They name. But certainly the former president s team has spent the day bracing for bad news. They appear to believe that this could potentially reference him. That his name could be one of those on those ten indictments that were returned. Theyve issues taken just a few moments ago. Lashing out at the District Attorney, fani willis here. Something that we have seen the former president doing repeatedly on social media in recent days. They are actually accusing them of Election Interference. Which we should note is, of course, ironic given that what the heart of the indictments potentially. Lets go back to cnn sarah murphy who has been outside the courthouse in atlanta all day. Sarah, obviously we are waiting to see when we are going to potentially hear from baku District Attorney, fani willis, that trump has been attacking here. Whats the latest that you have heard . , thats right, i mean, she is still expected to make remarks to the press this evening. But obviously they want to get t
trump s legal team says the president is expected to turn himself in early next week according to district attorney alvin bragg s office. quote. we contacted mr. trump s attorney to coordinate his surrender to the manhattan s d.a. office on arraignment supreme court indictment remains under seal. guidance will be provided when the arraignment it date is selected. fact that the grand jury indictment remains under seal means we don t know the exact charges. bragg has been investigating trump for alleged payment made leading up to the 2016 lengsdz. that includes $130,000 to adult film actress stormy daniels. bragg questioned witnesses about another 150,000 paid to model karen macdougall allegedly that is. the former president has denied all of these allegations along with affairs with both. all the while bragg has been trthrust national debate. saying in part this is political persecution and election interference at the highest level in history. manhattan d.a. alvin bragg
first of its kind for a former or sitting president. reaction to last night s announcement of the indictment has fallen heavily along political lines. democrats contending it is justified. republicans expressing outrage. we have fox team coverage tonight chad pergram is on capitol hill to tell us what he is hearing on the hill about all of this. david spunt in washington looks at other legal cases involving the former president. we begin with brine llenas in new york where preparations for tuesday s activities are already underway. good evening, brian. bret, good evening. sources tell fox news that manhattan s district attorney alvin bragg requested former president donald trump turn himself in today but his arraignment was pushed back to tuesday as secret service makes arrangements to protect him here at the manhattan criminal courthouse. is he just a tough guy. and he is someone whose knees do not buckle. trump s legal team making clear the former president will not b
Self-selecting off of this jury under the process that judge merchan set up. so by the time the lawyers were questioning jurors, there were as many folks in the room who were likely to express a pro trump view as otherwise. at the end of the day, what the judge was asking jurors to do, which is what juries are supposed to do, tell them they can set aside biases that they have and decide the case based only on the evidence that they heard in the courtroom. that is what each of these 12 jurors and six alternates agreed that they could do. the jury is home for the weekend. they have time to reflect on the six-week trial ahead of them. and the consequential decision they have to make. what happens if they get cold feet or if they come in on monday and tell the judge they are worried their identity could be revealed? would judge merchan have to dismiss them kim would they run through all six alternates?
Brought in and have the chance to be arraigned. even at the same time. the state court system is a little bit more of a gun slinging type system than the federal court. so they are not necessarily as rigid with the rules anyone waiting to watch this on tape before the election might be running a fools errand. because i think it s not like, then we re talking about seven, 17 or eight [inaudible] in the rico, case it has been going on here. you can imagine the difficulty of getting a jury in the trump case. i just think that is a long time. wait a minute, i m sorry, could you just repeat that? you say it took seven months to get a jury for a rico case in georgia? they are still picking the jury, it has been more than seven months. why does it take seven months? well, we have, got multiple defendants. you ve got lawyers jumping into heaven. questioning jurors and all of those things that go along when