not see the former president in handcuffs. there will be no perp walk. they re working out the details of how this will be carried out in this unprecedented situation. the former president launching attacks on the reported judge in this case, manhattan da alvin bragg and michael cohen calling him a convicted felon and a disbarred lawyer, which he admits he is. at the end of the day, we have an indictment today. so clearly that means that the information provided was more than enough for the grand jury to come back with a determination for an indictment. oh, by the way, for donald, since we re talking about convicted felons, see you on tuesday, pal. so with that, we bring in trey gowdy, host of sunday night in america and former chairman of the house oversight committee and author of stay, started or leave. you can tell that michael cohen who was a long-time employee of the former president trump, a real estate investor and new york city, now he feels vindicated now th
the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts right now manhattan grand jury voted t indict john j trump on thursda for his role in paying hus money to a porn star today is the first day of the rest of don trump s life this is a monumental, historic importance. before tonight, president in this country were - now you are seeing citize trump being treated the same way that anyone else would regardless of the active o former president he s got to be photographed fingerprinted, he s got to appear before a. judge i believe that donald right now is petrified this is one of his biggest fears. tonight he is calling the indictment, quote, political persecution. the first thing the lawye tells you when you are indicte for somebody or charged with something s shutout. he does not have a good defense, his defense will be a reliance on politics, it wil only get uglier from thi moment on. get ready, stop on your legal seatbelt, we are going forward as a country that is goi
violent, we have to remember violence only takes. and that s why we have to over prepare because we can t allow something like this to happen again. but i don t think we ll be seeing violence and massive protests. calvin, thank you and massive protests. calvin, thank you so and massive protests. calvin, thank you so much and massive protests. calvin, thank you so much for- and massive protests. calvin, thank you so much forjoiningi thank you so much forjoining us on the programme. a reminder for our top story donald trump has become the first us president in history to be charged with a crime. be indicted in new york over alleged hush money giving to a pawn star porn star. he s run again for president in 2024, has repeated he is innocent. we had statements coming in from the trump team with mr trump calling the entire process persecution and electoral interference. we can cross live back to my colleague nada tawfik in new york. we were speaking just moments ago, an
daniels during the 2016 election. again, if there is an arrest, that s according to trump. trump also called for protests over his pending arrest to, quote, take our nation back. this development comes as sources tell cnn that law enforcement agencies in new york are also now preparing for the possible indictment of trump. cnn s polo sandoval is outside the manhattan criminal courthouse for us. we can also begin with cnn senior crime and justice report reporter katelyn polantz. what do we know about the announcement on the post? reporter: if it is charged, we don t have the answer to that yet and neither does donald trump. at this point in time his team through a spokesman has made very clear that there has been no notification made to him or his lawyers that he is going to be indicted or when that indictment is going to happen. however, trump is very aware of the politics of this and the bluster and the bully pulpit that he has, and so he is is agitating for his team to tr
want to keep. i ll tell you that also tonight, take a look at your screen. that minute we ll hear from our very own sarah carter on the set, who was accosted by far left protestors on the streets of new york. here s a quick preview. peace and love from your democratic psycho. we have the full video. straight ahead, she ll tell us a story but we begin only a few blocks away where former president trump was arraigned on 34 felony charges. yesterday, for allegedly mislabeling a couple of documents basically. these charges were cook up and stacked by a manhattan d.a. by the name of alvin bragg. any fans here? to fulfill a campaign promise. he dreams of seen trump in a jumpsuit. one problem for bragg, his case is totally bogus. the document charges at play are misdemeanor infractions, by the way, five years past the statue of limitations. they were magically upgraded to felonies by bragg because of supposed links to some mysterious phantom crime that he wouldn t even mention i