latest. we re going to get to everyone there, but let s begin first this hour with cnn correspondent keira scannell, who s outside that manhattan courthouse. keira we start with you because we want you to walk us through what happens now. good morning, jim and jessica s so now we understand from sources that former president trump is expected to be arraigned on tuesday. that means he will surrender. they will work out of time because of the big security issues around a former president coming to appear in court, so there s going to be discussions about security. they will set a time for him to come and surrender and he will surrender to the building behind me around the corner where the d a s office is there he will be processed, just like any other defendant. he will have a mug shot taken. he will be fingerprinted. he ll be read his rights. then, at some point, he will be brought down to the judge and that courtroom where the judge will read the police the charges to him and
This grand jury what specific questions. the grand jury faced an answer in making this recommendation to indict. great so this grand jury is a six month grand jury. they started hearing evidence in this case in january. we saw people from trump s campaign come in his longtime friend, david pecker, the former chairman of the national enquirer was in. and then the d. a s office had asked trump did he want to come in that s required under new york law? that was a big signal that two weeks ago that this was moving towards the end zone, a lawyer for the former president of lawyers, lawyers for the former president asked the d a to bring in michael cohen. trump s former fixers. attorney prosecutors, then one week later brought in pecker again as an a rebuttal witness. we re also learning that the grand jury had heard questions asked of witnesses about other hush money payments. we have been talking about how this involves stormy daniels. we re learning now that they were asked about some of
Latest. we re going to get to everyone there, but let s begin first this hour with cnn correspondent keira scannell, who s outside that manhattan courthouse. keira we start with you because we want you to walk us through what happens now. good morning, jim and jessica s so now we understand from sources that former president trump is expected to be arraigned on tuesday. that means he will surrender. they will work out of time because of the big security issues around a former president coming to appear in court, so there s going to be discussions about security. they will set a time for him to come and surrender and he will surrender to the building behind me around the corner where the d a s office is there he will be processed, just like any other defendant. he will have a mug shot taken. he will be fingerprinted. he ll be read his rights. then, at some point, he will be brought down to the judge and that courtroom where the judge will read the police the charges to him and we expect
An attempt to galvanize and fortify support around the republican party and we see it happening at the elected official level. we see whole, all the members of congress largely coming inside, we see his 2024 opponents and potential opponents stepping out and taking on allen bragan taking on trump s script, the saying this is a political prosecution. so right now we see trump s campaign. eager to employ this as a as a short term political tactic, how it plays out long term in the nomination race and then potentially in general election. i just don t think we know yet, sc you re hearing in new york with me, and it s interesting because david david mentioned the 2020. the fellow 2024 candidates are some that maybe candidates and haven t announced yet. i think we have a graphic that shows some of their reactions. we know that vice president former vice president pence was on our air. he said that no one should be above the law, but he criticized this case. desantis called it quote weaponiz
Start with you go back to marjorie taylor green planning to come to new york city to protest. we ve seen house gop leadership rushed to former president trump s defense. we have not heard anything from senate leadership. senate gop leadership that really drives home. this wedge and this divide between kevin mccarthy, mitch mcconnell republicans are left and yet we were talking during the break when the senate republicans had the opportunity and they re the only ones mind you that can borrow him from running again by vote of convicting him during that impeachment, they didn t take it. what does this tell you about where the republican party is right now. on the senate side , there are a number of republicans who are ready to move on from donald trump on the house side. i think they re still very much want to be where donald trump and that energy is, but i don t see anyone really willing to move on from donald trump s voters. mm hmm. that s what you d have to do. it s one thing to just s