remains under seal. trump says it is all political persecution. republican lawmakers say it is simple and wrong. the manhattan district attorney alvin bragg has had it out for trump all along. i said from day one this is a political stunt. what s behind all this? hatred. this is absolutely a political witch hunt through and through. this is the kind of witch hunt that can only serve to tell people in the future if it works, you should try to indict people to keep them from winning elections. you are talking about a misdemeanor that gets bootstrapped onto election law in a way i ve never seen. democrats know it has nothing to do with the laws. they are sending a message. harris: kevin mccarthy is vowing the house will hold alvin bragg and his unprecedented abuse of power accountable. and we have live pictures outside mar-a-lago, florida, where former president trump s sporters are gathering. that s his home in that town. national correspondent bryan llenas, how a
it s historic. we ve never seen anything like this before. let s get the latest now from laura ingle live in new york. good evening, laura. good evening, bret. as you can see, cameras are downtown at the courthouse. fox news can confirm that a manhattan grand jury has voted to indict former president donald trump. the first former u.s. president to be charged criminally. the 23 grand jurors have been listening to ed since january on trump s role in hush money payments to former porn star stormy daniels. trump has denied having an affair with daniels and any wrong doing. but his former lawyer and fixer, michael cohen has testified that he paid stormy daniels $130,000 to not speak about her relationship with the former president. and that trump reimbursed him for that payment. earlier this week, former national inquirer publisher day vick pecker testified for a second time. pecker has played a key role in linking trump to daniels. during a rally waco saturday, trump who is ru
at pnc private bank, we ll help you take care of the how. so tell us - what s your why? top of a brand new hour on cnn newsroom, good to have you. i m victor blackwell. we begin with the latest case from the january 6th house committee that donald trump held a key role in the insurrection at the capitol. at its second hearing, the committee kept pounding, the proof that trump refused to listen to the truth that he lost the 2020 election, and not from democrats but from his own people in the white house, and working on his campaign. his campaign manager, bill stepien recalled what he told trump about his prospects. this is just after the election. very very very bleak. you know, we told him that the group that went over there outlined, you know, my belief and chances for success at this point. you know, my belief is that it was a very very 5 to 10%s, it s not a very good optimistic outlook. 5 to 10% there. well, then the committee showed how trump continued to embrace
[applause] greg: happy monday, everybody. so there is a new marvel movie out, and apparently it sucks. i haven t seen it yet because, as you know, i have better things to do. the new flock is courtesy of disney but the real marvel is how each movie they put out is getting worse and worse. the next hero movie should be the incredible shrinking box office, the latest marvel was the worst opening for any movie ever. even worse than ironman or little women. they got destroyed in that. in this universe women are as physically strong as men. i m talking actual women now, not the one with five shadows who can pea their name in the snow but today entertainment is now secondary to diversity and every cast must be as colorful as a bag of peanut m and m s and twice as nutty. it s the universe according to disney. unfortunately that s the only universe where this crap is a hit and it s a universe that s as entertaining as counting the spots on biden s thighs. so as his numbers dro
a political witch hunt and saying they are only charging him because he is deciding to run for president again. harris: how the case will play out in a court of law experts such as jonathan turley say not well unless there is a smoking gun of some sort. the indictment may come out with a crime that none of us have heard of. but for many months, this boot strapping theory has been put out there. this idea that you could take a misdemeanor under new york law that has a two year statute of limitations and revive it by connecting it to a federal crime, in this case federal election violation. there is a host of problems with that. i think it is rather outrageous. i think it is legally pathetic. harris: leo terrell. attorney and fox news contributor with me now in focus. leo, one thing i m not hearing a lot about, how does trump and