here s the very latest developments. a manhattan grand jury indicting trump on more than 30 counts related to business fraud stems from the hush money case involving stormy daniels before the 2016 election sources tell cnn trump is expected to turn himself in on tuesday and be arraigned in new york city. the nypd is on high alert this morning. every member of the force has been told to report in uniform today as a precaution. meanwhile in washington, house speaker kevin mccarthy and other house republicans are rallying around trump blasting the indictment as a political attack. and as of this morning, president biden has not weighed in on the indictment, not a surprise there. we ll see what he says. we have all the latest reporting cnn this morning. special live coverage starts right now. very early on this friday morning and look at the papers you got was worried this morning when i left at the papers would not be ready. but they are yesterday. you and i were talking about h
front of guests at mar-a-lago. and again, this was a controlled person. he seemed to calm now. one of the things that we know is for the last month they have essentially seen the former president go through a range of emotions. at times he has been angry. at times he has celebrated that this potential indictment could lead to political success. but last night i am told that he was very controlled. he seemed to understand the gravity of this moment. as we reported last night. several of these advisers , including the for former president himself were really blindsided by the timing of this indictment. yes, for two weeks, they have been planning for potential indictment. they were literally sitting on edge every day, trying to figure out trying to read tea leaves of when this might come, but they read the same media reports that we all did that said essentially, the grand jury was likely not to hear any more on the trump. case before they went on hiatus. so many of them thought they had
consistent story because the more you talk and the more you say, the more there is chance that you re going to say something that s going to come back and bite that case, and that s not what they want. walk through for people joining us just this morning. they ve just read the headlines of the papers. what we re looking at here because we have to remind people. this is uncharted legal territory. this is an untested legal case to tie potential federal charges to a state crime. and you also have the possibility of a judge either downgrading it saying no misdemeanor or throwing it out. how hard how high is the bar? how hard is this to get a conviction to start off with that reasonable cause to believe that a felony was committed? a crime was committed for the grand jury. that s not a very high bar, but to your point, there s a much higher bar proof beyond a reasonable doubt at trial, so the lesser crime is just that there was an intent to defraud. and that there was false entries made in
security and logistical nightmare. and we ll be watching every new york city police officer in uniform uniform order to report to duty. so this is unprecedented. thank you, paula. we ll be watching. okay so take a look at florida. this is mar-a-lago. trump s florida home and private clubs. sources tell us here at cnn, the former president is expected to turn himself in next week on tuesday . that s what we re just talking about. kristen homes is live in washington with the details. this is your beat, and we were all listening glued to the television last night as you were breaking the news, reading the first statement reacting to this indictment from the former president, what can you tell us about where he is right now? so that statement was, you know the usual from what we hear from former president trump. he talked about hoaxes witch hunted linked to this case to the investigation, but i am told by a number of sources who have talked to trump in the last 24 hours that he is relative
lindsey graham says, it s a voodoo. voodoo case, and there s a whole lot more like that. that followed, right. exactly puppy. i mean, it was really within minutes of this indictment that you started to see the rallying around former president donald trump on capitol hill, particularly in the house of representatives, where he still has a strong hold over the republican party, including over house speaker kevin mccarthy, who promised in a tweet last night that alvin bragg, the manhattan d a would be held. to account he did not say exactly what direction the house of representatives is going to go to do that, but we ve gotten some early clues. we saw a letter just a couple of days ago before this indictment was even announced from jim jordans, as well as other powerful chairman like james comer of the house oversight committee, warning that they wanted testimony from alvin bragg expect that that is going to intensify in the days and weeks ahead. lawmakers are