of media and as well, new york s finest all there protecting everyone who is out front of that courthouse. we ll put that up for you in a second. hello from washington. i m john roberts. good afternoon to you. gillian: gillian turner in for sandra smith. this is america reports. multiple sources tell fox news trump faces more than 30 charges and at least one of them is a felony. trump is expected to plead nothing on all the charges, they stem from an alleged hush money payment made just weeks before he was elected president in 2016. john: the former president will be booked and fingerprinted, he will not be handcuffed and still unclear whether there will be a mug shot taken. 2:15 eastern time, donald trump will formally face charges in court. it s still unclear when the actual indictment itself will be unsealed, but it s all happening out of the immediate view of the public after the judge denied a request to allow cameras to cover the proceedings live. gillian: we ar
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
it was a very important turning point. and that was one very big reason to try to pay hush money and to keep this story from adding on to access hollywood we continue to watch this corridor and press and all of the security there and we just saw alvin bragg come out. so, it s only less than a minute yeah less than two minutes away from what was to be the beginning of this court appearance what will next happen as well when that indictment is unsealed, we expect the defense attorney, the trump attorneys, will be able to ask for a short delay, so that they can read however long this sealed indictment is. as we ve been today, it could be as long as 35 pages, laura jarrett pointed out earlier that was the alan wieselberg
the arraignment. we know he s being processed, what the schedule said, processed and brought to the courtroom for his 2:15 arraignment. i think we will learn more about the possible motions that his defense team will want to file. that will be probably one of the most substantive things out of today s hearing. for instance, the motion to dismiss the case outright, the motion to perhaps change the venue. it will give us an inside look into the playbook for his defense team and schedule that out when the next hearing will happen, and a substantive thing. and fascinating in the sense, the former president will be face-to-face with the judge, and the judge, i will say, his fourth trump case, you know. he oversaw the trump organization case in which the organization was fined $16 million, he oversaw the case that sent the former cfo, alan wieselberg to prison for five
young voters that made the difference in the election. good news is that we have opportunity right now. the for the people act and john lewis voter advancement act. both right now given if they re passed in senate, will provide protection that we need. got to put pressure on democratic senators, put pressure unfortunate thing about this, this is not a partisan issue. should not allow the republicans who i decide to vote for, republican, democratic, independent, that s my right and choice. but how to access the ballot is democracy issue. beyond democracy being propaganda to a core value. thank you for joining the discussion. we appreciate it. thank you lawrence. thank you. coming up in tonight s episode of defendant trump, alan