site that's d w dot com. ah, donald trump is no stranger to legal troubles. actually, he's been under investigation for much of his life. over the last 5 decades, he's been involved in thousands of lawsuits, but today it became obvious that not even he is above the law. the former u. s. president termed himself in new york city criminal court. he was charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records, a humbling moment, sure. but one he is certain to exploit his political advantage. tonight, we take a closer look at the case that hurdles, donald j. trump and the united states, into uncharted legal and political territory, article for the him, berlin, and this is the day ah,

a person of the united states is arrested in the building behind me. i. i'm excited for justice to be served all to search online, and i think this is just the political persecution for water that they don't live as always, we will not allow blemish or vandalism of any time, no matter who you all honeys, very divided at this point. so it's important that we understand it's not just also on the day nato doubles, it's border with russia by welcoming a new member into the alliance. ah,

this is a story. we welcome for him long as the news member of our lives. it is a great day for finland, and i want to see the deities an important day for nato to ah, welcome to the show. is nothing short of a watershed moment for the political and criminal system in the united states. for the 1st time in history, a former us president is facing criminal charges. donald j. trump turned himself into a court and manhattan and pleaded not guilty to $34.00 felony charges. trump did not speak to the media inside or outside the court house. he showed little emotion when he waved to crowds as he arrived to turn himself in. had been driven in a motorcade from his new york residence a trump tower. he's accused of falsifying business records in relation to hush

money payments, allegedly made to several people in the run up to the 2016 election. after the arraignment, the judge released trump from custody without pre trial restrictions. and the charges against trump come from an investigation led by manhattan district attorney albany bragg here is brags speaking to the press, just minutes after trump left. the court under new york state law is a felony to falsified business records with intent to the fraud. it intends to conceal another crime that is exactly with his cases about $34.00 false statements made to cover up other crimes. these are felony crimes in new york state. no matter who you are. we cannot and will not normalize serious criminal conduct. i'm d w. washington bureau chief is paul, is outside the court building in manhattan,

where trump was arraigned. enos trump has pleaded not guilty on all 34 counts. what can you tell us about the charges? yeah, that was quite a day here. nicole, we started really early and it was really intense. helicopters are still cruising over the court. i saw to simplify what's happened. the prosecutors are saying they're donald trump broke election law by falsifying business records to cover up bad information about him. information which might have heard his chances to become elected as the president of the united states. many people here and probably around tonight is states and maybe even around the world we're hoping for some bomb shelves today to be disclosed. they might be disappointed because we didn't really learn a really, very new things, but it still might be far too early. really, to say are what we are. will be a kind of learning over the course of the next days. because this is just like the

very 1st moment after we heard about the charges and the historic court appearance has drawn huge crowns. there was concern about possible altercations who was there today. and what did they have to say about this whole affair? read them a 100, so for people in front of the court house before donald trump arrived and they also were there. and when he was inside and they came, many of them came really from outside and new york. and as always, in these cases, you see those who are in support of donald trump, and those are very critical with them. i had the chance to talk with some of them. let's have a listen. what they told me is going to hunt them. absolutely. i mean, listen, he was indeed he was an impeach. twice. he was under investigation since he came down the elevator in 2016 and they couldn't find anything. so this is

just a distraction from what's really going on in this country where the binary shame, i think this is a very serious moment right now, and it's wonderful that he is being held accountable for the crime that he's committed. this is the 1st i'm sure of many indictments that's going to come his way. i want to make sure that president trump doesn't get, you know, run over by this attorney general brag. and, and it's a politically motivate which on against him. i don't think it's going to hurt him. i think we, the people stand for trump and that's why we're here today. i think the da did his job. he followed the facts in the fact led to an indictment. this wasn't a case where it was influenced. i would like donald trump took out a full page ads against 5 black kids and said that should be executed. this wasn't the case where police officers lying on a record. he simply fall the diffraction that led to indictment. and now we have to let the prost place. oh, it already helped. it helped him yesterday. so it helped him the day before. so obviously it's going to help him today. he got a 10 percent boost in the bowls. rhonda st just got

