good evening, everyone. i m alison camerata, and this is cnn tonight an unprecedented moment in u. s history. former president donald trump indicted by a grand jury in new york. it s the first time that a current or former u. s president has faced criminal charges. the indictment is under seal tonight , but more information will be announced in the coming days. sources tell cnn that the former president is facing more than 30 counts related to business fraud , defiant donald trump, issuing an angry statement tonight calling this political persecution. let s turn right away to cnn correspondent kara scannell and cnn s senior crime and justice reporter katelyn polantz keira. what happens next? well alison next. we expect that on tuesday, the former president is expected to come here to new york to go into the courthouse behind me and be arraigned on these charges. now that day, we will also expect to have the indictment unsealed. then we will learn the specifics . what are the
strong statement that they are going to fight these charges in court. they have been critical of the manhattan district attorney, alvin bragg, saying that there was no crime committed here. alison okay, caitlin. obviously this is not the only investigation of donald trump. do we know if there was any coordination between the d a in manhattan and the others in terms of the timing here? we don t right now, and it would be very unusual for there to be. usually the federal investigators were quite separately from even other federal investigators, let alone the state investigation as far as we know about these other investigations that donald trump is facing serious legal jeopardy on a lot of different fronts. now he has these charges that he is going to have to face in new york in manhattan. that s a state case, but there are also two very significant federal cases as well as the state. jason georgia, potentially that could be brought against him. we know he is under investigation, and it