, the venue for an american 1st 100 Center Street in Downtown Manhattan, playing host to a new chapter in u. S history. Today the arrest and arraignment of donald trump. Former President Trump is back in the city that made him famous. But this time to face a new reality, the first ever former president to Face Criminal Charges. Good afternoon to our viewers around the world. Im Anderson Cooper, new york and im jake tapper in washington, d c. Were just hours away from the opening gavel. Of the people of the state of new york versus donald j. Trump this is the scene, the Manhattan Criminal Courts complex for mr trump. Will surrender. Were told and then where prosecutors will drop and indictment spelling out multiple charges against him at this very moment, we still do not know exactly what those charges are and how many there are connected to mr trumps alleged scheme to buy the silence of adult film actress and director stormy, daniels said a pivotal 2016 campaign moment. As we come on a
been proven at times to be a lie, proven at times to be consistently false, he s consistently able to make that and get republicans, his rivals to rally around that this is the top of the hour, 2:00 in new york city, and we are going to take a pause, just for all of us to take a breath and remind you of what s happening here donald trump is now inside of the courthouse in lower manhattan. we expecting him to walk down that hallway, where you see that heavy security presence. he is going to go into a courtroom for an arraignment we re told it s likely to be around 30 charges. we do not know what those charges are. we do not know if they re going to be read aloud in court. we do not know how many pages this indictment will be. but we know that donald trump by now, presumably, has been fingerprinted. and he is under arrest as we talk about the implications of this day, politically, neil cottier, let me ask you about the legal argument we make here, in some cases we ve already
right now, our top story right here out of new york, alvin bragg is sweating even more than usual tonight. now, his pathetically weak case against former president trump has totally imploded. let s be very clear here, the case died this very week. it is very obvious, it is very clear, it s transparent, alvin bragg had every intention of indicting john all j trump this week, second day, grand jury proceedings canceled. telling reuters, it was former president donald trump that created false expectation of arrest. it was never actually going to happen according to bragg, it seems. really? after multiyear investigation, the formation of a grand jury, the da s meeting with law enforcement to create an impending arrest of a former president, and we re supposed to believe that somehow, donald trump created the false expectation of arrest. now the new york times, they reported, of course pulitzer prize reporting, they reported that criminal charges against trump were likely on mar
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poll. his age is the top reason. opinion page publishing this. joe biden is too old to be president again. the white house circling the wagons. we aren t going to pay attention to polls. not what we ll do here. we ll focus on is delivering for the american people. bill: the trend lines for the president heading in the wrong direction. approval rating on a downward slide since last year. the biggest concern among americans inflation. it continues to rise crushing americans every time they head out for groceries or gasoline. dana: former trump advisor kellyanne conway standing by. first mark meredith live at the white house. good morning to you. the white house says it is not focused on polling, interest groups and lawmakers running for reelection sure are. as you talked about the recent polling shows the president is facing political head winds here. he insists the country is in better shape than when he took office. the new york times says it its latest survey 64% o