preview of what we can expect this week. what are the charges against president donald trump and his court date set for former president donald trump on tuesday in manhattan district attorney alvin bragg has brought an indictment against him. trump is planning to leave his mar-a-lago estate on monday for new york and then on tuesday, authorities will take his mug shots and fingerprints before escorting him to his arraignment . nypd and secret service already working together to bolster security at the courthouse as they track any threats and possible protests. the indictment still under seal styled the people of the state of new york against donald j. trump cnn learning the grand jury voted to charge him with more than 30 counts related to business fraud after hearing from an unidentified witness for about 30 minutes thursday, convicted felon i am a disbarred lawyer, but i also brought the documents. there s plenty of testimony corroborating testimony to go around. trump fixer, michael
jury voted to charge him with more than 30 counts related to business fraud after hearing from an unidentified witness for about 30 minutes thursday, i am a convicted felon. i am a disbarred lawyer, but i also brought the documents. there s plenty of testimony corroborating testimony to go around. trump fixer, michael cohen met with prosecutors and testified to the grand jury and multiple occasions in this year s long investigation. cohen was convicted on federal charges and sentenced to three years in prison in part for his role paying off porn star stormy daniels to keep her quiet in the lead up to the 2016 election about her alleged affair with donald trump. it s a fight against his rejection of truth and his manufacturing of stories that really uh, motivated her to try to cooperate in any way certainly to get the truth out. trump denies the affair and any wrongdoing. $30,000 payment to
any special treatment but the prosecutors in the case and the judge will be hesitant to try to silence him. it s this battling the rights to first amendment, to free speech, you know, versus a fair trial. i think there s easy there s a way to have a middle ground here if donald trump wants to testify in his defense, he can so i hope it doesn t get that extreme, but that s you know, the judge has to have a safe courtroom. jurors have to feel safe to come to the verdict they feel is fair i want to ask you in just a moment about the american journalist who s being held in russia but very briefly last on this, you don t think this is the strongest case i don t it s going to be i m sorry, it s going to be michael cohen s word, the former trump fixer, you know, who made these payments to stormy daniels against trump s. and the key question we need to see is the indictment here what is the felony charge? falsifying business records with trump lying about why he was paying back micha
allegation. you have michael cohen who is an admitted liar, prosecutor for life. now, he said he s telling the truth, he said he was paid to lie for donald trump and that s what he s doing now. and robert costello testified over the sweeblgd that he s handed over hundreds of documents to trump fixer michael cohen. so he once represented michael cohen, but he s in the trump orbit. i mean, who are you to believe in this cast of known liars? listen, you re already in an unusual situation by having either a witness go in that is providing essentially a defense for the former president and having michael kobe on stand-by to rebut that. that doesn t happen all the time. again, there have been issues of michael cohen s credibility. there have already been issues. the federal prosecutor has looked into this. what you have to remember, grand juries deal with this issues all the time. we were dealing with regular murder cases, regular drug cases. you re not dealing with the most pristine of fi
the weekend that he would be arrested on tuesday. the manhattan district attorney has been presenting evidence to a grand jury concerning the former president and a potentially unlawful hush money payment to an adult film actress. but the office has not commented on the timing of a decision on whether to prosecute. in the absence of news, key republicans have been rushing to mr. trump s defense and vilifying democrat prosecutor alvin bragg. but tonight even many of his loyalists are discouraging trump supporters from taking up the former president s call to protest. it s where we start tonight with garrett haake. reporter: the manhattan d.a. s office tonight on the verge of a fateful decision, whether to indict a former president for the first time in history. a case centering around donald trump s alleged effort to keep an extramarital affair secret by paying hush money to stormy daniels. in the last week grand jurors hearing dueling accounts. former trump fixer turned fierce trump