Live from washington, im paula reid in for jim acosta. You are in the cnn newsroom. Former President Trump is pushing back on the new criminal charges hes facing. The former president took to social media today to deny that Security Footage from maralago was deleted, but thats not what prosecutors have accused here. They allege that he was part of an attempt to delete the footage. Prosecutors say a maralago property manager, Carlos De Oliveira, urged another employee to scrub the footage, saying that, quote, the boss, aka trump, wanted the entire server deleted. De oliveira is accused of lying to investigators about moving classified documents at the resort, and the indictment alleges that the desire to have this footage deleted was all aimed at trying to conceal critical information from investigators. De oliveira is due in federal Court Tomorrow morning. Trump also says that the footage was voluntary handed over. Thats also not true. It was subpoenaed. This weekend, trump has been on
on this point. i am quoting here, we cannot except former president trump s claim that a president has unbounded authority to commit crimes. and we neutralize the most fundamental check on the executive power, in recognition, an implementation of election results. and going on to say, nor can we sanctioned his apparent contention that the executive has carte blanche to violate the rights of individual citizens to vote, and to have their votes count. the court throwing out trump s arguments that he should not have to go on trial, on federal election subversion charges. charges that you would expect, vowing to appeal to the supreme court. but he only has until monday to decide whether he can do that. let s talk right now with cnn analyst, norm eisen, and prosecutor, joe moreno. i m so happy that both of you are here today. first of all, we have been talking about this for the better part of a month, norm. the fact that it took this long, it s perhaps a surprising announcement.
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in new york. much of california is under a state of emergency this afternoon, and mandatory evacuations are under way in parts of monterrey county on the central coast. a short time ago we received drone video of a levee that failed this morning. as you can see, the waters rushed through the breach and into a nearby neighborhood. the floodwaters have washed away roads and bridges and cut off some communities in the area. this is new video. we also have coming in from springville, where many have lost their homes and belongings in that area. california s reeling from its tenth atmospheric river of the winter in the central and northern parts of the state. it s dumping huge amounts of rain and snow on the ground that is already saturated. cnn s mike valerio joins us. you spoke to a county supervisor a short time ago there. what have you learned? reporter: well, he told us, jim, that there are hundreds of people now in shelters
here s the very latest developments. a manhattan grand jury indicting trump on more than 30 counts related to business fraud stems from the hush money case involving stormy daniels before the 2016 election sources tell cnn trump is expected to turn himself in on tuesday and be arraigned in new york city. the nypd is on high alert this morning. every member of the force has been told to report in uniform today as a precaution. meanwhile in washington, house speaker kevin mccarthy and other house republicans are rallying around trump blasting the indictment as a political attack. and as of this morning, president biden has not weighed in on the indictment, not a surprise there. we ll see what he says. we have all the latest reporting cnn this morning. special live coverage starts right now. very early on this friday morning and look at the papers you got was worried this morning when i left at the papers would not be ready. but they are yesterday. you and i were talking about h
ahead. it was a busy night and you are waking up to history. america waking up to the historic news that president donald j. trump has been indicted. he is the very first president. we ve never seen this before in history. so here s the latest on this friday, march, 31st 2023 sources tell cnn trump faces more than 30 counts related to business fraud. this case prosecuted by the manhattan district attorney centers around the accounting of hush money payments made to adult film star stormy daniels. as of now, this is how it s supposed to go down because multiple sources say trump will turn himself in next tuesday. he is expected to appear in court for his arraignment in new york. the nypd getting ready for any sign of trouble. all officers are being told to report to work in uniform people prepared for deployment today. meanwhile republicans in the house senate and even some 2024 rivals are rushing to trump s defense, calling the case political and outrage and even one of them