it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. we begin with breaking news donald trump has become the first us president in history to be charged with a crime. he ll be charged in new york over alleged hush money given to a porn starjust before the 2016 presidential election. mr trump, who s running again for president, has repeated he s innocent and called the indictment political persecution and election interference . his son eric said it was the opportunistic targeting of a political opponent in a campaign year. the bbc s nada tawfik s outside the court in new york. we can speak to her now. it is late in the evening there, as i understand it, nada, and the press have been gathering, as you have pointed out. what has been the reaction of people who have been passing you by, talking to you about this? figs talking to you about this? as ou talking to you about this? sis you said, talking to you about this? is you said, a few moments ago, the district attorney was a
press have been gathering, as you have pointed out. what has been the reaction of people who have been passing you by, talking to you about this? figs talking to you about this? as ou talking to you about this? sis you said, talking to you about this? is you said, a few moments ago, the district attorney was actually photographed leaving his office which is just around the corner from here, his office which is just around the cornerfrom here, escorted by his security detail, and he got in a car and was led away by a motorcade and all around here, you can probably see behind me metal barricades, increased police presence and, of course, as you mentioned there, the press continuing to flood back into lower manhattan after really having left earlier this week, leaving the grand jury was paused for a bit so we ve been having a constant stream of passerby asking us what is happening, reacting in shock and surprise to the news because of course it is a moment, no matter how expected it was