first president to stand in front of a judge facing criminal charges. that s right. caitlin is right there out front of the courthouse in lower manhattan where this will all happen, caitlin. yeah it s notable. the building behind me is 100 center street that is the building where just hours from now president for president trump will enter as he surrenders to local authorities on charges related to business fraud in the building next to it is where the grand jury has been meeting for the last several months before voting last thursday, as we all know now to indict trump, making him the first former president or sitting president to face charges, while the latest details on what to expect, and we re also following a lot of other news today. let s get started with the five things that you need to know for this tuesday, april 4th 2023 donald trump, as we noted, expected to be arraigned this afternoon before returning to mar-a-lago for a news conference later on, he added a new a
she was the city s first black woman and the first mayor who identified as gay in chicago. it was the first time a full term incumbent had lost reelection in that city in 40 years, but obviously as voters head to the polls today, a lot on the line burn burn. yeah you know, you know chicago history snow up, but you don t get reelected member. you re talking about that. i appreciate it, caitlin back to where it s all going to be the center of attention today. as you said, history in the making will be said a lot. yeah 100 center street. that is where trump is going to be in a few hours. he s starting the day at trump tower ahead of that historic arrangement. of course, he is doing a last minute shake up to his legal team. he s adding someone to the legal team. we should note. we ll tell you what to expect in court. that s ahead.
presumably can with speaker pelosi, fine, we have a continuing resolution for the department of homeland security for a month, we will debate the border issue. meanwhile, we have six other agencies in the federal government that you are closing down and holding hostage that we re willing to pass bipartisan appropriations bills for those. i think it s a very hard argument for republican senators to resist as i said before. donald trump can resist it by not addressing it. it s here are the border patrol guys and we need a wall, thank you. to be clear, this is basically this is a stunt. this isn t a briefing. so we thought thereto was it was billed as a last-minute briefing. it was not a briefing. a briefing is questions. a briefing have more than just a political stunt which is what we just saw. it being held in the briefing room does not a briefing make there. should have been yeah. this was a this was a press availability, i guess, maybe, a photo-op, except there were words
center of attention today, getting a ton more attention even then, certain measures being kicked around that could avoid a government shut down. shep? shepard: peter doocy live on the hill. thank you. let s go to john alterman now. he served in the state department under president george w. bush and the director of middle east programs at the center for strategic studies, which is a nonprofit research organization. john also new jamal khaishoggi. what do you make of what is happening there today, sir? it s interesting that the administration has been trying to head this off, to say there s nothing to see here. it feels to me like a lot of what we re seeing out of congress is not so much about really bashing the saudis but about pulling u.s. policy towards being serious, at least saying this cannot stand. where u.s. policy ends up, but it s a strange tug of war with