the city is under lockdown, protesters seen throwing fireworks at the facility, including one that exploded near police officers. some demonstrators wearing masks and shields to the attack. multiple people have been arrested in connection with the riots. listen. a group of individuals who had been attending an event near the training center left that location and mutualed toward the site armed with fireworks, rocks, molotov cocktails. we have been joined by the georgia bureau of investigation, and the fbi, and making appropriate charges as we speak. brooke: protesters torched equipment. dozens of state troopers and atlanta police officers swarming to the scene yesterday afternoon. the fire burning organized by an activist group throughout this week targeting the public safety training center, calling it an urban warfare campus as part of so-called week of action. these are not the first protesters in the city. on january 21, a major riot under issing the facility caused p
with 34 felonies. the president spoke before a pretty raucous crowd at his florida home mar-a-lago as you mentioned he vowed to fight these charges. he left of center says he has no plans to drop out of the 2024 republican presidential race. these radical left lunatics want to interfere with our elections by using law enforcement. we can t be let that happen. i never thought anything like this could happen in america. never thought it could happen. this is 5% cushion, not an investigation. the 34-count indictment released late yesterday accuses trump of essentially trying to cover up different payments, to cover up alleged affairs during the 2016 presidential campaign. for example, it s alleged from august of 2015 to 2017, trump orchestrated a catch and kill scheme through payments that he through months of false business entries and even covering up the case of alleged door man at trump tower claiming there was a kid out of wedlock. alvin bragg spoke with the media tel
elections. and house speaker kevin mccarthy trading partisan political fights for a diplomatic one, meeting this hour with the president of taiwan mccarthy says the meeting will help make the world safer. china says it s doing just the opposite so a lot to get to we start with today and donald trump embarking on an effort rarely tried in american history running for president while simultaneously fighting criminal charges. his late night speech at mar-a-lago gave us a glimpse of what s to come, a defiant trump surrounded by a loyal band of ardent supporters thumbing through a well-worn political playbook lashing out at his perceived enemies and seeming a little stunned by what happened. i never thought anything like this could happen in america never thought it could happen. the only crime that i have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it one of many things that need fact checking. i want to bring in nbc s vaughn hillyard outside
to use campaign ads. clearly they re already using it to try to fundraise. but also they plan to use it going forward, knowing that it is going to be essentially everywhere. they talked about what his body language look like. they talked about his facial expression. so they are choreographing that part of it before this short appearance tomorrow. i dig. the president isn t playing golf mar-a-lago this weekend he was having dinner for normal. he had dinner with the first lady on thursday night when word of this indictment came down, but i think it s also important to note as we look at this in the broader context, part of why trump ran for reelection was driven by the investigations into him when he announced so early that was a big factor into that. it s certainly a significant one at the time that people around him discussed when you announced this so early, so when you hear his legal team when you hear us political advisors say that this is a politically motivated investiga
davis, michael cohen s attorney, we will speak to in just a few moments, confirmed to axio that his client provided manhattan prosecutors with documentation about a trum hush money payments made to second woman who claims to hav had a affair with them that suggests the case b district attorney alvin brag could actually be broader than the stormy daniels payment also breaking pressed about why trump was in not charged earlier, he told msnbc today that he was aske to stand down by his the bosses we are looking at these so-called hush money payment and then we learned from the southern district of new yor that they asked us to stan down and i stand down i mean they were communicating that they had this ongoing investigation in the west that we put ou efforts on hold while they completed their investigation. and i felt that it was appropriate for me to press th pause button so for the course of more than a year and a half now, that is what we did. i was surprised, after micha