, the venue for an american 1st 100 Center Street in Downtown Manhattan, playing host to a new chapter in u. S history. Today the arrest and arraignment of donald trump. Former President Trump is back in the city that made him famous. But this time to face a new reality, the first ever former president to Face Criminal Charges. Good afternoon to our viewers around the world. Im Anderson Cooper, new york and im jake tapper in washington, d c. Were just hours away from the opening gavel. Of the people of the state of new york versus donald j. Trump this is the scene, the Manhattan Criminal Courts complex for mr trump. Will surrender. Were told and then where prosecutors will drop and indictment spelling out multiple charges against him at this very moment, we still do not know exactly what those charges are and how many there are connected to mr trumps alleged scheme to buy the silence of adult film actress and director stormy, daniels said a pivotal 2016 campaign moment. As we come on a
Reporter we do know that something that President Trump had been considering, what were being told by Senior Administration officials the Deputy Attorney general was confirmed two weeks ago, he had time to look over james comeys turn your, and we have seen the letters which are essentially an indictment of the handling of Hillary Clintons emails. They said they no longer had faith in comeys ability to lead the department, they took this recommendation and he drafted this letter. But theres questions about the timing of this, why this is all happening now, its information that President Trump has celebrated in the past, but its serge not new information. The letter that the president sent to former fbi director comby. Can you explain what it cede said . Reporter i want to read you the portion that i think is
particularly confusing in President Trumps letter to comey, in this hes dismissing him. He said that while i greatly appreciate you informing me on three separate occasions that i a
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all through the fall for the behavior that he now says justifies his firing. that is ridiculous and not believable, and shows that it s not the real reason that comey was fired. and we continue to watch the motorcade, what we believe is james comey. this is a reason he was fired, we just don t demo what it was. this is a police motorcade on a busy rush hour in los angeles, and if you remember oj simpson, this is just crazy. kellyanne conway, to those who say why fire james comey now? i would point to the three letters that were received today. the letter by president donald trump and by attorney general jeff sessions and by deputy
in some way visible. i ve seen him driving around in a car in rome. he drives a ford focus. he goes around with another american car, very simply. no escorts. none of these big cars. nothing. he zips around. in rome, you can just walk right up. you can. i was actually there one day and there was two out riders and a car and that was it. nothing else. the windows open waving. when you do that, you got to stop. he s reaching julie banderas. tell us what he s saying. this is so much better than thanksgiving day balloons. we re watching the pope to exit central park. you see the line, the police motorcade right here. this is west drive. this is the southernmost tip of central park. none of us really knew exactly what route the pope would be taking, so i feel like i just won the lottery because i didn t