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
records of falsifying business records. i never thought anything like this could happen in america. virtually everybody that has looked at this case including rhinos and hardcore democrats say there is no crime and that it should never have been brought, everybody said this. it is not really an indictment, there is nothing here. my lawyers came to me and said there is nothing here they re not even saying what you did. a number of legal analysts questioning the foundations of the case against trump calling it weak and a overreach. they point out that the indictment is facing a key requirement, that would be the crime that would make it a felony. some in the media think the case will struggle to hold up. what is the crime that prosecutors are alleging es escalating this to a crime? if this is the only pebble being thrown at donald trump, it is very small. where is the beef? i talked to a lot of lawyers, none of them lawyers or trump supporters, and they said it is a l
there and children of friends and there. he treated it as his own little playpen. of course when he stepped down from being vice president, he was paid almost $1 million. tthe biden administration put hs name on that and in return, i suppose his name attracted a lot of chinese money, the amount of money that came in from china to the university after joe biden opened that think tank. quadrupled, almost quadrupled. it went from about 20 million to almost $75 million. so you have to look at quid pro quo there. todd: james comer taking over the oversight committee just launched an investigation into all of this and he is here to tell us all about it hoping to get with lucas tomlinson in washington with all the details, lucas. good morning todd and carley. president biden commenting on the classified documents for the first time publicly on his trip to mexico city. people know i take classified documents and classified information seriously. i was grouped ab briefed abou
is the most nontransparent. lucas tomlinson. president biden: i was briefed and surprised to learn any government records were taken to that office. i don t know what is in the documents. top republican on the house intel committee want to look at the documents similar to the one adam schiff wanted for the documents found at former president trump s mar-a-lago estate. there are numerous reports that vice president biden removed and retained highly classified information at undisclosed nongovernment office in washington and his democratic counterpart mark warner says he wants to be briefed on what happen at mar-a-lago and biden office as part of oversight obligation. new speaker of the house kevin mccarthy, wants answers. the hypocrisy, they have gotten away with so much for so long, this was discovered before the last election, just like the laptop. the classified documents were discovered six days before the midterm election and biden says he was told not to ask what