hi everyone, thanks for tuning into this hour where we bring you tomorrow s news tonight. we have a great lineup of reporters here to share their scripts with us. here tonight, priscilla alvarez, rahel solomon, matthew chance, and brand generous. guys, great to have you here. really fun, looking for to the conversation. the race to the white house is heating up. there is a big announcement expected tomorrow. priscilla is following all this closely. what s going to happen tomorrow? that s the question on everyone s mind. we can t overlook how sentimental tomorrow is to president biden. he announced on april 25th of 2019 that he was going to run for president. and we are expecting that a similar announcement is going to be made tomorrow. but this time it will be his reelection bid. and we expect he will do so in a video, again, very similar to how he did this before. and so everyone s on pins and needles waiting for this announcement to come. is it a surprise? not really. h
latest. we re going to get to everyone there, but let s begin first this hour with cnn correspondent keira scannell, who s outside that manhattan courthouse. keira we start with you because we want you to walk us through what happens now. good morning, jim and jessica s so now we understand from sources that former president trump is expected to be arraigned on tuesday. that means he will surrender. they will work out of time because of the big security issues around a former president coming to appear in court, so there s going to be discussions about security. they will set a time for him to come and surrender and he will surrender to the building behind me around the corner where the d a s office is there he will be processed, just like any other defendant. he will have a mug shot taken. he will be fingerprinted. he ll be read his rights. then, at some point, he will be brought down to the judge and that courtroom where the judge will read the police the charges to him and
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.
and for the first time, the chilling calls for help from inside that elementary school. please hurry. i m hearing shots. they are coming, they are coming. norah: two black hawk helicopters collide, killing nine american soldiers. why this nighttime exercise went horribly wrong. this is a truly tragic loss. russia has arrested an american journalist on the suspicion of espionage. russian security officials claim that evan gershkovich, he works for the wall street journal, was trying to obtain classified information. we have another severe weather outbreak coming, as the areas still trying to recover from last week s storm outbreak are included in this risk. hello, friends. norah: and sports broadcasting legend jim nantz reflects on a nearly-four-decade career covering march madness. being able to have this seat for that long, to tell so many stories, and document so many great events, no regrets. norah: good evening to our viewers in the
morning joe starts right now trump indicted the first ever criminal indictment of a former president of the united states came down yesterday when a new york city grand jury convened by the manhattan district attorney s office took the unprecedented step of voting to charge donald trump. because the indictment is under seal, the exact charges are unknown, but we do know they center around that $130,000 payment trump allegedly made to porn star stormy daniels just days before the 2016 election, to keep her silent about an affair she claims the two had a decade earlier according to the star witness in the case, trump s own former lawyer, michael cohen, the trump organization tried to cover up the payment, falsely claiming it was a legal expense. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is friday, march 31st along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of way too ea early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire the host of politics nation, presid