this time next tuesday night if the schedule holds donald john trump child and product of new york will officially be defendant in a new york criminal matter. in our exclusive interview last hour with former vice president pence here s somebody told cnn s wolf blitzer about today s historic indictment. when you have an attorney general in new york manhattan, d a. that targeted one particular american in their campaigns. i think that offends the notion of the overwhelming majority of the american people who believe in fairness who believe in equal treatment before the law, and this appears to be just one more example. wolf. of the kind of two tiered justice system that the american people have had enough of it. that s the former vice president in our last hour in this hour of our live breaking historic coverage, a conversation with the one figure who has been key to first the scandal, then the investigation and now the charges against former president donald trump, his old bos
but he will have to appear in court will be fingerprinted and such and there are going to be pain there will be they will make painstakingly make sure that he is treated like any other type of defended. he will be photographed. he will be provided a room to talk to people in he will be brought before the judge will be read his charges. his lawyers will then be able to enter a plea for him, which by all indicate haitian, it appears he ll say he is not guilty and that he is going to fight these charges. and then of course, though, there is always the political side of this and the scene, it is manhattan and there s always a question of what donald trump and his supporters will be doing in there and to keep the focus on that proceeding in the courthouse, atlanta do we have reporting on what the mood is inside trump world? we do alison . i mean trump s team is scrambling day had been expecting potentially an indictment at some point, but i spoke with some of his advisers tonight,
that focus on the fact that george soros is jewish. there s a lot of nasty stuff began to swirl here against this d a against its prosecutor, and he needs to be defended and protected. want to thank my job. we find out what s actually going on. he needs to be defended the project. i think of my panel. our coverage continues right now. just about 10 p.m. here in manhattan, where the by this time next tuesday night if the schedule holds donald john trump child and product of new york will officially be defendant in a new york criminal matter. in our exclusive interview last hour with former vice president pence here s somebody told cnn s wolf blitzer about today s historic indictment. when you have an attorney general in new york manhattan, d a. that targeted one particular american in their campaigns. i think that offends the notion of the overwhelming majority of the american people who believe in fairness, who believe in equal treatment before the law, and this appears to be
Michael cohen trump s way of dealing with these stories, but because the payment was made by ami and as far as we know, wasn t reimbursed by trump or his organization or by michael cohen. i m not sure how it in and of itself becomes a charge and i think the relevance of it will be to show donald trump s knowledge knowledge of what was happening. his knowledge that this was a pattern happened, at least twice was stormy daniels and karen macdougal and they have to tie donald trump. to not just those payments, but to the way they were booked. i can t stress that enough. it s not about the donald trump know the hush money was paid it did he know that the records the internal records were falsified . that is the crux of the question. and perhaps the macdougal facts can help with this is where this is where the case ran into trouble, at least as far as we re told from people who are watching it in the grand jury, which is when robert costello, a former law partner of rudy giuliani. was under
Are that are giving their hard earned dollars for a guy who gets indicted. i m not sure i didn t see anybody throwing that kind of money. when i end up getting indicted makes no sense to me at all. however, we do have to acknowledge that he is a former president. and there is a certain amount despite whether he you think he should or should not receive that benefit. here s a former president of the united states, and there s a certain way that we should handle this. first of all, there s a whole slew of issues. yeah, he still has secret service protection, putting handcuffs on somebody who s in the custody and care of secret service is not simple, different than your experience. let s just say much different. i don t think he s going to be handcuffed, according to sources , they said he s going to have an expedited arrangement right because of the unusual circumstances. there will probably be the mug shot is still up in the air. there will be handcuffed. i believe he s going to have to