republican leaders rally aroun donald trump we have seen with news of this indictment hanging over him, him consolidating report of th republican primary fro president of the united states in 2024. the question is whether number one, if that does help him win the nomination, whether it als pushes people away from him in the general election, meanin the independents, al republicans, that of course, remains to be seen but the polling suggest that that may be the case and of course, there is th midterm. at the mid range of all of this, which is as that republica primary progresses, would this indictment or possible other indictments or possibl convictions put too much baggage on the scale for trump with republican voters who like, him don t like what th da is doing here but also ar worried that he would be a fatally flawed candidate in th general election i want to mention something you tweeted yesterday in which donald trump had c
and trump offers that kind o answer for people. therefore it s really incumben on those who oppose him, whether it s in the republican party or democratic party, t get people focused on differen subjects what are the practical means what are the things that we ca do to help people feel mor integrated into the societ they live in how do we create more economic growth whatever, there are differen kinds of solutions in differen places but the answer is not to giv into this division and polarization, but to fin different answers to those sam things that people are missing in their lives but if that were that easy, it would ve happened in al those places that you writ about. and, thanks very much as always and applebaum is a staff write for the atlantic she s the author of twilight o democracy, the seductive lur of authoritarianism. it s a big week ahead fo donald trump, and for this nation at the ex president is expecte to be arraigned in manhattan o tuesday. everything you need to kno a
tell me about the sense of the other cases. i m going to put them up on th screen but when you told them up there, they are on seven. we have two that hav defamation cases, laetitia james has a civil, case an then there is the jack smith two cases and then the georgia case is there some sense that there is an order in which they go and he coordination betwee prosecutors on that about, hey can i go first, because this one is going to be bigger? not normally. this is a state prosecution. sometimes we coordinate with the federal prosecution when w are deciding that, for example new york state, we didn t have strong enough laws for sometimes getting the evidence and then turn it over to the feds but i can t think of cooperating in the way tha they are talking about although sometimes we do sen prosecutors to help the federa government but i think the idea that this is a kind of trivial case wrong. let s go back to what exactl is involved here donald trump, the informatio