weekend weekend, every embracing for what s gonna happen this week. you ready for this week? we are expecting a very busy one. so let s get started with five things to know for this monday, april 3rd 2023 donald trump. set to arrive in new york today ahead of his arraignment tomorrow. trump facing more than 30 counts related to business fraud. also former arkansas governor asa hutchinson says he is now running for president. the former governor says that he has already also calling on trump to step out of the race. meanwhile, oil prices spiking overnight after opec plus announced a surprise cut in production. by the administration, slamming the move in their response. also this morning, nasa set to announce the astronauts chosen for it are two mission. it will be the first manned space flight around the moon in 50 years and go so tigers g e a u x the way we spell it in louisiana, by the way, all shoes women s basketball team as we say, lady tigers, if you re from louisiana ha
Florida after his appearance. that is where he s going to be speaking tomorrow night. right now he is facing what we believe about 30 counts related to the business to business fraud and this historic indictment by a manhattan grand jury. we re still waiting on it to be an unsealed. but we should note that his indictment is the first of a current or former president in us history. it stems from that alleged 2016 hush money payment covering up cover up involving the adult film star stormy daniels, and it appears that trump is preparing to capitalize politically on this source is telling cnn that as he was playing golf over the weekend, he was also strategizing with his allies about how to use this. to his advantage. it s certainly working when it comes to fundraising, his reelection campaigns as they ve already raised more than $5 million since news of the indictment came down thursday night. trump is expected to give a speech at mar-a-lago tomorrow night. so first for perspective on al
Detectors and the former president is not expected to be handcuffed because he ll be surrounded by federal agents when he s processed, fingerprinted and has his mug shot taken. so let s begin this hour with senior legal affairs correspondent polaroid public mourning. good morning. all right. so he gets here today and then tomorrow it will be in court. the question is between this morning and the court hearing tomorrow. will this indictment be unsealed? that s one of the big questions right now because the charges in this historic case are still under steel. now, mind you that has not stopped the former president from attacking the district attorney. even the judge will oversee the case. and his lawyers tried to do a little cleanup on those attacks over the weekend, but they ve made it clear that whatever these charges are, they re gonna fight. former president donald trump is expected to arrive in new york monday afternoon ahead of what will be the first ever arrangement of a former pr
Will oversee this case, claiming he hates him and alleging he treated his company s viciously in a prior case. it s deeply ironic that a person who spent a good part of his four years in the white house trying to weaponize the justice department against his political enemies, is now saying he s the victim of persecution. it s sort of what comes around goes around. security preparations are underway for trump s initial appearance in this manhattan courthouse is expected to be fingerprinted, but it s not clear if you will have a mug shot. sources tell cnn concerns it could leak in violation of state law and sources tell cnn trump is keeping track of who is publicly supporting him the case. based again on what s being reported the case lacks any legal basis. it s pursuing somebody on the there s nothing inherently wrong or illegal about making a hush payment. we re not dealing with a blind, blindfolded lady justice in this
Perspective on what s happening, especially here in new york city and senior legal analyst and former assistant u. s attorney for the southern district of new york. mr elie honig joins us now and we should point out that he also knows manhattan, d. alvin bragg. personally here, so we just want to disclose that l a good morning to you. let s start with new york indictment. what we re going to see this week. what are we learning about the charges that he might be facing basically what s in the indictment? right so we have not seen the indictment yet, but we re getting really important indicators that give us a sense of what could be in their first of all, don. on friday, the judge in this case issued the first official order in the case. basically just saying alvin bragg, the d a. can disclose that there s an indictment. it will be unsealed on tuesday. but this was really important moment because we saw for the first time. the case caption. people of the state of new york against donald