come on out. i'm on it. imprint for certain solomon in new york, and this is cnn. closed captioning brought to you by meso book .com. we proudly help veterans with mesothelioma call for a free book 1 808 220400 or go to meso book .com. history is about to be made when he leaves from tower heads downtown in this country's 45th president becomes the first to face criminal charges. the fact that he has added a new defense attorney the day before he's about to be around, does show that they are taking this seriously. trump is an innocent person until proven guilty to the principle of equal justice

is the only issue at hand proceedings or some of the most secretive proceedings processes a non political process. this guy is doing politics. he has an agenda that is not the rule of law. its spirits. he's ready to go in and do what he needs to do. this is not a situation that he has any control over. i think right now he's beyond petrified to liberal prosecutor that's doing political revenge against a former president. that's not a precedent that you want to have more dangerous precedent to set here would be to do nothing. today it all happens. today is the day the day good morning, everyone seven am here on the east coast. we're glad you're with us. the sun is up. behind caitlin outside of 100 center, street street, caitlin, the manhattan criminal court house, which is where the world's attention will be on the former president today. yeah i should note that there are a lot of security here. there's a lot of new york police department

officers, a lot of barricades. there isn't a line of reporters actually snaking around the building here waiting to get access inside. they've been here since yesterday evening. just to give you a sense of what we're talking about, as history is about to unfold at the courthouse behind me here in new york, that is where for president trump is going to be arranged just hours from now he'll turn himself in and become the first ex president in america to face criminal charges . the arrangement is expected to happen in the two o'clock hour. we should note after the court hearing, trump is planning to return back to florida to mar-a-lago, where he is expected to speak. then we'll see if he does so before then. he arrived in new york yesterday in a motorcade brought him to trump tower where he has been for the last several hours meeting with his legal team yesterday on the eve of his surrender, also having dinner we do know overnight, the judges decided he will not allow news cameras into the courtroom to broadcast trump's hearing. but in his ruling, the judge did acknowledge that the indictment here is a quote monumental.

significance the judge also wrote quote never in the history of the united states has a sitting or past president been indicted on criminal charges. mr trump's arraignment has generated unparalleled public interest and media intrigue and media attention. the populist rightly hungers for the most accurate and current information available. to suggest otherwise would be disingenuous. those are theds of the judge. trump will appear before today channel from our cnn, carrots, carrots kennels here with me now, carol . obviously there's a lot of questions about what today is actually going to look like once trump is here. what is the latest that you've heard? and how? how they're preparing for this right? i mean, so we're starting to see some street closures. the one right down that corner is where the d a s office century is and that's possibly where trump will make his entrance. that's usually where people come into surrender . from there, he will be processed. we understand you know that there's questions about whether a mug shot will be taken, but it'll be fingerprinted. and because he is the former president, there is a

lot of security. there's a lot of protocols here. the courthouse is going to be emptied out for the period of this arraignment. the floors restriction. there's as you mentioned there is media lined up to get color coded passes to be able to get entry into the courtrooms and the overflow courtrooms since the judge has denied this request for cameras , you know, and then it will. it's expected to be a relatively brief hearing. it's an arraignment, so trump will go. we think it'll last. i mean, it could be anywhere from like 15 minutes to an hour, depending on what steps the judge wants to go through here. i mean, this is the first time trump will be before a judge facing criminal charges is certainly a lot of weight to this, you know. will be a moment to see him. walk in the hallway, enter the courtroom and then sit behind the defendant's table. then the judge will, you know, ask him if he wants a reading of the indictment that is usually waived, and then he will ask him to enter a plea. and then we will. you know, sometimes the attorneys do it for the defendant, but you know it's possible. donald trump will enter the plea of not guilty

that's actually know who will say the words not guilty. right i mean, in some cases the defendant utters at themselves and other cases, the lawyer will enter it on their behalf. that's going to be a moment there. is it going to be the former president who says it himself and then just to see him? then exit that courtroom in this historic moment going from the oval office to this courthouse behind us to face these unprecedented charges? it's a word. i think we're going to be hearing a lot today, keira. thank you for that standby. i know you're going to be in the courtroom today. we'll be talking about that as well, poppy. just so many moments here, of course, as they city is bracing for a lot of this. we do know some of what it's going to look like, but some of it just so much of it is still really unknown. what does it feel like down there? it's interesting because it's not that chaotic. i was saying this yesterday when we were at trump tower. it was there were a few dozen protesters, but it wasn't really anything incredibly significant . that raised a lot of concern. there is a lot of security and cares right. they have been

