arraignment for former president trump. good morning, everybody. hope the weekend was grand. dana has the day off today. welcome back to our friend from washington aishah. aishah: historic week here in new york city. this is america s newsroom. right now the former president is getting ready to depart palm beach, florida, for new york city. that is where he will be arraigned on a reported 34-count indictment related to hush money payments made in the run-up to the 2016 election. the former president flies to new york at noon eastern. tomorrow at 11 eastern is arriving at the courthouse. aishah: the hearing to last 15, 30 minutes. after that he will head back to mar-a-lago and give a televised address at 8:15 eastern. bill: the nypd says it has been put on high alert. officers putting up barriers and closing streets. we ll see whether or not that s necessary in the end. they get ready to move a former u.s. president in and out of that courthouse swiftly and safely.
in the faulkner focus. it will be a kwik trip as you know to new york city from where he is in florida. facing charges related to the stormy daniels hush money case. he is set to be at the courthouse tomorrow in manhattan at 11:00 a.m. his arraignment begins at 2:15 eastern. it may take as few as 15 minutes. after that trump will head back to mar-a-lago and planning a speech tomorrow night. however we re learning the judge could take an extraordinary step of imposing a gag order on the former president and 2024 contender. trump s legal team is considering adding a first amendment attorney to fight that if they try to put a gag order on him. they will be ready to fight that if necessary. many republicans continue to attack the indictment. one democrat who voted to impeach trump has his own concerns. i think people need to ask themselves the fundamental question. if this were anyone but trump would this d.a. even take up this case? it feels obvious to a lot of us that it is
as we wait this today. good morning, everybody. 9:00 in new york. i m bill hemmer. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. it is good to be with you again. secretary mayokas will go before the house homeland security committee at the top of the hour and appeared before the senate yesterday. it reignited republican calls to remove him from office. he said the expiration of title 42 that begins in may will fuel a surge of illegal crossings. one estimate putting the number at 11,000 a day. mayokas did not dispute that number. dana: lawmakers pressed him on reports that migrant children are being forced to work at factories and slaughterhouses. watch here. have you seen this report from the new york times migrant children work brutal jobs across the united states? have you seen this? i have. let me share with you what we are doing. have you seen these numbers? reports of trafficking and abuse of migrant children. you can see a massive surge that begi
accountable for the deaths, terrorist, cartel killers crossing into the united states and those unimaginable numbers of humanity flowing in illegally. while policies under biden defy reality. democrats taking the opportunity to attack the majority party again and again and again. at every turn this extreme republican majority fails to offer genuine solutions and resorts to political theater. the republican majority seems interested only in showboating. unfortunately this hearing is nothing more than a distraction. republicans resort to political stunts at the border and theatrical hearings lairing this one. republicans in congress seem intent on demonizing migrant families. an ongoing and blatant attempt to use fear tactics to scare us into turning immigrants away. we have a broken immigration system because republicans want us to. so they can hold these hearings to mask the fact that they have no affirmative agenda that actually helps people. harris: that was p
president biden: i was briefed about this discovery and surprised to learn there were any government records that were taken there to that office. but i don t know what s in the documents. i have turned over the boxes. they have turned over the boxes to the archive and we re cooperating fully with the review and which i hope will be finished soon. harris: a big decision now in the hands of the nation s attorney general merrick garland. he had already appointed a u.s. attorney to investigate. i would ask next then will he tap a special counsel like he did in the case of the raid on former president trump s mar-a-lago office? democrats say there is no comparison between the two presidents actions. they are defending biden. we are going to support the fact that the president is following this established protocol. that he did the right thing. the appropriate process was followed. this is not mar-a-lago or a president refusing a subpoena. i don t think it compares at all