new york as a criminal defendant facing 34 felony charges in connection with an alleged scheme to cover up extra marital encounters, one with a porn star , one with a former playboy playmate of the year. we ran the comments from district attorney alvin bragg earlier, so too, will we bring trump to you and jake, whichever donald trump shows up whether he s angry to find defensive, mocking or all of the above, it will be a far different donald trump. from the one earlier today on the 15th floor, the manhattan criminal court building with no one holding the door for him on the way into his arraignment, or the donald trump, who sat stone faced at the defense table for the first what could be many 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
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.
they said there s nothing here. they re not even saying what you did. the criminal is the district attorney because he illegally leaked massive amounts of grand jury in from the. for which he should be prosecuted. or at a minimum, he should resign. and alvin brags wife confirmed to report that claimed her husband has trump nailed on felonies. she has since lockdown her twitter account. his chief prosecutor who represented the democrats and crooked hillary clinton and a firm run by chuck schumer s brother, robert. he quit the firm in order to go to work in the d a office in order to get trump. can you imagine that hillary clinton s lawyer, democrat lawyer democrat firm. ultimately, he quit as chief prosecutor because bragg didn t think he had a case thinking that same guy that brought this
would get. president trump. i gotta get him. i m going to get him. this is a guy campaigning. you want to get president trump at any cost, and this before he knew anything about me. didn t know a thing about me. he was campaigning. as it turns out, virtually everybody that has looked at this case, including rhinos and even hardcore democrats. say there is no crime. and that it should. never have been brought never have been. everybody. even people that. big fans have said it, they said this is not the right thing to do. it s an insult to our country as the world is already laughing at us. for so many other reasons, like are open voters. are incompetent withdrawal from afghanistan, where we left behind american citizens $85 billion worth of
before he announced he was running for president. uh if the fact if it was already public, why pay her money to keep it quiet? was it just because people didn t remember or didn t notice the first time it was on the cover of in touch magazine. if it s either in touch or in style, actually, i m not. i m not sure i don t recall that specific document or that newspaper. during that time period, there was something else that had transpired. where stormy. um there was a story about stormy daniels and donald trump in a online website called the dirty dot com that ultimately was taken down, so i m not sure about the article that you re referring to what did you think of the indictment today? what did what did you think of the strength of the charges and the strength of the case? um given how much you have invested of your time to bring