donald trump has become the first us president in history to be charged with a crime. he ll be charged in new york over alleged hush money given to porn starjust before the 2016 presidential election. mr trump, who s running again for president, has repeated he s innocent, and called the indictment political persecution and election interference. his son eric said it was the opportunistic targeting of a political opponent in a campaign year. in a moment, we ll get the view from washington with our correspondent nomia iqbal. first, let s go to the court in new york. the bbc s nada tawfik is outside the court in new york. you have been there for the last few hours. what is the latest now? latest now? well, we are caettin latest now? well, we are getting a latest now? well, we are getting a better - latest now? well, we are getting a better sense i latest now? well, we are getting a better sense of| latest now? well, we are - getting a better sense of how all of this is lik
to important star stormy daniels karen macdougall and a door man at trump power. o2015 to 2017 payments. all 34 counts date back to 2017 only. as you can see here president trump pled not guilty to charges. the ex-president will will raised his fist and waived to audience. he returned to palm beach to defend himself unprecedented charges against him. i never thought anything like this could happen in america. never thought it could happen. the only crime that i have committed is so fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it. these radical left lunatics want to interfere with our elections by using law enforcement. we can t let that happen. trump used his address to go after manhattan d.a. alvin bragg calling the charges against him a political attack. the manhattan judge who presided over trump s arraignment warned the ex-president not to make any statements that could incite violence. the former president called him a quote trump hating judge. d.a. al
is the only issue at hand proceedings or some of the most secretive proceedings processes a non political process. this guy is doing politics. he has an agenda that is not the rule of law. its spirits. he s ready to go in and do what he needs to do. this is not a situation that he has any control over. i think right now he s beyond petrified to liberal prosecutor that s doing political revenge against a former president. that s not a precedent that you want to have more dangerous precedent to set here would be to do nothing. today it all happens. today is the day the day good morning, everyone seven am here on the east coast. we re glad you re with us. the sun is up. behind caitlin outside of 100 center, street street, caitlin, the manhattan criminal court house, which is where the world s attention will be on the former president today. yeah i should note that there are a lot of security here. there s a lot of new york police department officers, a lot of barricades. there i
the beat with ari melber starts now. you were speaking to donald trump s former lawyer, now grand jury witness last night i spoke to his current lawyer, who blames everything just about on the former lawyer. i m curious what you think of it all, including your skills as an established political communicator what we re hearing coming out of this team? well, first of all, i m so glad to get to talk to you i described you behind your back as masterful it was a brilliant interview i watched it when i got home i think that what he is doing is what you said. he was engaged in political communications his defense as he described it to you was that he would have paid it either way because melania would be mad well, the federal crime isn t being charged by sdny. this is a state investigation. it doesn t seem like an apples to apples kind of comment. what i think is about to happen in this country is a giant debate about whether this was just a foot foul, sort of a b.s. kind of t
Lu contour was 102 years old. Let us not forget this era now that we have lost all of the heroes from that event, thanks to our panel for joining us, thanks to all of you for being with us. Im kasie hunt, Cnn News Central starts right now new, this morning donald trump ban from attacking the judges daughter. So what happens if he disobeys the new expanded gag order issued . Same day, he lost 1 billion on paper. Where will that fortune go when the markets opened shortly and breaking overnight, they came from Around The World to feed starving people. When gaza now seven people working with the humanitarian group World Central Kitchen have been killed. The group says the Israeli Military bomb them florida green cord paves the way for one of the most restrictive Abortion Bans in the country, setting up a president ial showdown in the state. Im kate baldwin much john berman and sara sidner this is Cnn News Central this morning, President Trump posted his bond to the new york civil fraud cas