blocking off the roads. i got out several blocks away when we got here about 4 30 this morning, but you can see there's high interest. obviously there's a ton of members of the media here and as simona saying earlier, you know, the police are making their being vigilant about where you can and cannot go right now. a shark is coming up. more people are down because the shots earlier, hardly anyone on the street except for some cars, right? okay, caitlin. thank you. we'll get back to you and karen, just a second mayor eric adams. new york city mayor says he's quote really not concerned about the security challenges new york city is facing ahead of this arraignment here with us now is cnn's chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst john miller. who has it was a thing or two about what it's like to handle scenarios like this. thanks for being here on a day like this, so looks all looks calm. and i think the mayor is right. the nypd, particularly my old bureau, the intelligence bureau has moved. presidents sitting presidents, former presidents, popes and kings through new york city many times, so a lot of that is

muscle memory. it's a detailed job, terrorists, all kinds of people that don't move through and i mean done. that's actually interesting because you know you have a dignitary that needs to move. a former president counts there. but you also have defendants who are under guard because of a myriad of threats and a complicated picture. remember working on the program we had to develop to move al chapo around, not making the comparison between el chapo and president trump. but here you have a hybrid situation where you're protecting a former president who you are bringing to an arrest situation so it's odd, but the dynamics of the operational piece or similar the former fbi officer told the new york times at the city's location was a deterrent to some violent protesters because in his words, it's inconvenient, inconvenient. that's basically what he said. expensive to get to too many tolls hard to park. so you have that going for you. on the other hand, it's a place that lives on mass transit, and there's all kinds of things that come this way. but what we

haven't seen is too critical things one a groundswell of people heading here to come in large numbers, and that has included everything from monitoring hotel reservations and all that to see if there is like a huge amount of people coming in for this particular date, not seeing that the other thing we haven't seen and this should be acknowledged, is we haven't heard donald trump say, i want my people to be here on this date at this place, which would have been a game changer in terms of what to expect. he did. he did call for protests, and he did have one point say death and destruction. tried to walk that back a little bit later, but you're right, not a specific date time place what they say the nypd sees everything. what are they seeing that we don't know about poppy. what they're seeing is threats. you know we were talking probably the other day about. you know, the first week they were rounding 82. they surpassed 100. but you know, i've i've kind of check through those threats on the two or three places where the great volume is, um ah on online and you

know, there's about 60 right now targeting the district attorney. individual senior staff, the judge and you cannot separate yourself from that threat stream and statements that former president trump has made about. the judge hates me. why is he? the district attorney is trying to derail the elections. so and that way, you know, there has been a stirring of the pot in terms of verbiage that has generated real concern, saying that the d a should indict himself overnight. well and they say a lot worse than that in these threat streams. i mean, i was going through them last night on the late side and you know, they call for violence, but you know, nypd assesses those. so do they see a specific, credible threat? no looking for that lone wolf. yeah, they're down there right now. scanning miller. thank you very, very much. katelyn polantz was just thinking as john was entering that last question how rare it is to see these sustained attacks on the judiciary on judges, something

we saw during trump's term as president and something that is continuing now. yeah not surprising for trump himself surprising generally, though, of course. typically you would not see someone attacking the judge that they're going to be appearing before. i've been speaking to a lot of people in trump's trump's orbit. they are not exactly thrilled with the fact that he's been going after the judge or saying like you did last night that alvin braxton indict himself here. of course. you know all this is coming as his legal team is dealing with all of that. he does have a new attorney on his team one that he added just yesterday. i was told todd blanche, he's a prominent white collar defense attorney. he joined after a member of trump's own legal team has raised questions about one of the attorneys. that is in this case. joe jacket, pena. this is what trump attorney tim parla tory who is not representing trump in the manhattan case, but is in the january 6th and the documents investigation. here's what he told me on friday, when i asked if tacopina was the right attorney to take this case to trial. as to who is going to

