to be held anywhere in america, it s good that it s being held in new york because the nypd is probably the most capabilities of any police department in the country to handle the unexpected and you do you guys at the nypd do an amazing job every year during the united nations general assembly when delegations are coming in from all over the world, and security is enormous. i ve covered those events for many, many years. l eau spent years working in the plaza where this courthouse is located. can you give us a sense of just how heavily secured this part of new york city is? this is one of the most secure few acres you will find anywhere on the planet. if you stand in the middle of that plaza, you will be surrounded by one police plaza where commissioner bratton used to have his headquarters, which is the headquarters of the entire nypd by federal and state prisons by federal and state prosecutors. offices by heavily fortified courthouses by 26 federal plaza, which is the home base of t
very few seconds. go in. the arrangement will be quick and then they have planned the route back. here is the wild card, which is they ve got his in. they ve got his out and they ve got their time schedule that will be briefed to obviously his secret service detail. it was a part of these meetings but also to his his attorneys, and then they re going to decide. is he going to leave the courthouse and hold a press conference later uptown? is he going to do one outside the courthouse? that s still up in the air. but right now they re plan is to bring him in, bring him out and take them either to the airport or back to trump tower. i m really happy to bill bratton is joining us right now as well. commissioner you served as the nypd commissioner, every member of the police department and you know this? well some 35,000 police officers are reporting for duty in uniform. now how is the department preparing for these unprecedented next few days? well the only thing that s unprecedented about
felt safe there. i always felt secure there, and the other thing is anybody who s thinking about going down there and causing trouble or committing any crime ought to take a lesson from the now over 1000 people who have been prosecuted for january six hundreds and hundreds of those people are in prison right now for what they did. part of the reason for those prosecutions is to send a deterrent message. don t even try it. and i hope people take that to heart. commissioner bratton. we re already seeing increasingly heated rhetoric as you well know, from the former president and his supporters all across the country. how is that fueling concerns about security risk potential security risks in new york? well uh, mirroring the events of january 6th with the red out brother president and some of his supporters really got that crowd inflamed and encouraged to taxi capital. uh rhetoric here is going to be very important. uh i ve already understand that the number of members of congress they r
some of them are planning to come up to new york and make fools of themselves and but their rhetoric has the potential to gin up their followers and reminded of the jock well is alive and well with paris plate and the song send in the clowns . well you re going to see a number of clowns coming up from washington to basically try to get in front of your cameras next week to stir up that rhetoric. i would hope most americans would understand exactly what it is. it is rhetoric and to basically pay no attention to it. potentially dangerous rhetoric indeed, alright, commissioner bratton. thank you very much. john miller. paula reid. eliana guys don t go too far away. we re staying on top of all of these developments up next. the outrage from many congressional republicans right now to donald trump s indictment, some calling it outrageous and an abuse of power. we ll get a live report from capitol hill as lawmakers are scrambling to come to trump s defense. plus we ll have the latest on that
The following is a transcript of a panel with CBS News legal analyst Rikki Klieman, former New York City police commissioner Bill Bratton and CBS News chief election and campaign correspondent Robert Costa, that aired on "Face the Nation" on Sunday, March 26, 2023.