addressed the unprecedented indictment friday. we have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone. if applying those laws, collecting facts, that s what determines the outcome of an investigation. nothing more and nothing less. paul: joining me now is the former attorney general of the united states, michael mukasey. judge mukasey, good to see you. so you ve read the indictment. how strong is it? well, if the facts set forth in there are provable, and a great deal of it indicates that they clearly are, it is very strong. a lot of the evidence comes from his own lawyer who was compelled to testify over a claim of attorney-client privilege based on conversations he had with donald trump that show that he knew that he had classified information. there was, there are two instances in which he met with people on the outside, one a writer, the other a fundraiser. and showed them classified information and said that he knew that he had it and knew that it was cl
forecasters say will increase before it gets better. air quality reaching hazardous levels in new jersey, washington, d.c. new yorkers were faced with the worst air quality in the city s history, yesterday. the smog, the smell. i feel i am getting a headache. feel it in my eyes. my must is more compromised than i am. asthma. when i got back from school my head was hurting. i was having bad headaches and my nose started bleeding. gillian: look at the time lapse that shows how bad things really got in the big apple yesterday. over the course of just a few hours, you can see the world trade center disappearing into an orange haze. winds are pushing that toxic cloud that was over new york further south where it will smother even more states. all that smoke is affecting major league sports. the yankees and phillies postponed their games last night. wnba scrapped the liberty s indoor game because of poor air quality. the new york post cover with the old joke today bla
griff:here we go. rhonda santos is nearing the formal announcement of his own and is expected to follow next week as president will buzz builds around several other notable republicans. alexandria hoff is checking the latest developments. senator scott has filed to start fundraising instead of relying on third-party candidates, that is expected to kick off his entry into the race monday. he had the ground running yesterday. if you take out a loan out a violent crime you are going to jail. i will tell you the truth. reporter: the first major add purchase is $6 billion in key presidential primary states, one of those being new hampshire. that s where ron desantis was meeting with president and governor chris sununu who is eyeing a run for president. this week desantis will welcome donors to miami where it is expected the governor will declare his long-awaited presidential bid. the already confirmed candidates have a lot of ground to make up for if they went to near donald
this week s actions demonstrate our resolute commitment to insure that our financial system remains strong and that depositors savings remain safe. paul: let s bring in jason trender, chairman and ceo of an investment strategy firm. jason, quite a week in financial markets. you know, the treasury secretary says all is well, safe and sound, but the markets aren t acting like it. just how big a question a problem is this in the banking system? well, paul, we don t know yet, but i think that, you know, history has taught us that, generally speaking, when there are problems like this in the banking system, they re not they generally don t tend to be isolated. i feel very strongly that in many ways the precursor for this has been 12 the years of i would say borderline irresponsible monoair the policy and fiscal policy paul: right. and so in some ways, it s not surprising that when inflation moves higher as a result of those policies, that people get caught offsides when
new york as a criminal defendant facing 34 felony charges in connection with an alleged scheme to cover up extra marital encounters, one with a porn star , one with a former playboy playmate of the year. we ran the comments from district attorney alvin bragg earlier, so too, will we bring trump to you and jake, whichever donald trump shows up whether he s angry to find defensive, mocking or all of the above, it will be a far different donald trump. from the one earlier today on the 15th floor, the manhattan criminal court building with no one holding the door for him on the way into his arraignment, or the donald trump, who sat stone faced at the defense table for the first what could be many such appearances to come. we don t yet know what the former president makes of this. we could learn shortly, and as we wait for him to speak, we have, as only cnn can a team of correspondents. legal and political analysts help make sense of what happened today and what happens next. let