try the case. i know that joe has certain potential conflict issues, given his prior contacts with stormy daniels. so you know who is the right attorney taken to trial is something that the client will have to decide like you don't think that joe tacopina, and you think he has a conflict of interest here ultimately be the person representing trump in this case. i'm i'm not going to comment on joe tacopina. joining me now is cnn senior legal analyst hoenig and cnn's kara scannell. back with us, uh we'll start with those comments there. you know, todd blanche, actually, and you've worked with him. previously he was just added, what does it say to you that he was added to the legal team yesterday, taking this seriously , maybe belatedly, but he's definitely taking it seriously. todd blanche. is an experienced prosecutor. he knows his way around this area. we're sitting right now. he and i were colleagues together at the southern district of new york two buildings down that way, along with alvin bragg. let's

note the current d a. he knows his way around the courtroom, and he's i think, perhaps a needed contrast with what we've seen so far from donald trump's team in that todd blanche is not a bombastic he is not going to pound the podium. he is focused his careful he's really soft spoken, if anythingand so perhaps this will bring some balance and some little more substance to trump's legal team, which is pretty unusual for trump to pick us up. good tasting lawyers represented people in trump's orbit as well. paul manafort as an example of that. when it comes to all of this, you know, we're thinking about trump's legal team. but we're also talking about these attacks as poppy was noting there the unusual nature of the attacks on the district attorney here, alvin bragg. we are going to hear from him today, too, though, after all of this happens, i mean, yeah, we're expecting him to have a press conference later today, and this is difficult it is i mean, big, high profile cases, they usually will have a press conference because they answer questions of the public that we will post to them about this case, and you

know, a lot of the questions are going to be you know why now? a lot of this conduct happened seven years ago. um, why against the former president? what you know evidence he might be able. if it's in the indictment that they can speak to. there's a lot of restrictions about what they can say. but what he can do is address the public questions about you know, why are you bringing this case? what is the significance of this case? and you know we've yet to see the indictment so we don't know exactly how they're laying it out what the specific charges will be. and if there is, you know, say there is like a conspiracy charge they could that gives them more leeway to explain what this crime was. and i think that's the big question that the public has. we've heard it from democrats and republicans of you know, is this the right case to bring against the former president? this will be his opportunity to set their tone and why they think that this case is worthwhile watching for at that press conferences. does alvin bragg go outside the normal boundaries of this kind of pressure? because normally in this situation, prosecutors will only talk about what's already

in the indictment, and you'll get some generalities about facts and law. but will he go into the questions you raised about this being the first ever prosecution and the timing? we'll see a lot of questions for him. i mean, you heard congressman byron donald's their house republicans are trying to get his testimony. he's so forest rebuffed those requests, but only i think what's also important here is the broader perspective that this may be the first indictment against trump. it may not be the last mean there are a lot of other investigations that are much more worrisome to trump's legal team, including our reporting from katelyn polantz yesterday about when it comes to documents investigation. the special counsel. there is nailing down evidence i was told secret service members are going to testify before the grand jury there. how much are are you watching that so important to keep that in mind while we are here today we are very much rightly focused on this. i think this is the least of the legal troubles in terms of the severity of conduct and we're seeing the special counsel m m m real strides in that investigation. i mean, subpoenaing and getting testimony potentially from secret service agents is a major step and by the way there is

precedent for that bill clinton's secret service agents were made to testify they actually challenge it in court and made to testify back in the 19 nineties. so let's remember this could only be the first of several indictments, which, by the way, will be playing out over the next year and change while we're in the midst of a primary season. we've never seen any sort of collision of law and politics like this. trump's legal team has said. do expect motions to dismiss here. we'll see how long it takes them. devour those a lot to watch today. ellieieiearen. thank you very much, don. obviously some key questions that still remain. we don't know what is in this indictment. we're waiting to find out just in a few hours from now. we will in a few hours. we'll get back to you. kailyn. today's arraignment, though, would likely not be happening if it were not for one person. and that is michael cohen. he is, of course, he has been a key witness for the district attorney. i want to bring it out. michael cohen's lawyer, lanny davis, he joins me now, lanny. good morning to you. thank you so much. good morning, guys. i just want to ask you right off. what are your

