made history of trump tower there on the left, gliding down the escalator and launching the campaign that would make him president on the right side of your screen that is former president donald trump on unaccompanied, walking down the stairs of the plane that returned him to new york and alleged criminal being arraigned tomorrow. his reception at trump tower is quiet as 2015 was flashy. no crowds inside just now private citizen moving rather quickly from his car to his residence tonight, the latest on what happened today and everything we know about tomorrow when he leaves trump tower heads downtown, and this country s 45th president becomes the first to face criminal charges. the exact charges still sealed. we know more about what the process will look like and how much of any of it we will get to see. we have correspondents and attorneys on all the angles tonight. cnn s jason carroll at trump towers, you know, shimon, procure pez and paula reid downtown with what awaits t
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threats continue to mount thanks very much. our team tonight is cnn chief correspondent kaylin collins and senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor elie honig, cnn political commentators david urban and van jones and cnn chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst john miller. katelyn polantz start with you. what s your sense of how the former president is thinking about this? he didn t really spend the weekend acting like someone who is about to be indicted. he was playing golf, having lunch with friends going to dinners and mar-a-lago. i think, though the fact that he has added a new defense attorney to his team the day before he s about to be around, does show that they are taking this seriously despite what they ve said about the merits of the case here, adding, someone which i was told happened literally today is when they added this new attorney. someone who has ellie knows him. well he has a good reputation. he has good credentials. he worked in the s d n y office.
as relates to the hush money payments. they re leaving themselves without a lot of safety net there, john just in terms of nypd secret service, or they obviously, i assume expecting there already been getting a lot of threats. what are they expecting? tomorrow? well, what they re looking out for is any demonstration that s larger than what they re tracking. where they re tracking so far is small crowds. small turnouts. um then there is the threat piece. the district attorney has received numerous threats. the d a s office has received threats. the courthouse building has received threats. they re assessing those in tracking those because those keep coming in what they what they have determined is they don t see any credible specific threats, although they ve gone out on a lot of investigations to talk to people who have posted things about what they think should happen to people and, you know, building guillotine z and you know, bringing guns and stuff like that so far, um, they re pre
former president steve jason miller. i think tweeted out that they ve raised from $7 million off this so far. we can t tell if that s a real number or not. how do you think this is impacting? his reputation. how people view did you really ask that question? how does he how is it impacting his reputation? well, i mean, look, anderson, there s been two polls out recently, right? the cnn poll out this morning and then recent quinnipiac poll, which both kind of said the same thing, right 62% of people in the quinnipiac poll found that this was politically motivated, right and 76% in the cnn, paul said they thought it was politically motivated, so it s not surprising that the trump team is out there trying to raise money off it and say, look, i ve had people call me up who despised the president and say this is kind of, you know bs, and i think you guys getting railroaded here, so they re going to raise a good deal of cash off this. i think they re going to you know, we talked about this ea