Misconduct there s so much swirling around, it s difficult to put these together but the age of it, no doubt, is not a great fact for alvin bragg. but it is what it is a prosecutor doesn t get to create the facts they respond to the facts and prosecute facts when they amount to a crime so if you compare this to other cases or the fact that federal prosecutors didn t pursue it, it s not going to matter to a jury when a jury hears the evidence, the court is going to instruct them to simply assess the facts and decide if the law was broken they re not going to say this is too old to bring, not going to say we have heard this all before they re not going to hear for whatever reason the feds didn t bring it they re just going to hear the facts and make a decision about the law. they re not going to hear about what s going on in florida or d.c. right and also, just to be clear, barb, lay out for people the nuts and bolts of this this is not the d.a. indicting donald trump it s the grand ju
Great ratification of our notion of a citizen president and i just would love to get your take on a governor throwing aside the dignity of his own office to put out that blizzard of words that had soros and making it sound as if alvin bragg is under soros control and saying murky facts when he doesn t know the facts it s a kind of shocking when i think everyone is sort of trying to make sure that this whole thing is dignified, even dignified for donald trump the governor of florida, as you know, went to harvard law school he knows exactly what he s doing. he knows he s defied federal power in a way that really harkens back to george wallace in june of 1963. when wallace in tuscaloosa stood in a school house door, university of alabama, and said although the supreme court says that the university of alabama has to be integrated with two
Facts, listening to the evidence, listening to testimony, and then this, we don t know how many people, 20, 22 people indicting donald trump. is that an accurate way to put it yeah, you know, the check on abuse of a prosecutor s power is the legal system, due process. as you say, a grand jury made a finding of probable cause to believe a crime has been committed here it s a fairly low threshold. prosecutors are ethically bound to bring a case only when they believe they can prove it to a jury in court beyond a reasonable doubt so as this case goes forward, donald trump can say whatever he wants outside of the courtroom, but in the courtroom, he will receive due process. they will cross-examine witnesses and the prosecutor will be held to proof beyond a reasonable doubt we have a statement now for a spokesperson for d.a. alvin bragg. this evening, we contacted mr. trump s attorney to coordinate his surrender to the manhattan d.a. s office for
Think that you think about ronald reagan, waging this illegal war with the contras and having that high level, very risky investigation of him, it seemed to embolden presidents that nixon was able to get away with crimes. totally donald trump can i say something on reagan please. yes. i hate to pull these historical figures out of my hat, but i once talked to howard baker who was reagan s chief of staff at the time. sorry to sound like someone who is 900 years old, but i did. i said to howard baker, you know, given the things that reagan did in iran contra and there were big investigations and people were taken to the and howard baker said, i spoke to democratic leaders in the congress. ñ■i m quoting baker.
Notified that he has been indicted the exact charges are unknown, because indictments are typically filed under seal after a grand jury s vote. in new york, the manhattan district attorney was known to be focusing on a felony charge of falsifying business records it s a charge that carries a maximum prison sentence of four years. according to nbc news, the white house is not expected to make a statement or comment at this time donald trump, however, has responded, calling the move political persecution, and a witch hunt trump s attorney told nbc news that he s expected to surrender to the manhattan d.a. s office early next week. the new york times is reporting that trump is expected to walk through the routine steps of felony arrests in new york he will be booked, fingerprinted, possibly handcuffed another first for the former president, who will be the nation s first former president