, 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
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white house chief of staff mulvaney good to see you, sir. what what do you make of it all your former boss, president trump former president trump heading to the manhattan criminal courthouse today to be arraigned. yeah jake, i think the fines and focused has probably consistent with what i would expect. my guess is there was a short period of anger and frustration and shock after the entertainment was originally handled down, handed down, and then the team led by mr trump himself immediately switched into pr control, which is okay. if we re going to go to new york. we re going to make it look good for us. we re going to turn this into a pr event for donald trump. it doesn t surprise me that he s proposing to speaking of national address tonight, um he s really good at this. he s really good. he s a great showman. so my guess is he s trying to take this but can only be perceived as a negative and i m sure he perceives it as a negative as well. he doesn t like being charged in the crime
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