former federal prosecutor paul krieger is here. former senate candidate joe pinyon, former secret service agent jonathan wackrow, and joining us is cnn s joanie o sullivan. who as we far as we know, is not form or anything, um okay, guys, great to have you all here. jonathan tell us about secret service and what? how they re preparing tonight and how they can possibly be everywhere and cover this unprecedented event. tomorrow we ll listen to secret service tomorrow plays an interesting role. it s not what we typically see them playing. they re not playing the lead role. the nypd is the lead organizing entity for the security operation tomorrow. the secret service is keenly focused only on donald trump getting him safely from trump tower down to the courthouse and then whether it s back to trump tower or to the airport safely and efficiently, but they re not taking that coordinating role. and there s a reason why here alison because the secret service has to show that they are
in trump tower tonight in the midst of a massive security presence in new york city. here with me on our panel. we have vanity fair s molly jong fast. former federal prosecutor paul krieger is here. former senate candidate joe pinyon, former secret service agent jonathan wackrow, and joining us is cnn s donie o sullivan, who as we far as we know is not form or anything, um okay, guys. great to have you all here. jonathan tell us about secret service and what? how they re preparing tonight and how they can possibly be everywhere and cover this unprecedented event. tomorrow we ll listen to secret service tomorrow plays an interesting role. it s not what we typically see them playing. they re not playing the lead role. the nypd is the lead organizing entity for the security operation. tomorrow the secret service is keenly focused only on donald trump getting him safely from trump tower down to the courthouse and then whether it s back to trump tower or to the airport safely and
course. it s also not true that this has never been charged before. it s never been to a former president. that s true, however, as the new york times reports the false business records charge, which is what people specked with this. is the bread and butter of the district attorney s white color practice. mr bragg took office in 2022. since then, prosecutors have filed 117 felony counts of that charge against 29, individuals and companies that is not never charged before. i think there s a distinction that s important to make what we understand the charges are going to be our falsification of books and records in order to commit some kind of election or campaign finance fraud. right, so that is unclear about how often that s been charged the fact that falsifications of books and records are charged regularly. no surprise. those are often misdemeanors. but this is the felony charges have been filed 117 felony charges, so it has to be connected to another crime. in other words, here, it
charged before in all caps hates me. um which you know, could obviously insight some feelings about that judge. of course. it s also not true that this has never been charged before. it s never been to a former president . that s true, however, as the new york times reports the false business records charge, which is what people specked with this. is the bread and butter of the district attorney s white color practice. mr bragg took office in 2022. since then, prosecutors have filed 117 felony counts of that charge against 29, individuals and companies that is not never charged before. i think there s a distinction that s important to make what we understand the charges are going to be our falsification of books and records in order to commit some kind of election or campaign finance fraud. right so that is unclear about how often that s been charged the fact that falsifications of books and records are charged regularly. no surprise are often misdemeanors. but this is the felony charg