good evening, everyone. i m alison camerata. welcome to cnn tonight. we continue our live coverage of the historical day of a former president being arrested and arraigned this afternoon, donald trump faced 34 felony counts for falsifying business records in connection with the hush money payments to adult film star stormy daniels. hours later, and aggrieved donald trump appeared in front of a very friendly mega outfitted proud at mar-a-lago. i never thought anything like this. could happen in america never thought it could happen. the only crime that i have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it. from there, he went on to spout his usual litany of lies and grievances. but that was the only part of today that was familiar. everything else we ve never before seen a former u. s president under arrest and walking into a courtroom sitting , with his defense team, having to answer to charges just as any other criminal defendants would so now
protesters, 100 of them anti trump 50 pro trump. marjorie s out there. i guess jorge santos made an appearance as well. um and then congresswoman green didn t interview where she then compared former president to nelson mandela and jesus christ . on the day that martin luther king jr was shot. let s just add that participate hollywood actually, the interview i was told by a republican operative was with her boyfriend. he actually was. the person conducting the interview happens to be a podcast. telegrams? yes, you have a husband. she did. she did just that. i can t tell you got it is intriguing. gonna keep getting more bizarre, but i think you know it speaks to they feel energized and another network tonight, lindsey graham was on begging viewers if you have $4.03 dollars donated to donald trump. it s working. by the way. i mean, they have raised millions. we don t know exactly how many because we can t necessarily trust the trump team to give us the exact
um but it s worth reiterating that this is a very harmful trend in american life. one person who has used violent rhetoric against various elected officials as well as other people is the congresswoman from georgia, marjorie taylor grand. she announced that she was coming to new york to stage a protest in support of donald trump. she did that, but she was greeted by counter protesters today and she beat an extremely hasty retreat away from her protest. she had gone there to try to speak out in terms of donald trump and xi. yeah i was able to for a few minutes, and then she was shouted down by again counter protesters, and that s her basically retreating because this is new york city. it is in georgia. it s not. it s not the home stadium. it was interesting. i mean for as calm as things were inside the sort of circus outside, right, so we had a reporter out there. then they counted about 300 media 300 journalists about 100 and 50