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
on what he called the documents hoax that on any other investigation, and again we are at a place where we have started to see movement. in that case, where many legal legal experts believe that it is coming to a head. okay christian homes. thank you very much for the reporting. here with me tonight . we have cnn political commentator karen finney, watergate prosecutor nick akerman, founder of mo news motion, when your new host of conversations with coleman podcast comment hughes and also joining us attorney john sale who turned down an offer to join the trump legal team on the mar-a-lago documents case, guys great to have all of you here tonight with us to figure out what happened today and what we saw nick let me start with you. now that you have seen the indictment is that a strong or weak case looks to me like a very strong case in the fact that it goes through. you ve got two witnesses. you ve got michael cohen and you ve got david pecker at a minimum. you ve got lots of documents