this is america s newsroom. a years long investigation. a grand jury brought an indictment to president trump. the charges are under seal for now. the counts number in the dozens. bill: that s sparking a firestorm of criticism for the manhattan d.a. alvin bragg. known as a soft on crime prosecutor. since he took office in january, he has downgraded more than 50% of felonies in new york to misdemeanors. he appears to be taking the opposite take against the former president. republicans calling it political persecution. manhattan d.a. s office is in contact with the former president s legal team. they re working to coordinate his surrender. a logistic call nightmare. one of the president s attorneys said the d.a. wanted when im to surrender today. the president pushed back on that and expected to happen on tuesday. bill: let s begin now. chad pergram on the hill. andy mccarthy with analysis. bryan llenas joins us outside the courthouse in lower manhattan, new york city.
the former president may want to have this moment roll out for political purposes because he is clearly using it and digging it in. bill: there is this conventional wisdom starting to settle in over the last 12 hours. the new york post made the point here that they believe an indictment strengthens trump s possibilities of getting the nomination but hurts his chances in a general election against biden. be haar said we want him. he is more beatable. maybe be in the actual trial as a candidate as it plays out in new york and potentially in the other cases you talked about. she said the quiet part out loud. democrats want him to run. shannon: i look at pictures of the screen of president biden and former president trump. put yourself back in that moment, right, during covid, the basement campaigning that the
and everyone has the right to a trial to prove innocence. i thought it with as the other way around. you went to law school. i did and i practiced law and first year we learned that you are innocent until proven guilty in the united states under the judicial system that is currently works. the former speaker getting dinged for that this morning. bill: wanted to clarify that a little bit. front page of newspapers all over the country, washington, florida, wall street journal, new york times. daily news, all with the same cover and headline. trump indicted. where it goes, who knows? we ll be along for the ride and take you through it. great to have you here today, all right? troubling update on the american journalist jailed in russia. what the u.s. embassy says it has been unable to do and how his employers are now responding to that. good news for president biden. some democrats having a change of heart on his re-election saying they would actually like
here we have this very problematic situation where we re told the other crime is a federal campaign finance violation. i think there are numerous problems with that legally and as far as proof is concerned. legally, when the new york state statute talks about another crime, it clearly means another new york crime. alvin bragg does not have jurisdiction to enforce the federal campaign finance laws. i don t think that what trump did here, no matter what you think of it, actually constituents a violation of the campaign finance laws. but even if i m wrong about that, the other problem bragg has is he would have to prove that trump knew that he had committed a campaign finance violation and that he falsified his business records knowing that in order to try to conceal it. i don t see how he gets there. so andy, tuesday we expect probably will be the arraignment. they will read the charges, the president will make his plea
thugs and radical left monsters have indicted the 45th president of the united states of america and leading republican candidate by far for the 2024 nomination for president. this is an attack on our country, the likes of which have never been seen before. likewise a continuing attack on our once free and fair elections. the usa is now a third world nation, a nation in serious decline. so sad. moving forward expect a highly choreographed spectacle. the scene outside of the manhattan criminal court this morning. the secret service is tasked with protecting the former president and they will neveriate with d.a. alvin bragg s office on how and when trump will surrender. whether the former president will be handcuffed. we are told secret service will accompany trump at all times including at processing and there will not be a public arrival and will not be a public perp walk because of security