counts of falsifying business records. we are expecting to hear from president trump later tonight. bryan llenas is outside the courthouse in lower manhattan to break down the charges. bryan? jesse, good evening. former president trump charger 34 felony counts of falsifying business records here in the state of new york. just moments ago, but a couple hours ago, the district attorney of manhattan alvin bragg laid out his case. listen. donald trump was arraigned on a new york supreme court indictment, returned by a manhattan grand jury, on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. under new york state law, it is a felony to falsify business records with intent to defraud and intent to conceal another crime. that is exactly what this case is about. so, d.a. bragg is charging former president trump with 34 felony counts, that is a felony count for every single falsified business record that they have in evidence, apparently. now, as he mentioned,
in case i rudely interrupt any of the great minds assembled to talk with us, in a matter of minutes, alvin bragg is expected to address this newly unveiled indictment, indicting donald j. trump. this is thfirst time we ve heard from him since trump turned himself in this afternoon. while we wait, a lot is happening at this moment, including developments in the last few minutes we now have our hands on the actual indictment. it s a doozy it s just been unsealed. people are still going through it, processing it, and it s been made public. you can read along with us if you want to. importantly it includes 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election we understand, thank to our nbc news colleagues, there s a courtroom with trump himself, in his own voice, pleaded not guilty today the former president is on his way to laguardia airport, he s going to fly for mar-a-lago, blah, blah, blah purchasers shared a number of examples of o
weekend weekend, every embracing for what s gonna happen this week. you ready for this week? we are expecting a very busy one. so let s get started with five things to know for this monday, april 3rd 2023 donald trump. set to arrive in new york today ahead of his arraignment tomorrow. trump facing more than 30 counts related to business fraud. also former arkansas governor asa hutchinson says he is now running for president. the former governor says that he has already also calling on trump to step out of the race. meanwhile, oil prices spiking overnight after opec plus announced a surprise cut in production. by the administration, slamming the move in their response. also this morning, nasa set to announce the astronauts chosen for it are two mission. it will be the first manned space flight around the moon in 50 years and go so tigers g e a u x the way we spell it in louisiana, by the way, all shoes women s basketball team as we say, lady tigers, if you re from louisiana ha
a former president donald trump. mr trump landed at laguardia airport, just a short while ago. the former president expected derives soon at trump tower. he is expected to spend the night there ahead of his arraignment tomorrow afternoon at the manhattan criminal courthouse, where mr trump is expected to voluntarily surrender sources tell cnn that the former president faces more than 30 counts related to business fraud that we should note the indictment. remains under seal. these charges come after a years long probe. into a hush money payment made to adult film star and director stormy daniels in the days before the 2016 presidential election, and let s let s uh we re looking. let s let s start with cnn s katelyn polantz right now she s outside trump tower and caitlin . it s odd watching this kind of for want of a better term like o j. bronco coverage of donald trump coming into manhattan for this criminal matter, and i know that media critics are taking issue with the way t
and 30, others wounded when a bomb exploded in a cafe and st petersburg today we are now hearing from russian state media that the explosive device may have been hidden inside a figurine presented to the blogger. the dead blogger had more than half a million followers on his pro military blog, where he aggressively supported the war in ukraine yet openly criticized the setbacks. russian troops face there. let s get right to cnn s matthew chance in moscow. matthew was this looking like a targeted attack. i mean, you ve got to be thinking that way, haven t you, given the circumstances that are being set out by the investigators and the eyewitnesses that are speaking to russian state media, saying that basically this character, this pro war military blogger who was the guest speaker at an event packed with other supporters of the war in ukraine was basically given a statue figurine, a little statuettes by somebody in the crowd. who was supporter of his supposedly and shortly aft