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
reasons for that was, and whether that impacts whether the case should be brought and i will say this is an investigation that went on for a while. it started with the u.s. attorneys office and, you know, it was said it was the trump department of justice that decided not to bring the case so, yes, the stakes are high, but i think you have to look at the facts. and here, potentially, you have a series of crimes, falsifying business records which as we re just learning revolve around the commission of other crimes and those crimes are either tax fraud or campaign fraud. and those are important because they involve the integrity of our governmental systems tax crimes are crimes against the public and crimes that are committed with respect to our campaigns implicate the integrity of government processes andal offie