lost in 2020, who lost a seats in 2022 in 2018. but here he is , the party is still squarely behind him. elected republicans are defending him despite being the first indicted president and former president in history. i mean for somebody who has not paid attention to the ramblings of the former president for quite a while, it s ah, it s not surprising, but it s remarkable that he is still i mean, you could look at this and think. oh, this is four years ago. and it s interesting because the former president, you know as a was a television star 13 seasons , he had his own show, and i would think that he would realize you know, if people see the same show over and over, they re gonna change the channel. at some points. we need to refresh the programming and that you thought you might see that tonight by having some refreshed programming or even more concise program where you can really talk about maybe why alvin bragg went after maybe you talk about look, this wasn t getting prosecuted.
times senior political correspondent trump biographer maggie haberman. um first of all, maggie, i don t know if you heard the ramblings speech the president gave tonight. what did you make of that? what are your thoughts on the day? the day i actually thought when, as well as it could have gone for trump and a lot of ways because this is an indictment that did not have as a bunch of people on his team. put it to me a ton of surprises. they felt as if they were able to deal with this well, and then he gave a speech where he didn t really talk about that indictment very much at all. he did do exactly what he was warned against doing by the judge, which has talked about the prosecutor and his family and talked about the judge and his family, and i don t know how that s going to go over. it has a feeling of trump is almost daring the judge to issue a gag order, which a lot of trump supporters have been predicting defiantly would happen. trump as we know, pushes the bounds of conduct over a
writing was could you please put another lock? on the door. we immediately complied. it s a lot different than the biden situation, isn t it? the next thing i know we were rated by many gun toting fbi agents. who took whatever they wanted, including my passports and medical records. everybody was in shock. nobody had ever heard of such a raid before. we can t even believe it. who would think that that could happen today? i immediately thought of the fourth amendment that protects against unreasonable search and seizure. but they did it anyway, because our justice system has become lawless. they re using it now, in addition to everything else to win elections. apparently they re not looking at me through the view of the non criminal presidential records act. they came up with a new one. this is a new one. and
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 s start with cnn s christian homes at mar-a-lago. i ve got the mood there. anderson. this is a very different mood from these kind of events that we normally see at mar-a-lago. those are usually more subdued events. we saw it with his 2024 election campaign announcement. you have a seated event lots of members. this has much more of a rally feel. we just had some entrance. i guess you could call it by don jr and marjorie taylor green and matt gates, where they were escorted down the middle road. you have a lot of people standing. we ve seen roger stone, mike lindell. a lot of cheering. at one point, the crowd broke out cheering carry one when they saw kerry lake so it has become quite a who s who of tru
these facts to light. well again . this is not michael cohen s case. this is an alvin brig. district attorney of new york case against the defendant, donald j. trump i was merely asked to provide information which i did i provided not only testimony provided documentary evidence, something that i said going back to when i had spoken with george stephanopoulos and said that my loyalty belongs to my wife, my daughter, my son and my country, and i believe that it s important that everyone who commits a crime be held accountable. and if those crimes were relevant enough by the southern district of new york to hold against me, then certainly it should be. it shouldn t matter that it s donald j. trump or former president or anyone. now this is up to alvin bragg and his prosecutorial team. two. provide you know the information