, the venue for an american 1st 100 Center Street in Downtown Manhattan, playing host to a new chapter in u. S history. Today the arrest and arraignment of donald trump. Former President Trump is back in the city that made him famous. But this time to face a new reality, the first ever former president to Face Criminal Charges. Good afternoon to our viewers around the world. Im Anderson Cooper, new york and im jake tapper in washington, d c. Were just hours away from the opening gavel. Of the people of the state of new york versus donald j. Trump this is the scene, the Manhattan Criminal Courts complex for mr trump. Will surrender. Were told and then where prosecutors will drop and indictment spelling out multiple charges against him at this very moment, we still do not know exactly what those charges are and how many there are connected to mr trumps alleged scheme to buy the silence of adult film actress and director stormy, daniels said a pivotal 2016 campaign moment. As we come on a
including people like his former white house chief of staff, mark meadows, that means now that the appeals court court has says no, we re not going to give you any emergency help here. donald trump. we now know that that means the justice department could try and get some of these top advisers into a grand jury. asking them questions and forcing them to answer about their conversations directly with donald trump during the presidency, just a reminder that this is another thing happening in criminal investigations at the same time separately from this new york case, so is it. just mark meadows? no actually, this this decision we believe from our sources would apply to any of the advisors that are close to him. there s a whole list of them where he was trying to block their answers people like the national security advisor. ken cuccinelli at the time, who was the department of homeland security secretary and other advisers stephen miller, dan scavino, it could apply to all of them if the
it is effective. i say i m gonna second honeymoon. get started today with rex md dot com. cnn news central tomorrow at nine eastern. we re waiting for donald trump to leave trump tower for the manhattan criminal court building and his raymond. but first we have some breaking news just into cnn, a critical court loss for donald trump in the mar-a-lago documents case. cnn s katelyn polantz has details. what have you learned anderson? it s loss after loss after loss when donald trump has tried to block testimony of his advisors in federal court when they re called to the grand jury, especially in the january 6th criminal investigation, and again we just got word that a federal appeal heels court. has denied this emergency attempt of donald trump to try and wall off some of the testimony of his top advisers. top advisers,
all of their possible options on appeal. they have to be able to convince the judge if there is potentially a conviction here, that they tried everything they could for a different outcome, so i think eventually we will see a motion for a change of venue but have spoken with a source familiar with the trump legal teams thinking and they believe that he can possibly get a fair trial in manhattan because they believe now without seeing the indictment, they believe that there are a lot of highly educated people on juries here in manhattan that will see through this. and see it for what they believe it is, which is a political prosecution now once they see the indictment or circle back, and still if that, see if that is still the thinking, but as of now, the lawyers are not working on any attempt to move this case to staten island. all right, paula reid and katelyn polantz. thanks so much. anderson jake. thanks very much. john miller first, um , actually joining the team, let s just start