thoughts on the addition to the legal team, todd blanche to trump's legal team. i don't know him. i'm sure he's respectable lawyer and mr trump deserves a strong defense. the judge not allowing proceedings to be televised. do you agree with that ruling lanny? i respect a judge's balancing of the need for transparency and public interest versus the need to avoid prejudice. and we want mr trump to have a fair trial, and he's entitled to the presumption of innocence and this is a day of profound sadness that an ex president is indicted. but it's also a time to celebrate. i know michael has always stood for one thing. he stood for equal justice under the law, and mr trump is no different than any other american. we should celebrate that constitutional principle. but it's still profoundly sad day that this has come to an indictment, where he's still presumed innocent, but it's an indictment of an ex president just to get some closure on my last question.

would you prefer that there would be cameras in the courtroom and you respect with the judge says, but if you had your personally prefer oh, i didn't hear that part. sorry, don. yes, of course, i would prefer transparency and public interest and i don't see anything prejudicial about an arrangement and i would think that that would have been the judge's decision bag. last thing as a lawyer i would ever do a second jet against a judge's decision. you answered it correctly. i just changed the question up a bit for the second time, in addition to the hush money payments that michael cohen made to stormy daniels grand jury has been asking about another hush money money deal aimed at covering up alleged affair this is between trump and the former playboy model. karen mcdougal. as i'm sure you're aware of. she's made 100 and $50,000 by the national inquiry . this is what michael cohohoh, your client said on tape talking to trump in 2016 watch this and i've spoken to alan weisberg about how to set the whole thing up with. what are we gonna take funding? yes. um and it's all

the stuff all the stuff because you know, you never know where that company. you never know where he's going to be correct. so i'm i'm all over that, and i spoke to alan about it when it comes time for the financing, which will be financing have to paint your soul. no, no, no, no, no, i got you. do you expect this to be used in trial or mentioned the indictment? yes you do? yes, and there's nothing to smile about today. but i did have to smile because donald trump actually denied the word cash and you just heard it. this is about a transaction involving mr pecker has been publicly reported in the wall street journal, so i can speak about it. there's a second crime that michael kahn pled guilty to that involved mr trump and mr pecker, cashing and killing a story by former playboy playmate named karen macdougal. that will be in the case. people forget that michael cohen pled guilty to that as paying hush money. this time. it was that national enquirer paying the money, and it involves a direct

conversation and deal between mr pecker and mr trump. you can conclude your make your own conclusions that there's another witness to mr trump's crimes. and may i just add quickly that the federal district prosecutors in new york called this crime very serious, threatening our democracy. chrissy by paying somebody money not to let the american people know information before presidential election people who diminish this crime don't read what federal prosecutors described it as a serious crime, impairing our democracy. got a long way to go many questions for you and a short time to get there. so let me just say that michael cohen in that tape probably does most of the talking there. is there anything that proves a scheme to pay off macdougal was at trump's instruction or direction. not in that tape. you can infer that trump was aware of the plan for cash and kill and karen macdougal, he said. how are we going to finance it? they were talking about taking the files that they were worried about at national enquirer and also

paying money for those files that comes from michael on that tape. are you aware of any payments or any checks from trump or michael cohen to reimburse the enquirer or am i or any other entity? no not to reimburse the inquiry. but we're aware of a sitting president writing reimbursement checks for a crime with his own signature from his own checking account, and that's amazing to me how the national media has almost ignored a sitting president writing a check to pay back a crime that he was a participant in and they're just was a big yawn when we put those checks on television, okay, so i have to ask you then is michael does the talking in that tape? michael is also on television speaking you as well. um folks are wondering if he is a key witness here. if he's going to be, then why is he giving interviews? why are you giving interviews? well, we have a situation where my client i

told the truth in front of tens of millions of people and face the consequences and went to prison and his and for 10 years you admitted that he lied. now he's being attacked by everyone , including panelists at cnn without a rebuttal, and at the very least, he deserves a defense on his credibility because he did tell the truth from july 2nd 2018 going forward . we need decided to speak truth to power. he suffered the pain and consequence of his crime. the same crime was instructed directed by donald trump, according to federal prosecutors , not me, not michael. federal prosecutors said he directed that crime. if michael did the time. how could donald trump not at least be subject to the same legal consequences invited you and michael on to rebut whatever it is that you believe is false. inaccurate information about him. so you're always and if you wanted to say, what is what you believe it is. now you have every right to is there something that you want to say?

