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
laura: well a blatantly false statement. here s the only thing non-lawyers need to know about this case. if after the 2020 election donald trump had announced that he was retiring from politics, alvin bragg would not have indicted him or if let s say after 2020 trump had gradually evolved in his views and maybe became more like romney or one of the bushes. in that case, alvin bragg would not have indicted him. the real reason that donald trump was booked and fingerprinted today comes down to one simple fact. he has the wrong political views. now, the entire class of politicians and media figures who cheered the proceedings today, donald trump represents an existential threat to the regime that s run our country into the ground for decades, a threat to the credibility of the media that he calls out relentlessly. but most significant of all another trump turn is a threat to the biden family and their nonstop grift machine. alvin bragg is more like alvin bag because he s nothi
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charges against him impact the 2024 race. he said he will plead and he pled not guilty to charges and came only hours after she was indicted. take a listen. donald trump: the only crime i ve commit side to fearlessly deupon fended our nation. radical left lunatics want to interfere by using law enforcement. we can t let that happen. this is a persecution, not an investigation. the 34-count indictment released late yesterday accuses trump of falsifying document to hide hush money payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign. it is alleged from august 2016 to 2017, trump organized catch and kill through false business entries. one instance $30,000 was paid to a dar doorman. alvin bragg spoke with the media detailing his case and told reporters he is keved in what they have found as previous das and previous prosecutors declined to go after the charges. i m doing this for 24 years and i m no stranger to rigorous, complex investigations. i bring cases when they re re
it is 10:00 a.m. in new york i m lindsey riser and this morning huge new questions swirls as the historic case against president trump launches into a new phase the prosecutor alleging new information at the center of the charges. he s not saying what that information is, something trump s legal team is already pouncing on. i mean, where are the underlying charges the indictment actually did not list what these underlying charges are. trump overnight lashing out at both the judge and district attorney, despite warnings from the judge to avoid dangerous rhetoric did his comments last night cross the line, and what does all this mean for his presidential campaign? breaking news out of missouri, multiple people are dead after a suspected tornado strike in the southeastern part of the state, the search for survivors. a double barrel seismic shift in politics, progressives in chicago and wisconsin scoring massive electoral victories, first by electing former teacher br