tonight on the reidout give the president some money to fight this [ bleep ]. this is going to destroy america. we re going to fight back at the ballot box we re not going to give in how does this end? trump wins in court and he wins the election that s how this ends for their exalted twice impeached indicted leader, donald trump as we learn much more about the charges he likely faces and how his arraignment will play out on tuesday. michael cohen, trump s longtime fixer who went to prison for his role in these same alleged crimes joins me tonight. plus, the same republicans who scream about states rights are now trying to intimidate a local prosecutor manhattan d.a. alvin bragg the truth is trump is being treated just like any other accused criminal and significantly better than, i don t know, say the central park five but we begin tonight on this new day in our country, a day that shows to the world that no one, not even a former president, is above the law. the
, 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
mindset actually is, which is he s panicking. they re going to try to spin this into a win the trump team, they re going to try to say that you know, this is a good thing for him in the sense of their fundraising that his supporters are rallying around behind him, but the truth is that we know this isn t a good day for him, um donald trump is feeling the walls closing in. he s finally being held accountable for, um, you know, potential crime he may have committed. and so this certainly isn t a good positive day for them, but he s probably going to go out there and try to put on a fake bravado and try to rally up his supporters when he gives an address whether that s later today around eight p.m. eastern time or if he does end up making remarks before after the arraignment, so we ll just have to see how he handles it. but there s no way that this is a good day for him or his team. olivia as sarah noted, the walls are closing, and this is just the first wall of potentially many. there ar
it s amazing that i could be handcuffed, shackled why don t they put me in an outfit like hannibal lecter because the president got his picker pulled by a porn star that is an excellent point. there is this sense, it used to be your job to help donald trump maintain this impunity and he s never really had to face the music really for the things he s done, but to your point, he was able to use his justice department who prosecuted you, so he s been able to manipulate prosecutors to get his way and now he can t. you know this man. do you think he s jen wsly afraid as you said, it won t be the same, but he s still going to face a version of what regular people have to deal with it goes way beyond scared or way beyond afraid he s petrified he could put on whatever fake bravado that he wants. knowing donald trump as we all do, who is not just forget about the fact he s a germophobe, and so the fact he s even going to be in this yare
so you have a lot of republicans in those hearings wanting to think this is some sort of farce they re uniformly opposed to because that s their political incentive. and yet there may be some who privately resent the president brought them into this mess and they have to do this type of defense of the party. there may be some who secretly think maybe it s good donald trump is getting a hard time of it, although they can t obviously admit that to their conservative base. and then there s the president and his aides themselves, david, who you know very recently were claiming and appear to be lying saying impeachment would be good and good for them politically, bring it on, that sort of fake bravado. and now you have this reporting and it s backed up by trump breaking his record of most tweets ever in a day as he lashes out angrily.