continues. cnn primetime special inside the trump investigation starts now. a surreal moment. history made former president trump arrested and arraign cannot and will not normalized serious criminal conduct. 34 felony counts tied to alleged hush money payments felony crimes in new york state no matter who you are tonight, fact checking the former president s grievances. only crime that i have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it, comparing his charges to another infamous campaign finance case and answer the biggest questions. what s next for the manhattan case? this case is going to fall on its merits. well, before we get to a jury. what role does politics play in this prosecution as a nominee? would be much more difficult for a prosecutor to then go to trial and convict him and which of the other probes could imperil the former president? next this is the least of the legal troubles. we re seeing the special counsel making real strid
inside the trump investigation starts now. a surreal moment. history made former president trump arrested and arraign cannot and will not normalized serious criminal conduct. 34 felony counts tied to alleged hush money payments felony crimes in new york state no matter who you are tonight, fact checking the former president s grievances. only crime that i have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it, comparing his charges to another infamous campaign finance case and answer the biggest questions. what s next for the manhattan case? this case is going to fall on its merits. well, before we get to a jury. what role does politics play in this prosecution as a nominee? would be much more difficult for prosecutors to then go to trial and convict him and which of the other probes could imperil the former president? next this is the least of the legal troubles. we re seeing the special counsel making real strides. this is cnn prime time inside
you know, drink to a little bit done. great assignment, don have fun this morning continues right now. mike pence, headed to the witness stand and the boj s january 6th investigation. this would be the first time that a former vice president testifies about his former boss and criminal investigation. do you think that there will be more than he can shed light on, particularly when it comes to his conversations with the former president, having the vice president of united states with a special counsel under oath, i think adds enormous value. take our support for the people of taiwan seriously, the white house has tried to downplay the historic nature of the meeting, trying not to overreact, threatening to fight back of violation of its sovereignty. the speaker of the house, there is no place that china is going to tell me where i can go or who i can speak to. concern is mounting in the middle east after israeli police and palestinians clashed at one of islam s holiest sites d
the untested nature of this reason to believe that alvin bragg, who has been a prosecutor for more than 20 years, he said it during his press conference would bring a case that he did not believe that he could be successful. eating a conviction on and he didn t just say that the underlying case or the secondary crime i should say, relates to either state or federal campaign election violations. he also talked about new york state laws, and the indictment just has to put the defendant on noticed he doesn t have to tell his entire case in that indictment. and people may not like the fact that he didn t you know, lay out his entire case in the way that they would like for him to do, but that s not what new york law required him to do. it was a indictment to put trump unnoticed. there will be a discovery. there will be motions that will be filed in the between now and that next december, a date and we will learn more. about what that secondary crime is. but let me ask you this because you
about, um, when, when this case came on, michael cohen had one point of view and then went to another point of view. i m not sharing my political feelings here. i m just saying that the reality is there are so many comparisons of what we saw with the edwards case. so what would you need? to see if you were a juror in this case. what would you need to see from prosecutors to be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a felony was committed? i think that s a great question, and i think that s the one that everybody should be focused in on. the first thing i d want to see is a star witness that has some credibility and that credibility has to be backed up by facts. that s number one. the second thing i think is necessary is a you know, a jury comes in with we all have emotions. we all have feelings and opinions and