new york as a criminal defendant facing 34 felony charges in connection with an alleged scheme to cover up extra marital encounters, one with a porn star , one with a former playboy playmate of the year. we ran the comments from district attorney alvin bragg earlier, so too, will we bring trump to you and jake, whichever donald trump shows up whether he s angry to find defensive, mocking or all of the above, it will be a far different donald trump. from the one earlier today on the 15th floor, the manhattan criminal court building with no one holding the door for him on the way into his arraignment, or the donald trump, who sat stone faced at the defense table for the first what could be many such appearances to come. we don t yet know what the former president makes of this. we could learn shortly, and as we wait for him to speak, we have, as only cnn can a team of correspondents. legal and political analysts help make sense of what happened today and what happens next. let
michael cohen whether it s alvin bragg whether it s the judge, whether it s the prosecutors, whoever it might be that he deems to be a threat to him. he uses whatever method that he has available to him in order to try to denigrate you and to harm you. the indictment also talks about you discussing with then president trump his need to repay you for $130,000 paid to stormy daniels as hush money discussion that you had in the oval office of the white house. i don t know how you felt about it then, but looking back on it. is it weird that you were having that conversation in the oval office of the white house? again we re going into conversations that may or may not have been part of the grand jury testimony or my interviews with the prosecutors at the d a s office, so i m going to sort of step
donald trump. it was around the time of the raid on my home in april. yeah and the and the statement of fact in the indictment also talks about, um , veiled threats that he was making towards you through it through social media. and he continues to do that. i mean, donald has been very consistent using his untruth social platform. in order to make these threats. he doesn t just make them against me. he makes them against anyone that he finds to be critical of him or that he has concern of its whether it s michael cohen whether it s alvin bragg whether it s the judge, whether it s the prosecutors, whoever it might be that he deems to be a threat to him. he uses whatever method that he has available to him in order to try to denigrate you and to harm you. the indictment also talks about you discussing with then