being tested like never before with the indictment of donald trump now secured, we ll look at the legal challenges and the stakes for the country as well as for d.a. alvin bragg as he undertakes one of the most consequential cases in u.s. history. and while the legal issues play out in court, it may end up being the single most animating issue of the presidential campaign as well in fact, it s already turning the 2024 race on its head, turning trump s adversaries and his defenders and setting the stage for an election unlike any other. even in new york city, which is no stranger to security challenges, police are dpeering gearing up in a way rarely seen, bracing for potentially huge protests outside the courthouse and trump tower in particular. how are they preparing, and what besides protests are they preparing for? but we start with the test ahead for manhattan d.a. alvin bragg can he make his case at trial and turn the first ever indictment of a former president into the f
at least, laura tells you something about it, right? it s very unusual, isn t it? for something like this to be dismissed. not necessarily judges can throw it out if they think there isn t an actual legal hook to the case it remains to be seen again what actual evidence the district attorney offers to support this idea but one of the things i m going to be looking for during the actual arraignment is to see what the judge says about any conditions placed on trump and what he can say about this case. he has been posting up a storm about not only the district attorney, but any number of other characters associated with and given the security risk, i m going to be really interested to see if the judge issues a gag order. defendants have a right to vigorously defend themselves and claim their innocence all they want they don t get a right to threaten prosecutors and threaten the administration of justice. who could a gag order cover trump just trump? it can cover anyone the judge
legal challenges that they are going to front not providing details on what those legal challenges might be. one thing he did say pretty adamantly, though, is that there is zero chance that the former president takes a plea deal in this case to prevent it from going to trial but again, not giving any strategy about how they re going to prevent that. one of his attorneys, though, jim trusty, who s actually representing trump in another case in the classified documents case said on cnn today that he believes that trump s legal team will try to dismiss the charges against the former president saying that i would think in very short order you ll see a motion to dismiss saying we ll likely see pretrial motions to dismiss in, quote, days. but again, all the lawyers including those on trump s team have acknowledged that it s impossible to predict anything right now as there is still so much we don t know until that indictment gets unsealed, chris. i think a motion to dismiss
the service describes its role here as facilitating the transportation and personal protection of mr. trump, not taking part in the arrest or the surrender itself, they re going to coordinate with the new york authorities and mr. trump s lawyers for his appearance and movements to make sure he s able to surrender safely which we re all going to see play out together on tuesday, chris. i also want to ask you about an apparent contradiction. the former president s lawyer says this mornina.anted trump to secret service does. what s going on with this disconnect you got mr. trump s lawyer, joe tacopina, he confirms that the manhattan d.a. s office wanted mr. trump to surrender today. tacopina along with other aides rebuffed that request saying the secret service needed more time to prepare the secret service is denying that to nbc.
has. at this point without seeing the actual document, it s really too early to prejudge. let s take it to mar-a-lago, and dasha, do we have any clues about what s going on behind closed doors there reporter: well, look, chris, despite the media blitz that some of trump s representatives are doing right now, they ve been somewhat quiet on the actual strategy here, and that might be because there s still a lot that they don t know, and there s a lot still that we don t know but here is what we can tell you. we know that trump right now is at mar-a-lago. he s likely huddled with his media and legal team talking about including the logistics for the arraignment next week. that s one thing they have to get figured out, but one thing that we heard from his attorney joe tacopina on the today show this morning in his interview with our colleague savannah guthrie, he s saying he doesn t know if this will actually make it to trial. he said they still have several