busy news day. hi everyone. i m jessica dean and this morning new details surrounding the indictment of former president donald trump, the first former u. s president to face an indictment on criminal charges cnn has learned. trump is expected to appear in a manhattan court tuesday. sources say. that s when he said to be arraigned. this is quite a day. quite a moment in u. s political history. donald trump, former president and current candidate for president in 2024. is facing. we re told more than 30 counts related specifically to business fraud. if convicted, trump could be sentenced to a maximum of four years in prison, though no legal experts believe that s likely all of this connected to his alleged role in a hush money payments scheme and cover up involving the adult film star stormy daniels overnight, his attorney, joe tacopina, says the former president is quote ready to fight. we re on this notable day our reporters, correspondents and guests all standing by to b
we know right now, and that is why we re seeing the outrage but to paul s point this is not one of the biggest legal issues that donald trump is facing, and republicans right now are rallying behind him based on this, but what they are doing is they are setting the stage and setting the narrative that no matter what prosecutors and the legal system are going after donald trump unfairly, there was a double standard and when, after this shoe falls, however, it may fall. there is going to be subsequent legal issues against donald trump with regard to what s happened in fulton county in voters in my home state of georgia if they feel their election was not done fairly as well as what we re seeing on january 6th. those are i think, biggles legal issues, but by then, in many republicans mind they re going to see this as nothing more than prosecutorial misconduct. well, listen as you mentioned that this may be the first of more than one indictment of this former president, georgia looking to
when you consider that manafort and flynn were both engaged in those conversations, that manafort was leading his team through that convention, that manafort had his own interests, pro-russian interests in ukraine, and it s perhaps one of the most transactional people ever born on the planet, the idea that that all happened without there being quid pro quos and nefarious behavior seems very unlikely. and so that s the big next piece that i am expecting to drop, based on what we already know. i wouldn t put it past mueller to indict the trump campaign. we re circling that wagon pretty closely, too. i suspect you re right. this looks like it s going to go on and on. you see no end, at least right now, right? not immediately. and i honestly don t see how bob mueller or any prosecutor could walk away from that ukraine plank switch at this stage. i think there s very likely something chargeable in all of that mess. so i think until that shoe
people were talking to reince priebus who were friends of his and were telling him, you know, this is the time for you to go. there were other people who were saying to reince, hang on now, because maybe scaramucci will be gone in a while if you want to get involved in that. but it was clear that he did not enjoy the support from the president of the united states. we got a lot of pushback from people who know reince priebus that he was ready to leave. but i also heard that the president made his decision. it was difficult for him to do it, because as we know, he doesn t like to fire people, but that he had lost confidence. and also and my colleagues at the white house were hearing this as well, that jared and ivanka are also pushing for this. i think we now have to look and see if another shoe falls. we have to look to see what
attempting 100 above the sand in atlantic city, new jersey, a walk of 1,300 across. we know he holds world records, lots of them, forfeiters for different feats around the world. he is the first person to cross between the united states and canada in over 120 years. he is the first person ever to cross the world famous more shoe falls, niagara falls, in june. in october of 2008, on the program on nbc that used to leave things in the morning, he walked in and bicycled 12 stories up from the roof of the center in new jersey, to, jersey likes this walking up high kind of stuff. jonathan, have they promoted