a 10 percent negative in the poll just so you see i, we just, i heard that this is also one of these very divisive issues in the united states in the call. and as little as we know what the outcome will be, we already know that this will be really a money machine for donald trump, because he's always able to turn attention into dollar. it's like only 24 hours after the indictment was analysis. and friday, his campaign at least says he was able to fund raise $4000000.00. so this is anyhow, what he's going to make out of this appearance here today at the courthouse behind me. and no such thing as bad felicity. that's one of his big mottoes in his pull. joining us from new york city, great speaking to you now for more on the 1st criminal charges to ever be brought against a former or sitting president of the united states. let's bring and mark fisher.

he's a senior editor at the washington post. mr. fisher, welcome to the day. now over the years, trump has been involved in many investigations. how come until now? none of them had led to an indictment. well, he's been a master of lading the court system. he's a master of delay, he's already speaking to the way this trial. he's a master of marketing himself, was already selling t shirts, and he's campaigned websites that show him with a fake mug shots for $47.00. you can get one of those t shirts and it says not guilty across the front of it. so he's someone who's able to move the legal system to his own bed. and he's been able to speak by using the system to delay tactics. attacking those were coming after the attack when he attacked with judge prosecutor. so this is, these are pages from all stand the same, both the federal news or 5 decades to escape legal troubles. can you do it again?

we're certainly, this is going to be a dominant factor in the coming. yeah, he has been charged with 34 accounts of falsifying business records in the 1st degree. how serious is this? these are serious felons. the lowest plan only, you know, one. busy didn't go to prison for all of these kinds of acts. busy but he will be punished and he will face some serious consequences in an effort to perhaps to stop him from running for the 3rd time for president. but in all likelihood, this is when you switch out over the course of the campaigns, the prosecution wants this trial to start in january of next year. the defense where you said no, let's wait to spring well into the presidential campaign. judge hasn't decided quite yet. when the trial starts, but it's going to be probably a year long process. yeah, the judge wants to get this underway as soon as possible as well. but let's not

forget that trump is also being investigated, at least for other cases, isn't he? in some analysts argue that it's not ideal that this one was the 1st case for him to be indicted for why is that? well just. busy case base has the center of the payments and push the money to a woman who actually was to women who said that he had sexual relations with them were sought. and so miss case, it's the kind of behavior that some people, some americans by the private behavior should not be prosecuted. whereas the other investigations that are on the way that may need to come weeks are of much more senior matters of policy and governance. matters of whether trump sought to overturn the results of the 2020 election, whether he secreted away classified documents after his president was over. so

these are the kinds of issues that i think would have a much wider public us according prosecution. in those cases, the trump case you mentioned before is busy trying to spin this in his favor and getting lots of backing from their supporters actually. but i want to ask you as someone who's been watching from very closely over the years, you rode a biography of his that this is a day he is long hoped would never come, isn't it? how do you think he personally feels about all this? well, you could tell by looking at the pictures that emerge or someone who's angry, missed having to go through this process. he's, this is davis is avoided for years. so he's, he's clearly shaken by this. on the other hand, way he always works. these things is to be open, to take the anger and turn to advantage the rest of the aspect of his campaign and

his business wants to make money off. this seems to be that track record the fact that only a handful of republicans have spoken out against this candidacy in light of his indictment. what does that tell us about his remaining power over the republican party because political instance would be to immediately instrumental license wasn't it? well, we'll see. so for the most. busy speaking by him as they watched the holes as they watch out of the base to this indictment. but they've been a real with a weight functional both along with publicly and independent voters and among some officeholders as well over the last several months. and whether that will continue or not, we'll have to see if there's a tremendous consensus and this country won't. jo kress, republicans like other people do not want to see either donald trump or joe biden.

