surrender and appear in court on tuesday afternoon. he reportedly faces more than 30 charges related to hush money payments made to adult film store. stormy daniels. it is impossible to imagine all the scenarios manhattan law enforcement officials are gaming out right now, given what happened on january 6th given that trump has again called for protests this coming tuesday and given that supporters like republican congresswoman marjorie taylor green are tweeting things like this new york put your maga hats on under our constitutional rights. we will support president trump. and protest the tyrants. i ll see you on tuesday . cnn s polo sandoval joins us now, with more on the extraordinary measures going on outside the new york city courthouse in lower manhattan. polo uh, that s a that s a cocktail of a lot of different things coming together on tuesday. you re going to be busy following all of this. what are you seeing right now? certainly all eyes will be on the building is t
. tonight one of donald trump s legal allies joins us live also we ll hear from a former federal judge on whether to expect a gag order as trump attacks the new york judge. plus you ll hear from the jury foreman who acquitted john edwards in a similar campaign finance trial, hear what he has to say and joining me live and studio a panel of great voices to analyze and make sense of this all, but we began with the news involving mike pitts. katelyn polantz joins us now live so kaitlin there s some big news out about this that our team is reporting when it comes to the special counsel investigation and testimony that had to do with seizing voting machines, right. that s right. so with mike pence , the former vice president, he announced today through a spokesperson that he is not going to appeal a court order saying yes to testify to a grand jury. pamela what that means is that he will be appearing before a federal grand jury in dc sometime in the coming weeks or days. we should very much
someone s testimony. alright katelyn polantz thanks for the latest. their and trump s arrest and arraignment is just the first step in a long legal road ahead from manhattan, d. a alvin bragg. it s one thing to bring an indictment. but winning and conviction will be much more difficult. so let s bring in cnn s paula reed. what are the biggest hurdles brag, will face paula. well, pamela at a high level. this case is about buying and then trying to suppress potentially scandalous stories ahead of the 2016 election, but the way it s charged is 34 counts of falsifying business records, and they are charged as a felony and in order for these crimes to be a felony. you have to allege that this was part of a larger criminal scheme. and right now it s not clear what that other crime was. it doesn t have to be specified in the indictment. it was not specified in the statement. the facts. yesterday the district attorney had a press conference. he suggested that that other crime could be either a
are gathered out here yet. so a few hours to go before he arrives, his own legal team and advisors don t think it s wise to be criticizing the judge, especially given that s who is going to be appearing before today. but he has criticized the judge constantly. he is obviously attacked the district attorney in this case, we ll see you know whether or not that is something that judge himself brings up today it remains to be seen. alright katelyn polantz there with all the latest on what s happening there in lower manhattan cake. so as you were just discussing with katelyn polantz and just a few hours we could also hear from the former president, whose attorneys have said that he may speak at the courthouse before or after his arraignment. cnn s paula reid, she s standing by with a closer look at the legal battle that is really just beginning. paula the judge. let s talk about the ruling that came in the order that came in overnight, the judges decided no cameras inside the courtroom. sti
courthouse polo. thanks cnn has now learning that trump will deliver remarks on tuesday night from mar-a-lago following his arraignment. this as his attorney has already previewing the defense strategy that they re going to be laying out. cnn s katelyn polantz is here with me now, caitlin, what more are we learning about how this will play out? we don t know what the indictment says. we have to keep cautioning folks. we don t understand. we have a full understanding of what s in that indictment. so i suppose the defense team doesn t completely understand what they may want to do in response to it. they re going to be reading this all in real time with us. i don t know what it is yet either, and we know that there are likely charges numbering 30 or more and that there s very likely almost certainly felony counts in there, but the trump legal defense team, they re already out, saying we re going to do this. we re going to do that. but we do need to see and wait. what is in that indictmen