well, my final comment is just about family and michael and the life he's forced to lead. this is a terrible pain for his family. he has gone through an awful lot since he spoke the truth, he has never been contradicted. he's always been corroborated, including the attorney general of new york. i simply ask anybody commenting on michael's credibility, give him a chance after 10 years of saying on national television, i'm ashamed i did. donald trump's dirty deeds he owned what he did give him a chance, and certainly his family deserves a chance to be believed when he testifies under oath at this trial. it's not quite 10 years. i mean, it's made this six or seven years on tv, saying go on. no his work for donald trump was 10 years and he admitted. i'm sorry if i miss stated that television in national television, he said. i'm ashamed of what i did dirty deeds for donald trump. i am ashamed. i have no excuses. now i want to tell the truth. that was on february 28th 2018 19

michael going to testify in the trial. has there been an ask from the d a. so i can't discuss that would be revealing something i'm not allowed to say. but i certainly hope he will. as i said, he's been corroborated and substantiated, and this case has documents galore and other witnesses to substantiate everything that michael cohen will test it. but my producers tell me you just said that he's been asked to testify before did you say in the previous answer that he's been a statistic? he will testify. ah! he did testify before the grand jury twice. he did not take the fifth amendment. unlike donald trump, i thought he was gonna be asked for this particular thing that's coming up. all right. if he's been asked to. i just said i can't reveal that. sorry i appreciate you joining us since in this morning. thank you so much. thank you. thank you very much interesting when you asked him, especially about i think you're trying to get at the intent, right? you said did he?

you know, did the former president know about any payments to not about stormy daniels to am i or am i right? other entity? yeah. yeah, but, he said he mentioned karen macdougal has in his answer. they're going to be revealed today. once the indictment hours , so we are continuing this special live coverage of what is never happened before former president facing criminal charges in court right in this city were also live in nashville , where democratic state lawmakers who joined the gun violence protests in the state capital are now feeling political heat losing their committee assignments. will they lose their jobs? my most impoportant kitchen tool, my brn choose new areva plus, unlilike some others, areva plus is a multitasker supporting six key indicators of brain health. keep

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trump tower. we know. the former president spent the night at trump tower after his arraignment. he will head right back. to the airport, he will fly back to palm beach, florida to mar-a-lago. our live coverage on that continues, in a moment, meantime, that we want to take you to tennessee because chaos has erupted on the house floor there after republicans introduced a resolution to expel three democrats completely from the legislature. the resolution stemmed from a protest. three democratic lawmakers led last thursday on the house floor as part of their larger protests for gun reform. now those demonstrations were in response to the shooter, killing 39 year old children and three adults at coventry school in nashville last week. here's how one of those democratic lawmakers described it. the people are clearly with us. what we just saw in there was unbelievable. we took to the floor. we did speak without permission. we broke a house rule we took to the floor to speak to the people to acknowledge the people that

were here and why they were here last thursday, and that's why we spoke. we were only on the bike for 15 to 20 seconds when they cut the mic. and called a recess. the rest of the time we were in recess, and we only stayed up front for about four or five more minutes. or isabel results is live in nashville, covering all of it this morning, isabel. the question now is those three lawmakers have already lost their committee assignments, and now they may lose their seats entirely. poppy good morning to you there, certainly facing very serious consequences here. tennessee house republicans. they claim that their democratic counterparts gloria johnson, justin jones and justin pearson that they breached chamber rules last thursday, right here, right behind me at the state capitol when they supposedly approached the podium contrary to the rules without being recognized as speak with a bullhorn, so now they are certainly facing

expulsion for from the house that is very serious and they have been stripped from their committees. this is, according to cnn affiliate wsmv, citing the speaker of the house of representatives, cameron sexton. republicans have also likened this to the action of these three lawmakers to an insurrection, writing in the resolution that the three quote did knowingly and intentionally bring disorder and dishonor to the house of representatives through their individual and collective actions. now, these three lawmakers, they joined protesters here last night, chanting holding hands. they also spoke to reporters. and these lawmakers said that they were not surprised by these resolutions brought up against them. we'll see. what we're seeing today from the speaker from the leadership from the majority white majority republican caucus is fear. it's fear of having folks who are going to speak up about gun control. this is a political lynching. they're trying to make an example out of us because

