going to make comments on this later this evening. we don t know what form, whether he will answer questions, make a speech a combination of it. he s going to speak, a judge did not issue a gag order on any of this but advised him to watch his social media use. ahead of hearing from alvin bragg, and that could happen any minute, i do want to go to bryan llenas right now with what went down in there. again, courtesy, jake gibson as well in the courtroom to find out exactly what transpired. bryan? neil, yeah, we begin on the indictment. what we now know before d.a. alvin bragg speaks is that these are 34 felony counts for falsifying business records in new york. in the indictment, the first line reads, the defendant donald trump repeatedly and fraud leaptedly falsified new york business records to conceal criminal conduct that had damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election. those are the counts that it goes on and on at this point. we
counts of falsifying business records. we are expecting to hear from president trump later tonight. bryan llenas is outside the courthouse in lower manhattan to break down the charges. bryan? jesse, good evening. former president trump charger 34 felony counts of falsifying business records here in the state of new york. just moments ago, but a couple hours ago, the district attorney of manhattan alvin bragg laid out his case. listen. donald trump was arraigned on a new york supreme court indictment, returned by a manhattan grand jury, on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. under new york state law, it is a felony to falsify business records with intent to defraud and intent to conceal another crime. that is exactly what this case is about. so, d.a. bragg is charging former president trump with 34 felony counts, that is a felony count for every single falsified business record that they have in evidence, apparently. now, as he mentioned,
Against him in an unfair way. as joe said, by using the weakest case to come of the most tenuous, flimsy case to go first, this is only playing intt story line, so it is going to help with the primary voters. i think president trump was wise not to speak in public yet, not to try to get some kind of circus going in new york city because that would have reminded the general electric of january 6, i m glad he didn t do that. neil: and why push it? jesse: hello, everybody, i m jesse watters, joe jeanine pirro, 5:00 in new york city and this is the five. a surreal day in american history. former president donald trump on his way back to florida after surrendering himself in a manhattan courthouse vehicle he was arrested, fingerprinted, pled not guilty to 34 felony