photographed and then trump flies back to mar-a-lago where he will speak publicly about the indictment against him. his attorney making this bombshell today. we will look at every potential issue that we will be able to challenge and we will challenge it and, of course, i very much anticipate a motion to dismiss coming because there s no law that fits this. alicia: the details of the indictment are typically under seal before the arrangement takes place but there are reports that trump will face as many as 34 charges. if the charges are exclusively along the lines of the reporting before i came on, it ll be a class e felony and there is an upward range that involves prison and downward range that involves no prison whatsoever. so that s what we have to wait and see. really only district attorney bragg knows what the evidence
witnesses this grand jury heard from. and then one of the last ones. so, presumably, he was brought in to answer some more questions about stormy daniels and, brian, you mentioned the former playmate of the year karen macdougall who apparently from mr. pecker s national enquirer for the exclusive rights to her story. then they never ran that story. it s suggested that mr. becker was being called in along with others to corroborate the story that apparently there is a fact pattern there is a pattern with donald trump and these women. they will wind up with money and then they don t tell their story. brian: there s nothing illegal. ainsley: hush money is not illegal. prosecutors can argue improper donations to the trump s campaign. i m not sure how those two connect but maybe this will all unfold. class e felony has a potential to serve four years behind bars.
what is criminal, first of all, falsification of business records. if they falsely logged these payments as attorneys fee, that s a misdemeanor. if they can show the falsification happened in order to promote some other crime, and here that would be a campaign finance violation, then we re looking at a felony. a class e felony, the lowest level. there s a through e. there is no f. that would be a maximum of four years in prison. in class e, nonviolent, it s quite common for people to not get sent to prison at all. there will be testimony in the grand jury from robert costello. this is unusual to have someone go into a grand jury to present evidence on behalf of a defendant. he will try to undermine michael cohen. most likely he would enter through an underground. you won t see him going in.
to protect donald trump s political fortunes as opposed to personal embarrassment. it s important what prosecutors have to show here. if they end up only charging him with those misdemeanors, we ve heard this from a lot of house republicans, other republicans saying, oh. this is just a misdemeanor. why are they prosecuting this case? do you think it s worth still going forward if that ends up being the case? to be clear, a felony, class e, lowest level of felony if prove done in connection with the campaign finance crime. even if convicted would not go to prison. it will fuel the fire of critics and this conduct is far less serious than for example january 6th and less serious probably than seeing classified documents out of mar-a-lago. sort of unusual the least serious of the conduct seems to be the one that s likely to be charged first and in a way i think that will fuel opposition. stand by as we get more developments.
class e. however, it s quite common for people to get convicted of class e felonies and that s up to a judge. clearly, election season has begun. donald trump was in iowa attacking ron desantis who was also just in iowa. does the fact that trump has declared candidate, and the race is on is there any legal impact here? legally, there s no impact here. a person can run for office, sand even hold the office even if indicted and convicted but, jake, as a practical matter, this is going to make prosecutors jobs even more difficult. it s hard enough to get a jury of 12, unanimously, for the president who david chalian just showed is popular in some quarters. never minding a jury when a trial could happen in the middle of primaries to convict a person who is probably one of the leaders of a major party