we're three of the most outspoken members here. and this final vote on these resolutions . they will come on thursday. meanwhile here in tennessee, we're seeing wide scale protests that just do not seem to stop. of course, many students, parents demanding gun reform hobby. yeah. making their voices heard after those murders at covenant school, isabelle thank you very much. doctor. disney is taking aim at florida's governor ron desantis, a company ceo bob iger, slamming the republican calling his actions anti yesterday, iger said that governor desantis is retaliating against the disney company for coming out against the state's so called don't say gay bill. never comments came the same day that governor ron desantis ordered an investigation. into the board in charge of disney special self governing district state appointed a new board to take over that district. but last month, the current board quietly stripped away its own powers and handed them directly

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the dentist. call now or go to send info kit dot com physicians , mutual physicians mutual cnn news, central. morning and welcome back. we are live outside the manhattan courthouse where for president trump has set to surrender just hours from now. right now, he is at trump tower as he is preparing to turn himself in and become the first ex president in us history to face criminal charges. here's what we're expecting today. for now, though, a lot is still unknown. trump is set to appear in court in the two o'clock hour today after his arraignment, he is planning to return to florida and give a primetime speech at mar-a-lago. tonight, addressing this publicly for the first time since he got here yesterday, the judge has decided overnight that he will not allow news cameras in the courtroom during trump's hearing, no laptops, no phones.

that means the american public will not be able to watch the hearing, though, poppy. and don, we should note. of course, there will be still photographers in the room at the beginning, so we will see some photos of trump in the room. there just aren't going to be those cameras after we did say yesterday, trump's team argued against having them in there. a lot of folks did want them though. even you know , some folks, we respect a lot, andrew mccabe said. i thought it would cut down on the part of the media organizations that you know we have won it. but but for anyone who says, well, we're not going to know what set in court. yes you can. you can read the entire transcript of what happens in thatttroombut,, it wl to see let's bring it now cnn political commentator and former special adviser to president barack obama, mr van jones. former trump campaign adviser. republican strategist, mr david urban. he doesn't say my name that way, poppy heart. uh but listen, we need a little levity because this is good morning. to both of you. this is big. this is big van. yeah give us some

perspective on this. look i mean , some of the images today will be in history books. uh 100 years from now, when people are talking about photos in court, the court will be in history books. this is a really, really big deal. and the question is, does this prove that ourururm one is above the law. that the law applies to everyone. are we going to be stronger as a result, or is this going to be seen as something that was more political that this was? you know, a witch hunt . that's going to be the debate today and for a very long time. we'll know a lot more today, though, that's going to be helpful just in terms of facts versus misinformation and assumptions that have been made will see the indictment that'll be unsealed. but then tonight we know we'll hear from the president. he's going to speak from mar-a-lago. former president. thank you. what do you expect? to be to you will see. what do you expect him to say? i don't know. that's the only thing you can tell about the only thing that's certain is uncertainty. so i don't know what he's gonna say. i do agree

with van, though, in terms of you know the historic nature? that's right. you can't over overstate how important it is, and unfortunately, i do believe . i mean we had polling yesterday. you know, cnn's poll had 76% of americans think it's political. it's politically motivated, right? there's a quinnipiac poll out the week before 62% of that, and that includes that includes democrats , democrats and independents. should we read into that? that they don't believe it should happen? because that's a separate? i don't think i don't know what people think it should happen. believe it's politically motivated, right? and so i think that two vans point, right? i said this before, 22 years ago, i was a young chief of staff, the united states senator and the clinton impeachment and, uh, you know, clinton just like trump. he was impeached. he was tried. the senate acquitted and then he had legal jeopardy kind of lingering over him. he had this indictment possible indictment for lying to a grand jury, and robert ray, who was a special counsel at the time, said you know he was a lot of pressure for robert ray to indict bill clinton. go back and look at the clips and you'll see

