the new indictment. alison okay , caitlin carroll. we should remind everyone that you broke this story for cnn tonight. really appreciate both of your reporting. thank you very much for of that. all right. i want to bring in now. our panel. we have cnn legal analyst jennifer rogers, a former assistant, u s attorney also with us. nick akerman, former assistant special watergate prosecutor, and john miller, cnn s chief law enforcement and intelligence analysts, guys. thank you very much for being here with us on this special coverage tonight, nick. i ve spoken to you many times on this program, and you always felt confident that this was going to happen. question about it. i mean, exactly, we re not confident on is exactly what those charges are going to be. we know that the stand the daniels hush payments are part of this. the stormy daniels payments, but we don t know if there s more to it if there s more to it about falsification of records in the trump organization, particularly in l
there s usually a row of cameras there and then enter the courtroom. sometimes defendants entered the courtroom wearing handcuffs at the discretion of the da s office. it remains to be seen what they will do here, but then he will enter the courtroom and then he will go before the job. judged and the judge will ask him to enter a plea. in this case. we expect that pleased to be not guilty. his lawyers coming out with a strong statement that they are going to fight these charges in court. they have been critical of the manhattan district attorney, alvin bragg, saying that there was no crime committed here. alison okay, caitlin. obviously this is not the only investigation of donald trump. do we know if there was any coordination between the d a in manhattan and the others in terms of the timing here? we don t right now, and it would be very unusual for there to be. usually the federal investigators were quite separately from even other federal investigators, let alone the state investig
strong statement that they are going to fight these charges in court. they have been critical of the manhattan district attorney, alvin bragg, saying that there was no crime committed here. alison okay, caitlin. obviously this is not the only investigation of donald trump. do we know if there was any coordination between the d a in manhattan and the others in terms of the timing here? we don t right now, and it would be very unusual for there to be. usually the federal investigators were quite separately from even other federal investigators, let alone the state investigation as far as we know about these other investigations that donald trump is facing serious legal jeopardy on a lot of different fronts. now he has these charges that he is going to have to face in new york in manhattan. that s a state case, but there are also two very significant federal cases as well as the state. jason georgia, potentially that could be brought against him. we know he is under investigation, and it