going to make comments on this later this evening. we don t know what form, whether he will answer questions, make a speech a combination of it. he s going to speak, a judge did not issue a gag order on any of this but advised him to watch his social media use. ahead of hearing from alvin bragg, and that could happen any minute, i do want to go to bryan llenas right now with what went down in there. again, courtesy, jake gibson as well in the courtroom to find out exactly what transpired. bryan? neil, yeah, we begin on the indictment. what we now know before d.a. alvin bragg speaks is that these are 34 felony counts for falsifying business records in new york. in the indictment, the first line reads, the defendant donald trump repeatedly and fraud leaptedly falsified new york business records to conceal criminal conduct that had damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election. those are the counts that it goes on and on at this point. we
in case i rudely interrupt any of the great minds assembled to talk with us, in a matter of minutes, alvin bragg is expected to address this newly unveiled indictment, indicting donald j. trump. this is thfirst time we ve heard from him since trump turned himself in this afternoon. while we wait, a lot is happening at this moment, including developments in the last few minutes we now have our hands on the actual indictment. it s a doozy it s just been unsealed. people are still going through it, processing it, and it s been made public. you can read along with us if you want to. importantly it includes 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election we understand, thank to our nbc news colleagues, there s a courtroom with trump himself, in his own voice, pleaded not guilty today the former president is on his way to laguardia airport, he s going to fly for mar-a-lago, blah, blah, blah purchasers shared a number of examples of o
records and were concealing criminal conduct. the earlier question about new york state election law, conspiracy to promote candidacy by unlawful means. those means we allege include the conduct set forth in the statement of facts, which is, you know, additional false statements, separate and apart from the charge in ami documents. planned false statements to taxing authorities. it is not just that one $130,000 wire payment. thanks so much. neil: all right. alvin bragg laying out his case. this case was different that was rejected by cyrus vance, the district attorney of new york before him and the federal election commissions that saw no there there and didn t want to pursue this case. he opted otherwise and hence the
witnesses, all of that will be borne out in a public courtroom in downtown manhattan. [ inaudible question ] reporter: released from your office mentioned another woman, can you comment how those players are related? i m glad you put your finger on that. it s not just about one payment. it is 34 business records, 34 false statements and business records, conceals criminal conduct. the earlier question about new york state election law, talking about conspiracy, to promote a candidacy by unlawful means. those national means we allege include the conduct set forth in the statement of facts, which is additional false statements, planned false statements of