ahead. it was a busy night and you are waking up to history. america waking up to the historic news that president donald j. trump has been indicted. he is the very first president. we ve never seen this before in history. so here s the latest on this friday, march, 31st 2023 sources tell cnn trump faces more than 30 counts related to business fraud. this case prosecuted by the manhattan district attorney centers around the accounting of hush money payments made to adult film star stormy daniels. as of now, this is how it s supposed to go down because multiple sources say trump will turn himself in next tuesday. he is expected to appear in court for his arraignment in new york. the nypd getting ready for any sign of trouble. all officers are being told to report to work in uniform people prepared for deployment today. meanwhile republicans in the house senate and even some 2024 rivals are rushing to trump s defense, calling the case political and outrage and even one of them
ahead. it was a busy night and you are waking up to history. america waking up to the historic news that president donald j. trump has been indicted. he is the very first president. we ve never seen this before in history. so here s the latest on this friday, march, 31st 2023 sources tell cnn trump faces more than 30 counts related to business fraud. this case prosecuted by the manhattan district attorney centers around the accounting of hush money payments made to adult film star stormy daniels. as of now, this is how it s supposed to go down because multiple sources say trump will turn himself in next tuesday. he is expected to appear in court for his arraignment in new york. the nypd getting ready for any sign of trouble. all officers are being told to report to work in uniform people prepared for deployment today. meanwhile republicans in the house senate and even some 2024 rivals are rushing to trump s defense, calling the case political and outrage and even one of them saying quo
attorney will start speaking about this. it s probably not about everything, but at some point he s going to have to answer questions. and this is the big question because in the court of public opinion, the former president his allies are seizing on. this is politically motivated, but it could be that there is new evidence or some other reason that caused this to all come to a head. now that arraignment where the d a will ask for the indictment to be unsealed, and then we ll find out what s in there once he has granted that, but again in a clip, it se last night, you said. he s gonna be treated. they re trying to treat him just like anyone else, except they ll probably expedite his arraignment. when he sees a judge. he probably won t be in a lock up and i said no fingerprinting earlier. definitely fingerprinting. but possibly no mug shot is what, but we still we don t know it s unprecedented, couldn t start the negotiations until there was a possible indictment and i was told, look, t
him in within 24 to 48 hours of the indictment. um they are trying to maintain this posture , the manhattan district attorney s office that he would be treated like any other defendant. you ve been charged. and unless you know we re not going to go arrest you, but you have to present yourself. relatively quickly so they haven t changed that posture. tuesday is relatively quickly. you know you have a defendant who s in florida who s also as you point out under protection of the united states. secret service, um and you know who has stated tell me when and where and i ll be there. i just said, i wonder if wanting him to come right away on friday as bragg s office did today is also you know to not give time for a lot of people to mobilize to come to the city. but who knows? look, let me ask about your reporting last night. just fantastic. i was watching as you broke the news. fantastic reporting that this indictment, um is large, maybe not detailed unless it s a speaking indictment, but l
, knowing the security concerns now, while those entities will be working on security in terms of law enforcement, we know that trump s team will be looking at the optics as we know former president trump cares about the optics. i ve talked to a number of sources who say they re trying to figure out exactly what this looks like. from a media standpoint. where will the cameras be? where will trump be walking? is he able to give a statement? should he give a statement? is it safe to stand out there and give a statement now i am told by a number of sources who have spoke to trump in the last 24 hours that his demeanor has been relatively controlled. that he went to dinner with melania in front of guests and greeted them at mar-a-lago last night that he met with advisers and as we reported last night, several members of trump s team and the former president himself did feel blindsided by the timing of this indictment. they had spent weeks on edge getting ready for this, but they had seen t