money for offices. what we want to new generation leadership or large majorities who say that so we're gonna stick with that work fuel. sympathetic to trump feel that he'd be well wrote for political reasons. that's when we develop over the coming months and it's, it's anybody's guess lists very true, mark fisher of the washington post. thank you so much for those insights o finland is hailing it as the beginning of a new era. after decades of non alignment, the north country has firmly joined the nato military alliance. russia's full scale invasion of ukraine led to a change of heart, followed by the quickest accession process and nato's recent history. and much to vladimir putin chagrin an alliance that is now bigger than ever. finland was officially welcomed as the 31st member at the alliance's headquarters in brussels,

finish foreign minister of pick a hobbies still signed the official accession document and handed it to you as secretary of state. antony blinking, blinking seized the opportunity to ask turkey and hungary to also ratify sweetness requests to join the alliance. new member, finland has a 1300 kilometer long border with russia, and one of the strongest land based militaries in europe. and about this historic day for nato and for finland, i can now speak to henry, bon hon, and he is a research fellow at the finish institute of international affairs, mr. hon. and good to see you. a finland's non alignment is a thing of the past. how significant is this for the country? it certainly represents the end of an era. and also it is linked to the end of an era more broadly in european security. with russia innovating the print, we saw sort of collapse so of respect for any kind of rules based

secure at the order in europe. and i think what finland did is just basically drew the conclusion of this development and so ending the arrow minutes are not alignment for finland as well. but i would say that it also ends finance long journey to the west in general. the started, especially after the 2nd world war with 1st the dean de creation of between already countries and then gradually degrading economically is the west and didn't. ready europe in union and now nate, so, so the, in many ways, the sort of western gender of finland. the circle is now complete with joining nato now. but nato membership is not a one way street. is that what does a finland bring to the table? well, of course, one must not forget that finland actually has very modern capability as it has modernized, states, navy vessels. it's about to get 60 for loo, f $35.00. fire is starting from 2026. it has the one of the was the strongest. the

artillery is in western europe, it has a wartime strength of 280000. it fulfills the 2 percent done, g, d, p, r on defense. so we're actually looking at a country that takes its national security quite seriously, and actually does contribute to the security of and only the baltic sea, but also the arctic region. so you're looking at a country that has actually capabilities to provide in pretty much all, all the domains, but also, you know, geographically white area. russia has react and to finance, accession thing, it weakens security in the wider range and increases the risk of conflict and would force moscow to take counter measures. how is the saber rattling being received in finland? well, to be honest, it's something that finland has been preparing for quite some time. now it also, it goes to saint mary rhetoric that who has used for years now when he has spoken

about finland, potential nato membership. and we were expecting for these kind of statements to, to increase. and i think we're going to see a lot more of that because that when finland is now a member of nate. so it also. ready becomes a part of this russian sort of perception of enemies and we're going to see a lot more harsh rhetoric and potentially in the fall future russia when he tries to build back its losses in the warranty crating for its army and trust to build that back he will most likely do some kind of true maneuver. it goes to the territories of fin on in those borders. but other than that, i think it's just merely rhetoric because russia at the moment is basically occupied, occupying other countries. and how important is it for finland to get sweden into the alliance as well? now? isn't a central question? no doubt? one must understand that if you look at the geostrategic map of love in europe, but also tried to plan the defense of this region,

you immediately can see that sweden is basically a potential hub for nato operations as, as a platform to provide troops, security of supply ammunition and also the so called to teach depth, which you will need in a crisis scenario. it could be a vital interest for finished national security to involve sweden in as soon as possible. and we also know that nato's operational planning is only open to nato members. so as long as sweden is outside nato, that means that nato will not be able to start the actual operational planning of northern europe and even hot enough to finish institute of international affairs. thanks for your time. thank you. ah, systemic rivals or a strategic autonomy or both european commission president was left on the line as traveling to china this week, just days after laying out

a framework to rebalance the ease relations with beijing shall be joining frances president. him on your my. com for talks expected to focus on trade and the war and ukraine. the joint visit meant to underscore european unity comes at a time when the eas, main partner, the united states, has been seeking to isolate china. he went german chancellor, olaf sholtes, and he went, shar michelle of the european council, and he went spanish prime minister pedro sanchez, all made the pilgrimage to beijing shuttle diplomacy with a major player on the world stage. but not just diplomacy. they all went to talk trade, that trading relationship is huge. you countries exported $240000000000.00 worth goods to china last year. much of that was in high margin items like heavy machinery, energy infrastructure and cars. european countries also don't want to be

