new york as a criminal defendant facing 34 felony charges in connection with an alleged scheme to cover up extra marital encounters, one with a porn star , one with a former playboy playmate of the year. we ran the comments from district attorney alvin bragg earlier, so too, will we bring trump to you and jake, whichever donald trump shows up whether he s angry to find defensive, mocking or all of the above, it will be a far different donald trump. from the one earlier today on the 15th floor, the manhattan criminal court building with no one holding the door for him on the way into his arraignment, or the donald trump, who sat stone faced at the defense table for the first what could be many such appearances to come. we don t yet know what the former president makes of this. we could learn shortly, and as we wait for him to speak, we have, as only cnn can a team of correspondents. legal and political analysts help make sense of what happened today and what happens next. let
mirror world and i m afraid it s going to be working. i think it s up to republicans to figure out how to get us out of this situation because this is not good. they don t know how republicans knew how to do that. i think that we would have seen it a long time ago. and i do think that that is a point that you re making. and as a point of this is making, you know, we hear a lot from people around ron desantis, for instance, that he s not changing how he s behaving based on donald trump. he s going to run his game. donald trump is doing what he s doing, and that s fine, except the donald trump was very live news tonight. that doesn t happen that often anymore. and that tells you a lot about how the oxygen is getting subject and i don t think republicans no how to go with donald trump. i don t think they have ever known how to go at donald trump. i don t think that s changed. i do think he has, in some ways tightened his hold on the party, even as his support has slipped. i ll just say th
once the defendant, donald trump, did not want the information about karen macdougal, the affair with karen macdougal to become public because he because he was concerned about the effect it could have on his candidacy. that s on page four of the statement and then again on page six on the stormy daniels matter. trump instructed you that if they could delay the payment until after the election, they could avoid paying altogether because at that point it would not matter if the story became public. he s clearly mr bragg based on your comments based on your testimony under oath, making the argument that donald trump didn t care. if melania found out about this , this was all about hiding these affairs from voters. and i can promise you that mr bragg in his qualified team will be providing a significant amount of documentary evidence that will corroborate all of the allegations or the statements
lost in 2020, who lost a seats in 2022 in 2018. but here he is , the party is still squarely behind him. elected republicans are defending him despite being the first indicted president and former president in history. i mean for somebody who has not paid attention to the ramblings of the former president for quite a while, it s ah, it s not surprising, but it s remarkable that he is still i mean, you could look at this and think. oh, this is four years ago. and it s interesting because the former president, you know as a was a television star 13 seasons , he had his own show, and i would think that he would realize you know, if people see the same show over and over, they re gonna change the channel. at some points. we need to refresh the programming and that you thought you might see that tonight by having some refreshed programming or even more concise program where you can really talk about maybe why alvin bragg went after maybe you talk about look, this wasn t getting prosecuted.
obvious reasons. the other thing is to see if he does continue with his attacks on ellen bragged the district attorney here, because if you read the court transcript today with the judge was saying is this is something that the investigators brought up these attacks that he has continued to put out there. the judge did say that people need to watch their language, but they said it to both by the way to the prosecution and the defense which really stood out to me. that s what i just underlined, he said. such restraints of the most serious at least intolerable and first amendment rights, saying he wasn t even considering or close to imposing a gag order on trump here, but he did. i would encourage council both sides, including the people, meaning the investigators here to please speak to your witnesses because trump s attorneys were arguing about michael cohen going out and talking publicly about what he has said, want to play something that alvin bragg, the district attorney, said at hi