sentencing presentations that are going to be made by you decide they re called aggravation. that ll be the prosecutor coming in and saying, give mr. trump a harsh sentence. here s why. and mitigation from the other side, the defense go and give him very little sentence probation, whatever. and here s why. and it s very interesting because the way those to present to the court is going to open up arguments, one to the other. the better trump s team says he is, the more that they state will come in and say no, he s not. and that opens up everything from hearsay, two letters two witnesses, to almost inner wender as to who this person issues about three sentence because the sentencing the procedure is pretty wide open as far as what you want to present you know, it s an incredible just to go through this, i mean, this is the system, this is the system at work and he s obviously as part of this with, as a convicted felon prior to sentencing, i know the standard here. mark is for
others, the candidates soon declared will be heading to iowa in one spot at the same time in this cycle. gillian, back to you. gillian: all eyes on iowa today through the rest of the week. rich edson in des moines for us this hour. let s bring in the power panel now. lauren is a princeton university political scientist and scott is the former d.c. democratic party chairman. thank you both for taking time with us today. lauren, trump world sources have told our reporters that the way they see it the more republicans in the field, the better trump s chances are, they want to keep encouraging as many people to throw their hat in the ring as possible. does it square with reality? they are right. when trump says a lot of these people are running for second place i think that is unfortunately true. i m so shocked at the extent to which this is the same story as 2016. it was a huge field of 17
silencing the presidential frontrunner with unconstitutional drag order tomorrow. breaking the order could trigger a fine of $1,000 and a prison sentence of at much as 30 days. fox news has not independently confirmed this. but if the gag order were to be put in place, that could disrupt a speech that the former president intends to make tomorrow night after returning to mar-a-lago. steve, ainsley, brian? steve: that s right. thank you very much. the former president said yesterday he would make a speech tomorrow at 8:15 after he is arrested and arraigned here in new york city. buy, if there is gag order, wonder what will happen because, as you have seen ever since he was we heard news of the indictment, he has been talking about the judge and it s a witch-hunt and stuff like that. trump and his own lawyer are not on the same page. joe tacapino does not refer to it as this guy as the judge who is going to preside over one
sand. where the water ends. it said surf line. steve: that s the organization that provides the image. we need to thank them. ainsley: surf line right here with an arrow. it s a big day today. brian: that was ainsley s way for me to tell me to start reading. steve: as we explain tv to brian. brian: former president donald trump is set to arrive in new york city today ahead of his arraignment out of a manhattan courthouse tomorrow. ainsley: this is a live look at his plane down in palm beach at the international airport, which is expected to depart around noon. steve: that s right. heading our way. alexandria hoff is following the developments from our nation s capital. alexandria, good morning. former president trump is planning a quick round trip to new york. leave at noon bore being formally arrested tomorrow. he adds america bass not supposed to be this way. this follow alvin bragg s 3
people who wrote it unless they can use it to attack it. the democrat party is a tyrannical party that is dragging this country into tyranny. steve: meanwhile, when it comes to timing, when will this trial occur? a bunch of stories yesterday a common donald trump tactic is to delay and appeal. his lawyers will ask for all sorts of delays. the judge in the case has made it very clear. he wants to see this before a jury before the elections. brian: the problem is michael cohen. is he lying about he went to jail for his tax returns. falsifying tax records. oh, no, i didn t do that no, no. you admitted to it. the stuff that you admitted to you were for and now backtracking off. the more interviews he does the better trump s case looks. ainsley: all based off what michael cohen said and he went to prison for lying. brian: and he is still lying. trump arrives today the arraignment is tomorrow