side large. as china's international influence grows. beijing is asserting itself, not just in asia, but in africa and the middle east. setting the stage for a superpower rivalry with the u. s. chinese communist parties can be a go. is a systemic change of the international order with china at its center. we have seen it with china's positions in multilateral bodies, which show its determination to promote an alternative vision of the world order. closer to home, europeans want china to help rain in russian aggression against ukraine. china is russia's economic lifeline. and at the end of march chinese president, she's paying made a high profile visit to moscow. spain has pressed she to meet with his ukranian counterpart as well. so far to no avail,

others want to prod beijing harder. oh, china continues to interact with proteins. war will be a determining factor for you. china relations going follow it. as a permanent member of the security council, china has a responsibility to safeguard the principles and values that lie at the heart of the un charter. and china has a responsibility to play a constructive role in advantages and bouncing a just peace. beijing has been tight lipped about russia's war, aside from releasing a 12 point piece plan that was dismissed by the west is overly vague and too easy on moscow. the 1st point called for nations to respect territorial integrity and sovereignty,

but made no specific demands on russia in regard to its invasion of its neighbor. so far, europe doesn't have much to show for its attempts to influence beijing. european leaders might ask themselves how much more credibility to invest without alienating the u. s. a traditional ally that is doing all it can to isolate china. beckett and dec parent jointly now for more from brussels. jack will china's actions over ukraine really determine the eas attitude to its largest trading partner? yes, to be question nicole, when a live on the line, the european commission president outline did not speech her plan. she said that it was the 2 de risk not to decouple from china. that's the plant bearing in mind that you m exports in china might to about 9 percent of the whole trading relationship that the you has and 20 percent of everything that you imports comes from china. specifically, things like lithium, really important in batteries, which are

a priority issue for the use green transition. 97 percent of the use lithium comes from china. having said that, the european union officials, the i've spoken to people from the member states of the you that are watching this visit by a sort of on the line and a manual. but micron closely said that that speech did broadly distill what the european union's overarching position is that they want to keep a relationship with china. but the china has to do more, a must play a bigger role in trying to get russia to end the war. and ukraine, how much weight do these words have though, if they're followed by a state visit, joined by dozens of business representatives hoping to strike 1000000000 dollar deal? yeah, this is the really big question. we had that the outline of all of the people in the delegation and in the, in the sort of entourage that are going behind with a manual micron, 53 business leaders from france are going along with him. and that was the criticism that was really heavily leveled at the german chancellor la shows when he recently visited china,

that this was all about business. we've heard human rights charities across europe in the world saying that europe isn't using it's leverage against china to try and look into things like the place of the wiggers and changing, and other human rights issues. also to put leverage on china regarding the issue of taiwan as well. the lithuanian foreign ministers being tweeting today saying that the risking is just a simple, a short term strategy. a quick fix to deal with the relationship with china. bearing mind his country put a de facto embassy in taipei in taiwan. and has received a barrage of criticism and sort of a trading fries from the chinese and had a downgrading of diplomatic relations. so that's one of you members state is facing sort of the, the full force of chinese, you know, unpleasant actions in the wake of something they've done. so there is a lot of pressure on what us lawanda, lion, and want manual micron are going to do as we say, the thing a big business i'll delegation. they've made some strong statements here in europe

. how hard will they go when they meet with shipping? in asia, well, we have a couple of seconds left, but the you would like to seen china take a step back from its no limits, friendship with russia, with so many liter showing that their economies need china. what is their leverage if they have any at all at this point? no, sir, it's the trading relationship because well, china, well the eas, relying on china, china is also reliant on your, of the import export relationship as well. i spoke to a couple of experts. one said that the most important thing now is that european leaders get that message straight. the string of european leaders that have been traipsing through beijing may have been giving incoherent and mixed messages. and i think that's what micron bonded line will try to do show unified european face. and that's our time jack parent, thank you so much and for myself and the entire team here on the day. thank you so much for spending parts of your day with

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