it was tremendous and ray on the last day of the clinton presidency, january, 19th 2001 cut a deal with the president to not indict him and he said history and american people will judge whether i did the right thing here or not, and i think history looking back says that robert ray did the right thing and not indicting the president for that charge. i think history won't be so kind to alvin ray in this case, because i do think this this case is individual case here we're talking about is too political brag, brag. the difference was, that was when clinton was president. he was leaving the president last day, the last day of his presidency. he cut a deal with him we remember from i was just gonna bring up the jones case and were and what the supreme court said in that case that was civil, not criminal. but it did say that you can you know the president accountable to big head? yeah i'll say is, we don't know yet. we haven't seen anything. we've been speculating about the speculation of the speculators until we see what bragg has. i think it's premature for us to

say that he doesn't have anything i do want to do. i do understand that people are concerned that that's one thing. it's in the balance right now. we just don't know. and that's why i think you're gonna have the eyes of the world today looking at this courtroom looking at our process, but what i will say is this donald trump is not the only human being going down today. who's going to be having his life in the hands of a prosecutor? so many republicans saying this is terrible. this seems like maybe they're being tougher on our people, and they're not. that's everyday in our justice system. you have prosecutors who are making decisions about who to charge and how to charge and you have human beings who are there in front of the full weight of the court and the full face of the state. and the republicans were so upset right now about what's going on with donald trump. i hope that just that concerned about the other hundreds of people who are down there, the prosecutor's prosecutor, prosecutorial discretion, right is abused and lots of different places across america. don't reach disagree with that. i was some other point in time. i'll tell you over beer was the jury foreman in a rape trial. and alexandria , virginia, long time ago, and it was an incredibly eye opening

experience for me, and i suggest most americans if you get you know, you get a jury summons. don't try to get out of it right serve, do your duty and serve on those cherries because exactly what van says happens every day. he's raising a lot of money. donald trump says sorry, stallion. i believe it again. it points back to that. that that, uh the cnn survey right that the it's saying, if 76% of americans believe it's a politically motivated 90, plus percent of republicans believe that it's politically motivated. it's easy to press a button and say, hey, help me fight back on this political attack. hey, babies! money! we gotta go. donald trump's doing all the talking. biden president biden not what's your strategy to stay out of it ? stay out of class at class act . you really don't want the president, united states wing and on any criminal case against anybody, let alone on an opponent and potential future a future apartment, only saying that he trusts the legal system. that's as much as he would say. thank you. thank you, david. good to see you guys this morning. we're learning just how high tech the chinese spy

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period of days in january was able to capture imagery and some signals intelligence from american military sites, a source tells cnn at the balloon was also able to transmit that information back to china in real time we want to bring in now cnn's natasha bertrand at the pentagon this morning. good morning, natasha. good to see you. what else has the intelligence community being able to gather from the balloon wreckage? yes down to the fbi is still investigating that wreckage, and we're told that they have been able to learn some interesting things about, for example, the algorithms that power the balloon software and other things about how the balloon was actually able to maneuver and importantly, how it was able to communicate back with beijing. we are told that this balloon when it was traveling over the united states back in february, it was able to capture images as well as collect signals intelligence about sensitive military installations across the united states, and it was able to send that information back to china

in near real time now we are told by officials that they're not overly concerned about what the chinese balloon was actually able to collect, because it is not that much more sophisticated than what a chinese satellite, for example, would be able to gather every day. but we're also told that it is still unclear to the u. s government. whether or not this balloon was effectively controlled by beijing in such a way that china could then basically a race the data from that balloon and make it virtually impossible for the us to know for sure what it actually collected. but the deputy pentagon press secretary, she did say yesterday that regardless of what exactly the balloon collected, which the u. s. is still assessing. it clearly had a very deliberate trajectory over the us and knew what it wanted to surveil. here's what you said. we do know that the balloon was able to be maneuvered and purposely driven along its track, but not going to get into specific sites. it was able to hover over but what we did do is take precautionary

steps to limit the intelligence value that it would be able to collect. so the u. s now saying they knew pretty much where this balloon was going to go, and they took steps to protect those sensitive sites from being able to be surveilled really closely by this balloon, don. yeah wow. but just think and the ability to transmit a real time, natasha. thank you very much. it is a busy morning of news. but in connecticut, it is the morning of conversation you can has completed its impressive run through the tournament next hour, will be joined by the coach. dan hurley. picture excited for this. caleb, we're finding this out in real time. everyone has to because we didn't know that at the start of the show. yeah yeah, that's gonna be so excited. i can't wait to watch that. obviously they had a massive win last night. we're tracking that. also of course, the historic developments that are happening here outside the manhattan criminal court. that is where trump is set to be arraigned and

