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
both directed at new york city, and courts here in new york, and justice system, and the district attorney s office. he said that these are irresponsible social media posts, threatened death and destruction, and even world war iii. he said that these public statements to the district attorney, which included a photo of him swinging a baseball bat towards the district attorney s h head, was very concerning. they re concerned about this and what effect it will have on potential jurors and witnesses but they said this will not dissuade the office, and they re seeking a protective order regarding discovery materials. they re very concerned that some of the attorneys some of this may be leaked or that president trump himself would use some of that discovery in a way that would compromise a potential trial. they began discussing conditions of release they talked about how defense attorney joe tacopina had communications with stormy daniels and that could present a conflict in respo
trump firmly said he pleads not guilty the prosecutors handed over the indictment they said it was unsealed at 1:30 in describing the indictment, they said that mr. trump tried to conceal a conspiracy and undermine the 2016 election, to identify and suppress negative information. this was covert and illegal payments at mr. trump s direction, directed to michael cohen, and the purpose was to suppress this affair and this negative information he paid cohen, and in doing so, he falsified those business re records. he falsified it as cash, was concealing the the another crime, a more serious crime. the prosecutor went on to say that mr. trump has made recent threatening emails and speeches,