hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. donald trump will be the first former us president to face criminal charges, after a grand jury indicted him over money paid to the former pawn star stormy daniels. mr trump is expected to appear in court in new york next tuesday to face the charges and enter a plea. he denies any wrongdoing and the affair saying the indictment is political persecution . our north america correspondent gary o donoghue reports from new york. this manhattan courthouse doesn t normally look like this. but then it s not everyday a former president gets charged with a crime. in fact, it s happened before. and this is the man who s brought the charges against donald trump, district attorney alvin bragg a democrat and a prosecutor in america s highly politicised legal system. but if mr bragg was saying nothing, the former president wasn t so reticent. he s called it political persecution , election interference and his opponent
of illegal migrants. less than five months from now and we re going, and i ll tell you what we have to change the system. we have to straighten out what s going on in these courts. we got a rigged deal going, this whole country, and we ve got to do it. and those appellate courts have to step up and straighten things out, or we re not going to have a country any longer. but we re going to win the great state of arizona, and we re going to tell crooked joe biden, you re fired you re doing a lousy job, the worstjob the worst president in history. joe, you fired! our correspondent emma vardy, was at that rally in phoenix and gave us this update there were several thousand people queuing outside this building in extreme temperatures. and infact, over1,000 people didn t get in. some people were taken to hospital by emergency services. but for the people who did make it inside this event, the energy is very high, the volume is very high. they re clearly also relishing the op
some i talk to this morning say, look, we don t feel enthusiastic about either candidate this time round. it s not a very popular rematch betweenjoe biden against donald trump, according.suggesting the polls are suggesting. and those i spoke to said they voted in many elections their whole lives but don t even know if they re going to go out and vote. so yet more evidence that perhaps it is which side gets its vote out most successfully that is really going to be the deciding factor of this election. i m nowjoined byjill abramson who s an author, academic and the former executive editor of the new york times. if swing voters are now centrestage and a lack of enthusiasm is the issue, i guess centrestage and a lack of enthusiasm is the issue, i guess both centrestage and a lack of enthusiasm is the issue, i guess both candidates centrestage and a lack of enthusiasm is the issue, i guess both candidates need centrestage and a lack of enthusiasm is the issue, i guess both candidates
he ll have his fingerprints and his photograph taken. he ll then appear before a judge to enter a plea. until recently the most powerful man in the world will be processed like any other defendant. it s finally good to see somejustice happen. it s a political sham, and it s politically motivated. but this case in new york is not the only legal problem facing donald trump. stop the steal! two other criminal investigations are looking into his role in the storming of the capitol on january the 6th two years ago, after he lost the election, and attempts to overturn the results. # cos there ain t no doubt i love this land.#. those inquiries could prove much more serious for the former president, as he readies himself for another run at the white house. gary 0 donoghue, bbc news, new york. i m joined now byjill abramson in boston former executive editor