welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. donald trump has become the first us president in history to be charged with a crime. he ll be charged in new york over alleged hush money given to a porn starjust before the 2016 presidential election. mr trump, who s running again for president, has repeated he s innocent and called the indictment political persecution and election interference . his son eric said it was the opportunistic targeting of a political opponent in a campaign year . the bbc s nada tawfik s outside the court in new york. nada, you ve been outside there for a few hours now. what is the situation like now on the ground? the situation like now on the round? , , the situation like now on the round? 3 , ground? it s very calm here in new york- ground? it s very calm here in new york. there ground? it s very calm here in new york. there is ground? it s very calm here in new york. there is an - ground? it s very calm here in l new
both directed at new york city, and courts here in new york, and justice system, and the district attorney s office. he said that these are irresponsible social media posts, threatened death and destruction, and even world war iii. he said that these public statements to the district attorney, which included a photo of him swinging a baseball bat towards the district attorney s h head, was very concerning. they re concerned about this and what effect it will have on potential jurors and witnesses but they said this will not dissuade the office, and they re seeking a protective order regarding discovery materials. they re very concerned that some of the attorneys some of this may be leaked or that president trump himself would use some of that discovery in a way that would compromise a potential trial. they began discussing conditions of release they talked about how defense attorney joe tacopina had communications with stormy daniels and that could present a conflict in respo
in case i rudely interrupt any of the great minds assembled to talk with us, in a matter of minutes, alvin bragg is expected to address this newly unveiled indictment, indicting donald j. trump. this is thfirst time we ve heard from him since trump turned himself in this afternoon. while we wait, a lot is happening at this moment, including developments in the last few minutes we now have our hands on the actual indictment. it s a doozy it s just been unsealed. people are still going through it, processing it, and it s been made public. you can read along with us if you want to. importantly it includes 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election we understand, thank to our nbc news colleagues, there s a courtroom with trump himself, in his own voice, pleaded not guilty today the former president is on his way to laguardia airport, he s going to fly for mar-a-lago, blah, blah, blah purchasers shared a number of examples of o
after i spent the afternoon with president trump, i left mar-a-lago, he invited me to dinner. and i was going to come back. and while in the car i heard about this outrageous effort by the manhattan district attorney. i did come back for dinner, i sat with the president and porteforth former first lady and others. i must tell you, this is a remarkable man, he is strong, and passionate about you the american people. as i speak there have been 4 grand juries investigating the man for the most preposterous phony crimes, all run by democrats in overwhelmingly democrat cities, with democrats si democrats sitting on the grand juries, and democrat judges and potential juries. before i get into this, i want to say a few things, it might get me on the fbi most wanted list. let me read this to you. in course of h humanitarian an events. to assume among powers of earth equal station to which the laws of nature and nature s gotten titled them, a decent respect to opinion of mankind requi
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