just faced a judge standing in court in shackles, his family also in the courtroom. what we re learning this hour about when he got his top secret clearance are a stage now set for some big name republicans trump desantis haley pence, all heading to the gun convention of america s gun violence crisis right now, parisian authorities are tightening security as protesters prepare to learn the fate of the pension reform changes they ve been fighting against four weeks. these major stories and more right here on cnn news, central. this just in to cnn court documents show that dak jack to share a had top secret clearance . 20 run your 21 year old massachusetts air national guardsman appeared in a boston federal courtroom this morning. he has now been charged with allegedly being behind that massive leak of classified military documents, according to new detail from uh, new deal t of detail from court this morning to share allegedly began posting the documents around december of las
good evening, everyone. i m alison camerata. welcome to cnn tonight. we continue our live coverage of the historical day of a former president being arrested and arraigned this afternoon, donald trump faced 34 felony counts for falsifying business records in connection with the hush money payments to adult film star stormy daniels. hours later, and aggrieved donald trump appeared in front of a very friendly mega outfitted proud at mar-a-lago. i never thought anything like this. could happen in america never thought it could happen. the only crime that i have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it. from there, he went on to spout his usual litany of lies and grievances. but that was the only part of today that was familiar. everything else we ve never before seen a former u. s president under arrest and walking into a courtroom sitting , with his defense team, having to answer to charges just as any other criminal defendants would so now
From august 2015 to December 2017 the defendant, im quoting that, obviously, is donald trump orchestrated a scheme with others. The defense the indictment reads to influence the 2016 president ial election by identifying and purchasing negative information about him to suppress its publication and to benefit the defendants electoral prospects. Now according to the statement of facts, which accompanies this actual indictment, which they go through through here, 130,000 were paid to Adult Film Star Stormy Daniels 30,000 to a doorman and 150,000 to another woman, which it is clear from the statement of facts is Karen Macdougal. It is an unprecedented chapter in American History. And good afternoon to all. Im erin burnett here in new york, and im wolf blitzer here in washington. The lead up to trumps arrest was truly a remarkable sight to see the former president of the United States, leaving trump tower early this afternoon. His 11 car motorcade arriving at the Manhattan Criminal Court bu
world. i m bianca nobilo, max foster joining you live from london just ahead on cnn newsroom. no matter who you are , we cannot and will not normalized serious criminal conduct. they can t beat us at the ballot box, so they try and beat us. through the law extraordinarily distressed by this document. i think this is even weaker than i feared it would be. no power. oh, my god. that s right for severe weather will continue on into our wednesday over the great lakes and the ohio valley. i ll have the threats and the timing. knife from london. this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it s wednesday, april 5th nine am here in london, four am in new york and at mar-a-lago, with donald trump and his legal team are gearing up for a legal battle after he became the first current or former u. s president to be criminally charged. arrested and arrange. trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony criminal charges of falsifying business records in a historic and unprecedented cou
think this is even weaker than i feared it would be. a motion to dismiss is coming on several grounds. this case won t see a jury. in my opinion, no one is above the law, and that includes donald j. trump. morning good morning. reaction to yesterday has really been something. yeah how do you really put this into context? i m not sure if we know at this point, i think there s a lot more that s going to play out, but certainly historic, unprecedented, stunning. i think one of the problems for the american people for everyone right now is the fact that they there is a lot that they don t know. keep being what s the underlying crime that makes this makes 34 counts of felony? that s not in here, right? and so transport currency is of the utmost importance in this moment, and we don t we don t know one of the big things, but we should also not downplaying. i think we are, but i think we should point out that the images coming out of 100 center street were there, but the picture is