but he will have to appear in court will be fingerprinted and such and there are going to be pain there will be they will make painstakingly make sure that he is treated like any other type of defended. he will be photographed. he will be provided a room to talk to people in he will be brought before the judge will be read his charges. his lawyers will then be able to enter a plea for him, which by all indicate haitian, it appears he ll say he is not guilty and that he is going to fight these charges. and then of course, though, there is always the political side of this and the scene, it is manhattan and there s always a question of what donald trump and his supporters will be doing in there and to keep the focus on that proceeding in the courthouse, atlanta do we have reporting on what the mood is inside trump world? we do alison . i mean trump s team is scrambling day had been expecting potentially an indictment at some point, but i spoke with some of his advisers tonight,
Unprecedented indictment former president of the united states on a campaign finance issue. is an outrage. i m back now. with jennifer rogers. max rose lee zeldin and l z. granderson i wasn t kidding, elsie. he called them not ridge right. there did. who s this people? uh huh. like who wants his line. we re is who is he hoping to appeal to congressmen have any thoughts on that? well, sure, i mean, he s he comes from a base out of indiana, but when that region of the country picked his poll numbers as governor were, like sub 50% like he wasn t liked at the end before he became vp. he has solid conservative views. there s a lane with some of the more religious members of the republican party on some of the social issues. ah his polling. it seems like it s been coming back. pull the pole somewhere around the you know, 7% or so range. uh huh. and it s just a
Reporting during donald trump s first impeachment when even though a lot of his allies thought that a potential impeachment trial would be potentially politically beneficial to him, he did not want to have an impeached president on his resume, and it s very similar. i think right now, as much as i think a lot of people are arguing that potentially this indictment could politically benefit him in the long run. he doesn t want to be indicted, and he s going to say otherwise. publicly he s going to say otherwise to reporters, but at the end of the day he s been trying to avoid and arrests and indictments for the past several decades, and i think it s really a scary moment for him tonight. elena caitlin very much for your reporting. i want to bring in now. cnn legal analyst jennifer rogers, a former u. s attorney, also former congressman max rose and lease elden are back with us when we re joined by l. z. granderson and op ed columnist for the los angeles times. thanks so much for being he
Fixed skin. he s actually very thin skin and he is a very fragile ego. this is his biggest fear that he will be mug shotted. and that he s going to now. have an f a felony next to his name. these are not things that donald trump ever thought in his entire life. nor i, for that matter that he would ever be confronted with. he s seething right now, because of all of the mistakes that so many people that were around him have made from jared all the way to steve bannon. steve miller. you know this whole clown car of, you know of you know constituents that paraded around him. he s seething because all the all the advice that they gave now landed him here. all right. i want to bring back my panel. jennifer l z max rose and lee zeldin jennifer. it s interesting as always, to listen to michael cohen and some of all
That he knows nothing about. i mean, this is ludicrous. like why can t they say let s wait and see what the charges are. this is a charge. these charges are brought against people every day. this is not made up for donald trump. so it s good enough for everyday americans like you and me, but it s not. it s not okay for the former president. i don t know why people think that s a good message. this is why i was curious about where these people what what is his lane? because you re right. i m sure there are some evangelicals who were still support him. in fact, i live in texas, mike. pence came through a church. a couple of months ago , it was packed. he was selling his books, so there is an evangelical base still for him. but then as you begin to peel back the layers of the last four years in the white house, you ask yourself. is this the best we can do as an evangelical? if he doesn t testify. where s the courage like i m just sitting here like going? what s the play here, man? because