continues. cnn primetime special inside the trump investigation starts now. a surreal moment. history made former president trump arrested and arraign cannot and will not normalized serious criminal conduct. 34 felony counts tied to alleged hush money payments felony crimes in new york state no matter who you are tonight, fact checking the former president s grievances. only crime that i have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it, comparing his charges to another infamous campaign finance case and answer the biggest questions. what s next for the manhattan case? this case is going to fall on its merits. well, before we get to a jury. what role does politics play in this prosecution as a nominee? would be much more difficult for a prosecutor to then go to trial and convict him and which of the other probes could imperil the former president? next this is the least of the legal troubles. we re seeing the special counsel making real strid
inside the trump investigation starts now. a surreal moment. history made former president trump arrested and arraign cannot and will not normalized serious criminal conduct. 34 felony counts tied to alleged hush money payments felony crimes in new york state no matter who you are tonight, fact checking the former president s grievances. only crime that i have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it, comparing his charges to another infamous campaign finance case and answer the biggest questions. what s next for the manhattan case? this case is going to fall on its merits. well, before we get to a jury. what role does politics play in this prosecution as a nominee? would be much more difficult for prosecutors to then go to trial and convict him and which of the other probes could imperil the former president? next this is the least of the legal troubles. we re seeing the special counsel making real strides. this is cnn prime time inside
this, do you see that trend continuing to see when those numbers come out? you know they ve inflated numbers before, but it certainly seems as if things have driven toward him. he s really motivating those activists base of the republican class and really trying to drive that energy to your point. they have created a whole victimhood narrative around this campaign that this indictment speaks to and we should remember. as we talked about this political calendar, there could be more and there s still more investigations. there could be more indictments in the future, which would allow the him to continue to block out the sun from those other candidates that nikki haley s of the world. the ron desantis is of the world have not shown the willie in this to really use this to directly attack donald trump because they do not believe there is space to do so among enough of the republican electorate, even the folks who aren t supporting donald trump but who are remain. republicans have largely
and also claims that the indictment helps him politically . tonight one of donald trump s legal allies joins us live also we ll hear from a former federal judge on whether to expect a gag order as trump attacks the new york judge. plus you ll hear from the jury foreman who acquitted john edwards in a similar campaign finance trial, hear what he has to say and joining me live and studio a panel of great voices to analyze and make sense of this all, but we began with the news involving mike pitts. katelyn polantz joins us now live so kaitlin there s some big news out about this that our team is reporting when it comes to the special counsel investigation and testimony that had to do with seizing voting machines, right. that s right. so with mike pence , the former vice president, he announced today through a spokesperson that he is not going to appeal a court order saying yes to testify to a grand jury. pamela what that means is that he will be appearing before a federal grand jury in dc
regard to an election. that s over. um i mean, i guess i could understand that if you charge it in the context of a conspiracy, but this indictment doesn t charge conspiracy. it charges 34. substantive counts. of books and records violations in which that what is charged is that it was with the intent, um to commit another offense and that other offense, you know, parenthetically, i don t think can be a federal election campaign act violation because, although it s not been quite tested yet, in this context, there seems to be at least some law out there from the second department, which is another jurisdiction within new york state. other than manhattan to the effect that other crime refers to other state crimes in new york state, not other states of the union and certainly not federal crimes, which would include the federal government and the federal election campaign act. so i m just gonna stop you right there because we have limited time and i want to get to you instead and tom, but