criminal defense attorney joey jackson and cai von shroff, who had was a digital organizer for hillary clinton. gentlemen thank you very much for being here. it s been described doug as a split screen day. so first we saw something we ve never seen before. in this country, a former u. s president being arrested and arraigned in a criminal court in manhattan and the hero. here s the split screen. basically, donald trump. in court. there are only still photos because that s all the judge allowed, but he looked deflated. frankly um, he looked sort of hunched. his facial expression was not kind of bright or, you know, ready to fight. um he said, in his own words not guilty, and that s all, he said. but he walked in very slowly to the courthouse, and then he was back in his element on the right side of the screen back at mar-a-lago and back to basically playing the hits. of his grievances and all the ways that he s been wronged. are republicans happy today or nervous today? they r
. todd blanche, previously represented paul manafort trump insider who has, you know went to prison for federal charges, he managed to keep it from becoming and echoed state charge and susan necklace worked on that tax fraud case in which trump cfo went off to jail. just some of the faces. there may be many, many more as this case moves forward over what could be a very long time. alison tom. thank you very much. let s bring back my panel now. joey let s talk. we ll all of us. let s talk about these two attorneys who are on the trump team, and they are night and day appears so. todd black, who s from this white shoe law firm procedures law firm and then there s joe tacopina, who s more of a i guess street fighter cable news fixture and today we just saw it in stark relief first, todd blanche came out and was talking to the press. and then joe tacopina kind of jumped in like , let me handle this. so here was that moment. there s nothing
help us sort through the key figures in this case. hey alison , let s start with the person at the center of this whole case. the defendant, donald j. trump for president of the united states. these charges stem from the 2016 election. that is when he allegedly paid this money to this woman to keep quiet this affair from the past and then allegedly, according to these papers, falsified business records about all of that he is a candidate for president in 2024. he denies any wrongdoing in this and says. in fact, this is all about political persecution to keep him from getting back in office again. the prosecutor alvin bragg, he is a manhattan district attorney since january of 2022. he was previously criticized for not charging trump. he is also prosecuting steve bannon, longtime trump adviser in a completely separate case about money being raised for that wall on the southern border of the united states. that s a fraud case, which is still moving