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out or the most dominant runs in tournament history. people used to say tournament 100. they though maybe that was something that we didn't louisiana. it was just my family. hundreds of excited fans went pouring into the streets celebrate, but then some students began climbing and taking down lampposts. not good . one was even used to break one of the doors to the student union building. police took several students into custody. sally that happens, excited for them, but we shouldn't let that ruin. the celebration and then you're right going to join us. the coach coach says popping coach soon we're going to be joined by the huskies coach dan hurley. i love that picture. maybe he'll do that he'll repeat it while i see the women's national championship. the l s u tigers will be invited to the white house, as is tradition. but yesterday, the first lady dr jill biden, said she's also considering inviting the runner up iowa. i know we'll have the

champions come to, um to the white house. we always do. so you know, we'll have lsu come. but you know what? i'm going to tell joe. i think iowa should come to because they played such a good game. so right, so winners and losers that sportsmanship that's good sportsmanship. we'll see what happens. i'll tell you a star. l s u player angel reese tweeted her response to that idea, calling it quote a joke as losing teams don't normally get an invite. reese has been receiving a lot of criticism for making that hand gesture towards katelyn polantz as ls you won the title on sunday when asked about the backlash, reese agreed. clark is a hell of a player. that's a quote. but she pointed out. hey clark made the same gesture to another player during the semifinal. so look, i gotta tell you, i am keenly aware of the double standard society when it comes to black and white, especially folks who are in positions of on television or in a high profile position, understand what she is

saying. i think she's right about that. i do, however, think i think she's right about it double standards because the other player did the exact same gesture. the hand gesture. um look, i think the first lady i don't think her sentiments are off, right? i think that she is coming from a good place with this, but the tradition has been no matter what sport it is. that the winner goes to the white house. now perhaps a winner. there can be a compromise can go to the white house. the winners and then there will be a separate event because of how monumental and historic this is for women's sports. this does elevators. we've had conversations here. this does women's sports need to be elevated. it should happen, and this will elevate it if you have both of them at the white house, and there's some sort of kumbaya after the winners go to the white house, right, and you have some sort of summit and whatever this elevates women's sports, and i think it's a good idea. yeah. and i think it was the highest scoring game ever right

and it was just exciting to watch. it was just really exciting to watch. you had the athleticism but also then the coaches well what she's wearing, and i so relate to that, because that's how we get over to the white house exactly be a great one. but it's been amazing to watch and we're very happy for them. congratulations to all huge day ahead right here in new york. so cnn this morning continues right now. good morning, everyone. we are just hours away from witnessing history here in manhattan, poppy . and don, as you know. well trump is preparing to turn himself into this building behind me. that is 100 center street. that is where for the first time in american history and ex president is going to appear in court as a criminal defendant, and i think what you're looking at earlier that was trump tower where the president is going to leave in a couple of hours to head down

there to where caitlin is, but we won't be able to watch bet on tv, meaning that hearing part we'll see how he gets back and forth. the judges decided that there will be no cameras, meaning like video cameras are live cameras in the courtroom during the proceedings, but still cameras will be in in the beginning. we'll explain all of this. we will also, trump is shaking up his legal team with a new edition right before this historic arrangement. katelyn polantz. can you tell us . this may be something that new addition to the legal team doesn't want to see. but i am told that trump is itching to speak about his indictment today. obviously he's not scheduled to do so right now here while he is here in manhattan, is not expected to speak until he returns tomorrow. i'll go tonight where we do know he's going to speak to a ballroom with hundreds of his supporters has surrogates, his allies who are expected to gather there tonight. but i'm hearing from people that trump really wants to talk about this today while he is here in new york, and if two weeks ago when he had initially claimedwa