the 86 year old pontiff is receiving antibiotics for bronchitis infection. former us president donald trump is expected to surrender next tuesday in new york city after he was indicted on what sources say are more than 30 counts related to business fraud. a few dozen supporters gathered outside trump s florida home after the news broke late thursday. details of the charges remain sealed for the latest. here s cnn s along a train in washington. trump s team is scrambling. they were totally caught off guard on thursday, and even though they had been expecting a potential indictment for some time, they didn t think it was going to come this soon. now one of trump s advisers told me shortly after the indictment that they were blindsided by the timing they believed, like much of the media have been reporting on wednesday that the grand jury would be breaking for the religious holidays and potential indictment when income until mid april. but in recent days, i
6th attack on the u. s capital, as well as to federal criminal cases that grand juries in washington, d. c have been actively investigating and pursuing very high ranking witnesses to tell them their stories of what happened what they heard. and of with trump what their interactions with the former president were like those relating both to january 6th and the keeping of classified documents at mar-a-lago, his resort in florida after he left the presidency. he hasn t been charged in those they are quite mature investigations and donald trump is facing quite a lot of legal risk there that he is trying to stand down as well as he is going to be moving forward . as this case progresses in new york once we finally see the charges, and it is for a judge. katelyn polantz cnn washington. donald trump and his most vocal supporters in congress have said very little to refute the apparent facts of this case. instead, they argued that the indictment is politically motivated and without legal meri
republican senator lindsey graham. this is legal. budo you ve got a misdemeanor that s been made of felony. nobody in the history of new york city has ever been prosecuted under this theory, except for donald j. trump. this case will follow, like a cheap suit under legal scrutiny. give the president some money to fight this bull. this is going to destroy america . we re going to fight back at the ballot box. we re not going to give in. how does this end? sean trump wins in court and he wins the election. that s how this wins. cnn s christian homes, has the latest from washington. sources close to the former president. tell us that donald trump and his advisers down at mar-a-lago were blindsided by the timing of this indictment. now for the last two weeks, i ve been talking to a number of people close to the former president, who said they were ready for this potential indictment. essentially they were on pins and needles. but
thought that it would benefit him. politically in the long run. now what he s facing, though, is not an impeachment. it s a criminal indictment, and he s virtually no control over how this legal process will play out. elena treen, cnn washington . for more legal analysis. i m joined now by bernarda via nova , a criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor in new york. it s great to have you on the program. thanks so much for joining us. thank you for having me bianca. so let s begin with a simple question. what is next? now in this legal process? well the next step in this legal process for donald trump is that he s going to have to surrender, meaning that he will have to come from whether it s full order or wherever he situation situated to new york, and when he comes to new york he is going to be presented in front of a judge, but before he s even presented in front of a judge, he has to go to the rest process, which means that he has to be fingerprinted and photographed known as
charges that emanate from this, but what the justice department has done so far to get us to this point is really putting an emphasis on how close they believe they are to locking up this case, they believe that there was the advancing of a crime. it s quite significant, and evan corcoran really is the central person the central witness to the conversation. nations what was what donald trump was thinking and wanting to do, as the justice department was trying to get classified records that he had a mara lago back in their possession at the federal government and that they weren t just turning over all of the things that were there. caitlin, poland s cnn washington. police in new york scaled the side of a high rise building to prevent a crime suspect from jumping from the 31st floor. take a look at this. this is the moment when a police officer grappled from above and push the suspect back. inside a