america s rivals? fred fleitz, ready to go, geared up and we ll be joined shortly. john: begin america reports with an indictment watch for former president trump as manhattan d.a. alvin bragg s motives are questioned by critics. john roberts in washington. happy tuesday, sandra. sandra: and john, you are warmed up yet again. sandra smith in new york city. the former president predicted he would be arrested today, but he is not expected to be arraigned until next week, the grand jury has another witness to hear from. john: the manhattan district attorney for the soft on crime approach is taking heat for what critics say is politically motivated. his office is firing back. sal wisenberg in a moment. bryan joins us live in studio. what is the latest from district attorney alvin bragg s office? the office has responded to jim jordan and house speaker kevin mccarthy s calls for bragg to testify to congress over the possible indictment of former president trump. the
is expected to spend the night on monday in anticipation of his tuesday arraignment. it goes something like this. i want you to assume that the 2020 election concludes with biden beating trump. in fact, in my hypothetical biden beats trump by the exact same numbers that biden did be trump. in the electoral college is 306 to 2 32 in the popular vote percentage. it s still 51.3 to 46.9, meaning joe biden garnered 81 million votes and donald trump 74 million only in my alternate universe. trump accepts defeat. there s no perfect call to brad raffensperger. john eastman. he never gets near the oval office . mike pence is not leaned on. no alternative slates of electors are ever assembled. january, 6th. it passes like any other day. there s no rally. there s no storming of the capital. and on january 20 donald and melania trump. they attend the biden harris inauguration. there, there. he s not happy about it. he s grumpy. but he s physically there. and as a matter of fact, when th
with any extradition request. also, greg jarret and alan dershowitz will join us . but first, we have new detailssm from alvin bragg s. repulsive political witch hunt.t according to sources that we have, bragge demanded that sou donald trump turn himself inal today. less thad trn twenty four hourse after the grand jury voted unfairly to indict him. the but because of security concerns, the arraignment won t take place until next week.y tu probably on tuesday afternoon,n. donald trump will be booked.e wb he will be fingerprinted. there will ba e a mumug shot.g the media mob, they will get their so desired mug shot. now, my gut instinct tells me that my friend, my colleague, peter seth, who was on lastg tob time, he s going to be proven correct. that photograph will end up on more t-shirts and more hats that sayn maga and trump 2020 four . it will also appear beforeor judge juan mershon, who by the way, the very same judge who is accused of railroadingth the former cfo of the t
30 criminal charges over alleged hush money payments. w pe wait to see the indictment. former president is expectedarra to be arraigned next tuesday. sources telling fox heg shot will have his mug shot and fingerprints taken but will not be handcuffed. trump s attorney vowinotg to fight back .w you know, when you stretch o the law to get someone you don t like or is a political opponent in this case, it s ver tevery hard to ey get that law to comean back to its original shape.ally today s proof that you could not actually pick a target and then try and find a crime, even a beo crime. ime. that s not a crime because fac there is no crime here. thd i m telling you, theretsknow is no crime.is i know the facts and the law, g and i really want to see where this is going to go. m aj i don t know. manhattan d.a. alvin bragg is facing major backlash for bringing this case in the first place by being criticized for using untested legal theory c to bring state charges inas a feder
we have live team coverage of the damage with nicole valdez in coraville, iowa. we are starting in belvedere, illinois, just terrible news we are hearing all morning there. jacqui and griff, sad situation here in belvedere. people were out last night with their loved ones enjoying a concert. they should be here downtown getting coffee, hanging out at local restaurants but instead a chaotic scene behind me as you can see. cleanup crews on the ground clearing up the debris from what we believe to be a tornado. i will have patrick pan over so you can see what i see here. there s a car beneath the roof here. it just paint the picture on how the storm system that ripped through the community was. 265 people inside of the apolo theater last night when the storms came through. in fact, we had a chance to hear from a witness who tells us how everything unfolded inside, take a listen. i would say there was 100 people, i did witness when i first got here that they did have people o