Begins now. Martha good Afternoon Everybody im Martha Maccallum and this is the story. We are waiting right now for hunter Bidens Tax Trial to come back from a quick breakin Los Angeles. This is kind of bizarre the more we learn about whats going on here. This morning he offered to change his plea to guilty. His lawyer dropped that bombshell on Day One of Jury Selection which was supposed to be Today And Tomorrow and opening arguments all set for monday as far as the group does government new. And then this. If charge the president s son with dodging more than A Million dollars in taxes and a big nono filing false returns. All that could add up to 17 years in jail the jail if convicted prosecutors say instead of paying taxes this period he spent his money among other things on Adult Entertainment and various women in Adult Entertainment. Some of this is just raising quite a few questions. Lets go first to our Chief Correspondent on the Scene Jonathan Hunt live at the courthouse. What w
this is unprecedented and it is historic. the first time a former president has ever been criminally charged and therefor we don t have any real roadmap for how it will now play out. we do know former president donald trump will be arraigned next week in manhattan courtroo surrounded by extraordinary security fear also surrounded b security tonight the manhattan da alvin bragg leaving his office after grand jury decided he had to demonstrate probable cause in the case he has pursue against trump, alleging campaign-finance laws were broken but was so-called hush payments to stormy daniels she claims she had an affair with trump before he ran for president for the immediate question is how exactly the former president will be processed and charged to move surrendering to authorities. it is a process, and arraignment, just like anyone else. and then you go from there. trump himself responded with fury tonight saying in part, quote, the democrats have lied and cheated and s
continues to recover poppy interview for him to give and so rare to see. a sitting senator opened up like that. lauren fox. thank you very much. cnn this morning continues right now. good monday morning, everyone right now for president trump is preparing to head to new york city shortly as he is expected to surrender tomorrow and appear in court to face criminal charges. trump s legal team, vowing to challenge every potential issue with the manhattan district attorney s case once the indictment is unsealed, and we find out the actual charges one of trump s attorneys going to join us live and just moments or she is, we ll see her in just a moment here on cnn. also we ve learned that trump is planning to give a speech just hours after he is a rain will break down all of the plans for what again will be a historic day and we are expecting to get started up four hours from now, and former president trump is set to fly here to new york. to laguardia airport as he is preparing to
is bigger than my presidency. i find it absolutely insane. any person running for office that we would go after them in order to silence them? that s a scary place to be. this is all done by biden and his people. may be his people more portly i don t know if biden knows too much about it. i think it s a complete failure of our justice system. it s a complete joe biden kamala harris hit job. it will catch up to him. i think it s the right verdict. etiquette shows our system of justice works if you are rich or poor. i m shocked he keeps going. i m willing to do whatever i have to do to save our country and to save our constitution. sandra: that was moments ago live in new york city and now a lab look at the white house screen left where we are about to hear from president biden. a big question is whether or not he will comment on former president trump s historic guilty verdict. the president we are told will be making those remarks shortly. they are expected to be
after the subpoena was delivered that trump looked through the content of some of the boxes of documents in his home, apparently out of a desire to keep certain things in his possession. do you know whether he reviewed certain classified documents after receiving the subpoena? no i am i have nothing to do with that case. i do not know you don t know if he because you actually looked through some of the documents correct. no that s an accurate i did a search for the attorney general case. you look at it, but you look at the office in the residence and you did not see any documents. no i wasn t looking for classified documents now, and i think you could read my affidavit. it s public record. no i was looking for tax documents and another garbage case. by leticia james. okay so in response to a request for a separate legal matter, the attorney general and tissues james that you just brought up use for that on may 5th 2022 that you diligently search respondents personal office,