let s get the latest from michelle fleury in manhattan. donald trump has travelled to new york where he is spending the night in his namesake tamme behind me and he is reportedly meeting with lawyers going through last minute arrangements. the team boosted by the appointment of tom blanche who is familiar with what colour cases and brought in for his expertise to beef up donald trump s legal team ahead to what is expected to be a historic day. the fact we sell cable news cameras following him all the way from his resort in palm beach to right here in new york city. police presence has been ramped up and as you can see they have been barricades in anticipation of tomorrow when donald trump makes that journey to the courthouse in lower manhattan. he will be read his miranda
yesterday and is now we re going to see how it looks today in court is donald trump, bringing in a new new attorney to apparently lied things today. um and to me as a layman. it feels the last minute bringing him in just the day before you re going to face the judge. what does it mean to you? it means that it s game time. it s on prior to today, you can talk politics. you can speak about the fact that this is politically motivated. you could talk about your scoring the president without evidence today is different. why kate from the public relations narrative to what does that indictment say? how do we pick it apart? is it legally sufficient? is there anything we could attack with respect to emotion to decide? smith and that takes a village. it takes an effort by all attorneys on board. it takes the evaluation of it, and it takes the experience, of course of really seasoned minds to evaluate determine what the proper defenses are last point again. there s one thing from a public relati
that we re going to have moving forward? what they did, though, is they took a threat based approach. they re letting intelligence drive the control measures not just around the courthouse or trump tower. but across the city, and this is just locking everything down. i mean, you can. you can throw 20,000 police officers and really shut down lower manhattan . but is there a need to and what? we what we re looking at over the last seven days as we did not see large groups mobilizing around around the president, you know, we re seeing you know some protesters expressing their first amendment, right? but we re not not seeing any type of agitators in those crowds. that are trying to you know, you know, act nefariously or capitalized on the moment and that kind of strategy as it works. it applies going forward as we as we continue to watch and hear what the president says. one thing one of trump s attorneys today, joey said just this morning that he can guarantee one thing, and that is that
media also wants to obtain these charges as well. so at this point, it s unclear, but once we get them, kate, these are but also how are they supported? is this a case that s going to be mostly supported by documents or testimony from witnesses? some of whom are kind of problematic like michael cohen? yeah paula trump has a new attorney. very new attorney now taking lead. what does this mean? he brought he brought he brought blanche in so late. so some people have described this as a shakeout katelyn polantz. case and historically, the former president has had attorneys not only who work behind the scenes but also to defend him on television and someone like, for example, joe tacopina, he has been one of the most forward facing members of the defense team. he s someone who could certainly do both. he could work behind the scenes. he could also
arrive here today he will go to the 15th floor of the building behind me. that is 100 center street, and that is where there will be a camera not inside the courtroom after the judge s ruling overnight, but outside of the courtroom in that hallway, i am going to go in there with him, so we ll see what it is that former president says we were pretty good indication, sarah given what he s been posting on truth social saying that he believes the manhattan district attorney, alvin bragg, who we saw arrive at work earlier today should indict himself clearly not pleased with the situation that is facing him today as he is adding new people to his legal team, including that attorney tom blanche that has been added to the defense team. the question, of course, is whether or not tom blanches when taking the lead in the in the courtroom today, that is a big question when it comes to joe tacopina, the trump attorney that we have seen on air today, but we are told that trump has been in what was d