there were about 25 people they allowed in the actual chairs, they have an overflow there. with me is a former u.s. attorney for the southern district of florida marcos jimenez who has more experience than almost anyone on what it is actually like inside there right now. since there aren t cameras in there, tell us what is happening. you ve prosecuted a lot of cases inside that very courthouse behind us. what s going on with the former president right now? well, he s first being processed which is the equivalent of being booked in state court so he s going to the probation office and he s being fingerprinted. he is then going to be a perfunctory appearance, basically he s going to be read his charges not in detail but told what his charges are, the conditions of his release are going to be set, those are very interesting, and he s going to either plead guilty or not guilty and of course he s going to plead not guilty. as crazy as it is out here and as momentous it is because of the i
actress stormy daniels. the former president denied any affair or wrongdoing and has not been shy on social media expressing his outrage of what he sees as political persecution. last night trump called himself a totally innocent man saying the indictment is an act of obstruction and election interference. he does command a lead in most early gop primary polls, the trump campaign says they have raised $4 million the day after the indictment. pete: for more let s turn to former federal prosecutor frank haynes. do you expect tuesday, the expectation that has been set is it will be a little bit of a nonevent, we won t see handcuffs or mugshots or anything in the form of fingerprinting, it will be done behind the scenes. will this come and go when it
it s really how it should end. yeah, this is really such a nonevent. it feels like it was invented by the fox and friends weekend crew who wanted something to be mad at. joe biden did exactly what he should do is trust his experts and advisers and not endanger american lives. and when you put it next to the former guy who literally had his guys storm the capitol armed to overturn the election, it seems absurd that the partisan bickers will molly, the president was very emphatic earlier this and made it clear he gave this order on wednesday to shoot it down as soon as it was safe to do so.
return to the old days of raising debt limit just being a kind of nonevent. it is for money that has already been spent, and we have to always explain this over and over again, and we keep going through this, and so it is for money that has been spent, and so it is not a negotiating tactic, but it is the job of the congress to raise the debt limit, and we need to get back to doing that. so, you know, biden has said that he won t negotiate with them, though he has asked for them to basically send over what they are thinking, but i think that, you know, the people who ultimately will be held responsible for this if it is not lifted is congress, because it is their job. at the same time joe biden as president and what happens to the economy matters very much in terms of what people think hoff the president. so, this is in a difficult situation. especially because kevin mccarthy made it as part of the negotiations to become speaker, and he said that he would not
i played no role in it whatsoever. do you know why congressman kelly thought you would be the best person to hand this list to? i have no idea. but congressman kellie denied initially that his office was involved in trying to get the information to the vice president. i told the truth about that. he lied about it. i was smeared for about a week and a half, and by the way he lied to you or lied about your role? he he lied about his non-role. he office did play a role. that s what i suspected again, this was such a nonevent for me weds to go back into you re records to try to discover what happened. chuck, you started this question falsely. you falsely accused me of getting those i never took possession.