neil: he s the prosecutor in this case. earlier this afternoon, donald trump was arraigned on a new york supreme court indictment, returned by a manhattan grand jury on a 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. under new york state law it is a felony to falsify business records with intent to defraud an intent to conceal another crime. that is exactly what this case is about. 34 false statements, made to cover up other crimes. these are felony crimes in new york state no matter who you are. we cannot and will not normalize serious conduct. the defendant repeatedly made false statements on new york business records. he also caused others to make false statements. the defendant claimed that he
and things get dragged out legally. that seems like a long time away when we re talking the holiday season. december. at the end of this year. neil: yeah. wild stuff. david, thanks very much for that. david spunt. we ve been showing you the president. he left new york, leaving the courthouse and going back to palm beach international airport. that s where he will park his plane. it s close to mar-a-largo from where he hopes to address the nation tonight or at least report his questions. i m not aware of how this is going to transpire and what he s going to say or do. ashley webster following those developments. what do we know about the president s plans tonight? what he s going to say, exactly where he s going to say it, will it be a q&a format, will it be a speech? what? given donald trump s past history, neil, i imagine it s
presidential election, michael cohen wired $130,000 to stormy daniels lawyer. that payment was to hide damaging information from the voting public. the participants scheme was illegal. the scheme violated new york election law, which makes it a crime to conspire with to promote a candidacy by unlawful means. the $130,000 wire payment exceeded the federal campaign contribution cap and the false statements in ami s books violated new york law. that is why mr. trump made false statements about his payments to mr. cohen. he could not say that the payments were reimbursement for mr. cohen s payments so stormy daniels.
authorities will take his mug shots and fingerprints before escorting him to his arraignment . nypd and secret service already working together to bolster security at the courthouse as they track any threats and possible protests, the indictment still under seal. styled the people of the state of new york against donald j. trump cnn learning the grand jury voted to charge him with more than 30 counts related to business fraud after hearing from an unidentified witness for about 30 minutes thursday. i am a convicted felon. i am a disbarred lawyer, but i also brought the documents. there s plenty of testimony corroborating testimony to go around. former trump fixer michael cohen met with prosecutors and testified to the grand jury and multiple occasions in this year s long investigation. right hand was convicted on federal charges and sentenced to three years in prison in part for his role paying off porn star stormy daniels to keep her quiet in the lead up to the 2016 election about her
so very active period. ongoing wolf very active indeed. will stay on top of it. derek, stay safe. over there. thank you very much. let s go now to the historic security preparations underway in new york for former president trump s arraignment, our senior crime and justice correspondent shimon prokupecz has more on the extensive operation. with an unprecedented indictment comes immense security challenges the nypd along with court officers, us marshals and the united states, secret service are running through logistics of how tuesday s historic arraignment of the former president will go down. tonight law enforcement sources telling cnn officials are conducting a dry run of trump s movements, including his motorcade route to the courthouse in downtown manhattan , where he is expected to be arraigned tuesday afternoon how he will get inside the courtroom, flanked by secret service. and what will the arrest process look like? will