he even scowled during his arraignment. his aide and co-defendant walt nauta appeared with him in court. nauta not entering a plea to the six counts he faces because he did not have a local attorney. let s go now to cnn anchor and chief correspondent kaitlan collins who s in miami. trump is calling this one of the saddest days in the history of the country. it is a sad day, though, i m not sure in the same way he means it. give us your take. reporter: yeah, jake, and i think what you re seeing with that comment that trump posted as he was on his way here to this courthouse for that arraignment and the many others that he has posted online also shows, you know, not just what we ve been talking about here today which is the legal strategy and what that s going to look like, but the political strategy that you were seeing the president use when it comes to this visit and how they are going to be fund-raising off of it and using it as, of course, he tries to make his way throug
plus deepening legal roles with the former president, as amanda alvin bragg turns the screws on trump s former cfo. and later, our conversation with abortion providers here in new york as they prepare for the possible and of mifepristone, and another southern state passes a strict ban on most procedures. plus, the dreamers take on desantis in florida state capital, we will speak with two of them, they went to tallahassee to confront lawmakers face to face and more. this is american voices. we begin this hour with a fight over the nation s debt limit as the deadline to reach a deal is now less than two weeks away. it is a show down the world is closely watching. as house republicans threaten to use our economy as a pawn to force spending cuts. nbc news has learned a, quote, candid discussion on the desk limit house republicans stretched late into the night friday. however, house speaker kevin mccarthy nowsays that negotiations won t resume until president biden retur
manhattan d.a. alvin bragg turns the screws on trump s former cfo. and later, our conversation with abortion providers here in new york as they prepare for the possible and of mifepristone, and another southern state passes a strict ban on most procedures. plus, the dreamers take on desantis in florida state capital, we will speak with two of them, they went to tallahassee to confront lawmakers face to face and more. this is american voices. we begin this hour with a fight over the nation s debt limit as the deadline to reach a deal is now less than two weeks away. it is a show down the world is closely watching. as house republicans threaten to use our economy as a pawn to force spending cuts. nbc news has learned a, quote, candid discussion on the desk that limit between the white house and house republicans stretched late into the night friday. however, house speaker kevin mccarthy now says that negotiations won t resume until president biden returns to the u.s.. bac
those claims. what crime would that be? that would be defrauding the people who are contributing to that fund. is that wire fraud? just wire fraud. lying people to get their money s fraud, one of the basic things prosecutors charge every day. that is that wasn t in the target letter? no, but it has been in play. there is reporting people going into the granddaddy to talk about, that and that s something that s been on the radar for a long time, but we haven t really seen action on it. it s a fairly simple charge if they have the evidence, we will see what they come up with. sources tell cnn that one of the attorneys are scrambling to figure out what evidence and what witnesses. how are they going to do that? most dependence don t even know anything about a case until afterwards charged. the fact they know anything at all through the witnesses that they ve been paying their legal fees, and through reporting in the general six committee, it means for way ahead of the cur
i believe that is what, right now, the folks that are with him, steve bannon, i hear, is one of them, that they are all figuring out, how do we delay this? how do we delay this long enough that, if, in fact, i should win, as john had just previously said, that he will look to pardon himself, we ll, that works in the federal cases. it doesn t work in the state cases. meaning, the alvin bragg new york district attorney case, he cannot pardon himself. that is a state crime. the same thing will hold true for the georgia case, the fani willis georgia case. that too is a state crime. if he is indicted there. michael, look you know what it s like to be one of donald trump s attorneys. how hard is it for him to find good lawyers right now for all of these various cases? it s very difficult, and that s why he is surrounding himself with what we would probably have referred to as the dct.