to put it on tomorrow here we are expecting here over the next four days heightened security i saw alvin bragg, his motorcade depart there we ve got the criminal court building there where we expect donald trump to show up for this arraignment right next to you see the motorcade leading right next to the manhattan district court office they ve already got the fencing up and around there are, and security over the last week has been setting up. that was the initial story from jonathan dean. secret service has ingdicated they intend to try to keep donald trump out of the public eye as much as possible for obvious security concerns, but there s still a lot of question marks about what we can expect do we know because there was some discussion when donald trump first posted that he was going to be arrested, gary, that maybe for political purposes donald trump wanted the equivalent of a perp walk.
certainly from a criminal perspective there s been no accountability that he has faced until this point right, he hasn t and he needs to and this is the beginning of that process and donald trump is once he s arraigned he can bring a motion to dismiss the indictment. he can say it s persecution, it s nonsense, it s against the law, it s not constitutional, whatever arguments he wants to make, but he has to make them in court and they have to be based on something so all this rhetoric is just rhetoric but it s destructive of our system and disrespectful of our system we do not have we can t survive in a democracy if we have a system that s based on violence, on power, on the status of a person everyone has to be accountable under the law and they have to be treated fairly. donald trump will be treated fairly, but he can t put himself
back in 2018 cohen, trump s former lawyer and fixer, was ntenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to nine criminal counts including one related to the payment made to stormy daniels. cohen said he made that payment $130,000 at trump s direction. trump said cohen made it on his own. here s cohen responding to the criticism being levied against this specific case on cnn. i always call this the capone theory, the al capone theory they got him on tax evasion. if that crime, don, was enough for me to be charged, fined, convicted, and sent to prison why am i any different than donald trump back with me once again nbc s vaughn hilliard live from west palm beach, florida, which is not far from mar-a-lago. and gary, it s quiet it s nighttime behind you, but
his defendants have free speech rights, too, so they can say what they want, but they can t try to obstruct the process. they can t interfere with the process. the process will go forward, and donald trump s appointees on the u.s. supreme court will have a chance to review this as well as others you will have a fair process here, but it won t be fair if people try to bring bigotry as they are bigotry, stupidity and arrogance about the rule of law. nobody is above the law, not republicans and not democrats, not donald trump, not anybody. i ve known you for a long time we ve had a lot of conversations, but i saw a flash of anger in your eyes this weekend when you saw the imagery of donald trump with a baseball bat in a split screen. it was a post he reposted but took down probably because his lawyer told him to cynthia oxny she said, look, alvin bragg is probably not going to bring a charge related to that, but a judge will monitor what donald trump does
times is that individuals take some of what donald trump says to heart all you have to do is the hard work of putting a target on someone, don t actually have to do anything else that s exactly what scares me and that s why i wish at some point we have charges for the threats, and i m afraid. i m afraid for alvin bragg i m afraid for the individual prosecutors. i m afraid for the grand jurors, because what we found is people tend to be outed and threatened. i m afraid for them. i m afraid for the judge, and at some point there are going to be jurors in this case. in one of the cases coming up we re starting to have anonymous juries who have anything to do with donald trump because everybody s afraid of what s going to happen. and the reason for that is people live in this bubble and they forget that what s happened here in our country is that donald trump escaped any accountability for years and you can have whatever