politics. trump represents 74 million voters. what happens when you throw 74 million voters in jail? alvin bragg, the manhattan district attorney, is trying to pinch trump for some bad bookkeeping. bragg says trump put the payment to stormy daniels in the wrong column. at most that s a misdemeanor accounting charge, at most. but the statute of limitations ran out on that charge years ago. it s dead. bragg is trying to shock it back to life. he is going to splice the local misdemeanor with a federal charge, a campaign finance violation to make it a felony. this is a gain of function research prosecution. bragg thinks trump paid off stormy daniels to help his presidential campaign. trump would have paid off stormy even if he wasn t running for president to protect his marriage, his reputation, and i don t know what happened between the two of them, but he wanted it to go away and she wanted to get paid. who is hurt? women make stuff up all the time. kavanaugh accusers eventuall
says the d.a. must indict. he is here to explain exactly why to you. plus, ron desantis in a new interview calls trump attacks background noise, predicts he can beat biden. this of course from a man who has not declared that he s even running. and a judge tearing into fox news accusing the network of knowingly providing false information as tucker carlson s private texts were shown in a court. we re going to show you what tucker carlson said. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, blow up our country, those are the words of a gop senator who warns an indictment against the former president trump, which could come as early as tomorrow, would be disastrous for america. it s going to blow up our country, and this is a bunch of b.s. now, in just a few hours, the grand jury in new york investigating the $130,000 payment that trump s fixer michael cohen made to stormy daniels, the adult film star, will meet. the grand jury s going to
and, again, i think it s important to note what the actual charge we re probably talking about is essentially a likely misdemeanor i think to get it to the felony level requires some burdens of poof that i think are arguably will not be established in terms of intent and getting the records around the former president s intent. so essentially we re talking an accounting misdemeanor from seven years ago. we can have a separate discussion on the fulton d.a. grand jury in other parts of potential criminal liability that a former president may be facing. but if this is where we re now saying we re going to break the precedent or cross the rubicon of having a former president indicted over a misdemeanor accounting charge from seven years ago, we re just treading into very dangerous ground going forward. i think it s important that those are involved in this understand what the future s going to look like here. and what do you think about the calls to protest? obviously the former presiden
politics. trump represents 74 million voters. what happens when you throw 74 million voters in jail? alvin bragg, the manhattan district attorney, is trying to pinch trump for some bad bookkeeping. bragg says trump put the payment to stormy daniels in the wrong column. at most that s a misdemeanor accounting charge, at most. but the statute of limitations ran out on that charge years ago. it s dead. bragg is trying to shock it back to life. he is going to splice the local misdemeanor with a federal charge, a campaign finance violation to make it a felony. this is a gain of function research prosecution. bragg thinks trump paid off stormy daniels to help his presidential campaign. trump would have paid off stormy even if he wasn t running for president to protect his marriage, his reputation, and i don t know what happened between the two of them, but he wanted it to go away and she wanted to get paid.