charges against him impact the 2024 race. he said he will plead and he pled not guilty to charges and came only hours after she was indicted. take a listen. donald trump: the only crime i ve commit side to fearlessly deupon fended our nation. radical left lunatics want to interfere by using law enforcement. we can t let that happen. this is a persecution, not an investigation. the 34-count indictment released late yesterday accuses trump of falsifying document to hide hush money payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign. it is alleged from august 2016 to 2017, trump organized catch and kill through false business entries. one instance $30,000 was paid to a dar doorman. alvin bragg spoke with the media detailing his case and told reporters he is keved in what they have found as previous das and previous prosecutors declined to go after the charges. i m doing this for 24 years and i m no stranger to rigorous, complex investigations. i bring cases when they re re
arraignment wraps inside that manhattan courtroom. as i said, that image you see on the right-hand side of your screens with the president and his attorneys as he sits at the defendant s table in the courtroom just moments ago. so obviously as we have said quite a bit today, but it s worth repeating, this is a historic moment. we have never seen this before in the united states of america. a former president under indictment, under arrest and now being charged with 34 counts of felonies. former attorney general bill barr is standing by with us, brit hume is also here to weigh-in momentarily. first we go to bryan llenas who is live at the courthouse where we expect shortly the president will be exiting soon. hi, bryan. hi, martha. that s exactly right. two big questions right now ahead of us. when will the former president come out. should be any moment. will he say anything to the cameras. what will he say now that he knows the charges. the second question is, knowing more
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
ignored. it gets worse hunter and joe everyday, it is unlikely he will be held accountable. on the campaign trail, your president joe biden repeatedly denied again and again and again discussing foreign business dealings with his son hunter. ashley: lauren blanchard is live with morning. lauren: president biden landed in ireland, the trip is political and his sister valerie owens biden and son hunter biden are with him. fox news digital reporting found while joe biden was in office, a vice president and assist antss of his firm visited the white house more than 80 times during the obama administration. this is what president biden said when asked about knowledge of his son s business dealings. mr. vice president, how many times have you ever spoken to your son about his overseas business dealings. i ve never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings, never discussed with my son or brother or anyone else anything having to do with their businesses, period.
honest with signs of the times in the political climate today running the gamut from the downright dangerous, merely troubling, to the absurd. it is fair to ask if there is a thread connecting all of them. some kind of political philosophy driving it or whether this is just a moment for whatever reason that is ripe for almost everything and nearly anything. one example in new mexico four homes shot at belonging police say to democratic elected officials. the man now in custody and charged in connection with the crimes a republican who lost his state house race in a landslide then refused to concede. he seemed agitated. he seemed a little aggressive to me. i didn t consider him a threat then. but he was upset that he had lost the election. that is debby o malley who joins us shortly and says police said her home was hit 12 times maybe more. she is talking about the man in custody solomon pena who tweeted just after the election, quote, trump just announced for 2024. i stan