President trump. But she is not expected to endorse trump today. Her folks who are familiar with what shes going to say, say she is going to go ahead and say that trump needs to earn the support of those voters. She has repeatedly said throughout the entire course of her campaign that the Republican Party needs to be a party of addition, and she doesnt believe that trump has been approaching his campaign. That way. She has talked about the fact that she wants to give her for voters an option thats why she stayed on the ballot through Super Tuesday. But this was a decision that she made last night as her campaign was monitoring the results that were coming in. Jeff zeleny spoke with a source, an aide on the campaign, who said that it was when they were monitoring those results that they determined that she wasnt going to hit the benchmarks that they had said that she wasnt going to do well enough to keep her Campaign Alive. Now, we should note that nikki haley did win two states, dc and
latest. we re going to get to everyone there, but let s begin first this hour with cnn correspondent keira scannell, who s outside that manhattan courthouse. keira we start with you because we want you to walk us through what happens now. good morning, jim and jessica s so now we understand from sources that former president trump is expected to be arraigned on tuesday. that means he will surrender. they will work out of time because of the big security issues around a former president coming to appear in court, so there s going to be discussions about security. they will set a time for him to come and surrender and he will surrender to the building behind me around the corner where the d a s office is there he will be processed, just like any other defendant. he will have a mug shot taken. he will be fingerprinted. he ll be read his rights. then, at some point, he will be brought down to the judge and that courtroom where the judge will read the police the charges to him and
ahead with in the aftermath of this indictment news, kevin mccarthy, the house speaker, made it very clear he called us an unprecedented abuse of power . steve scalise, the number two republicans said it was weaponizing the government to attack their political opponents. the at least a phonic , who is also a member of republican leadership called an unprecedented election interference and jim jordans, who is the house judiciary committee chairman investigating alvin bragg, called it outrageous. none of these republicans and nobody else has no have any idea what is the charges here or any of the evidence, but they are rushing very, very clear that they are on trump s side. what has been also notable is the silence coming from top senate republicans mitch mcconnell, john dune, nothing one and two senate republicans have yet to issue any statement them to, of course, are eager to move. past the trump era and have not aligned themselves with donald trump the way that house republican leade