with taking all the powers that be, they risk everything, john dunbar, meets activists, journalists, and politicians living in exile. they live to whichever they live for their mission. what drives them? people need to know what is happening there were series guardians of truth. watch now on youtube, d. w documentary donald trump didn't say much during his arraignments in a court in new york city. yes, i do not guilty. that was pretty much it. he didn't speak to the press or his supporters heading in or out. immediately after his court appearance, he flew back to florida. as the whole world was watching history unfold, the former president almost seemed speechless. but back in front of his supporters

and mar logo, he returned to his tried and tested ways. he lashed out against the investigation, portrayed himself as the victim and repeated baseless claims of voter fraud. among many other lies and just like that, he managed to turn the day of his arrest and to a campaign event for his re election under co, really him, berlin. and this is the day ah, the only crime i've committed is to fearless. we defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it. trump will be trump, which is that he will use this for publicity even if it's in the negative publicity . this fake jays was brought only to interfere with the upcoming 2024 election. and it should be dropped off in

a from and they don't both for him and veto presidency. so i think in the end of july and it has contained, if you, once again, also on the day ukraine's president will let him re zalinski, makes a rare trip abroad, visiting one of his most important allies and getting a promise of more fighter jets at steady need for mig 20 nines are being delivered as of on it, which brings the total take. 8 polish mig 20 nines delivered to ukraine's mccovie movie. and today i told presidents lensky that we are ready to deliver another 6 which are undergoing maintenance. the soft scope of on your systems i could share. ah, welcome to the day. it's 20 months until the us goes to the polls to pick a new president. but there is one candidate who is already dominating the race. donald trump,

trump who served one term as president as seen as the frontrunner to clench the republican nomination, but he's also facing criminal charges after his historic indictment in new york on tuesday, trump ended his day in court back at his home in florida, telling a crowd of his supporters, that he's the victim of a politically motivated plot by the democrats to derail his bed, to return to the white house. this fate case was brought only to interfere with the upcoming 2024 election. and it should be dropped immediately. he attacked me with an onslaught of fraudulent investigations, russia, russia, russia, ukraine, ukraine, ukraine, impeachment hoax, number one, and peach for hoax number to the illegal and unconstitutional raid on maro logo right here. but now they have really stepped up their efforts by indicting

the 45th president of the united states. and this is where we are right now. i have a trumpeting judge with the trumpeting wife and family whose daughter worked for kamala harris, and now receives money from the biden harris campaign and a lot of it. now in his speech, trump claim that every single pundit and legal analyst says there is no case against him. so i'm very happy to have a legal expert on the show to get her take on it. jennifer tom is a law professor at western new england university school of law and join me now. miss tub. welcome to the day. so $34.00 felony charges, but is there a case? yes, there absolutely is a case. and the way to see that is to look outside of the indictment into the statement of facts as well as the address that the district attorney gave to the public after the arraignment. which makes very clear that these are serious charges,

added least some of them. if not, all of them will stand up under, under a court scrutiny, which we should expect then let's pick it apart. why are these financial crimes being treated as felonies and not as misdemeanors? well, the financial crimes that have actually been charge and the diamond are on the books as felonies. the statute that is actually referenced here is the felony falsification of business records. in the 1st degree. what makes it a felony is that if you make a false statement in your financial records, and then in addition to intending to defraud with the false statement, you also use that all they meant to either cover up or further a nother felony, then statement, charge itself so what are those other violations? what are those other felonies that he would have paved the way for?

was this proven to be true? so what so fascinating here is the indictment that the grand jury issued does not name those underlying felony is much to the shock of many lawyers, but they don't need to name them in the statement of fact, they describe what they're likely to be and they're really 3 type, one would be a federal campaign violation was election law violation. the 2nd would be a state meaning a new york state law criminal law that was violated related to the election. and then the 3rd, which is the most common thing, is a state tax law violation in what the da albin, brad has said, is that they will be giving the jury these different avenues to choose from all the entire need. indictment needs to do is state which it does and these 34 count that

this is the felony violation of the falsification of business records law. the burden of proof is incredibly high here and of course the public scrutiny is as well what path to think the prosecution is going to go down to, to actually prove their case. what's interesting that you should mentioned the burden of proof because as you know, to convict someone, the burden of proof is beyond a reasonable doubt. however, just to do the indictment, it's much lower. it's just probable cause to indict. so the next step, the prosecution is actually going to be on the defensive a little bit. at the i read the court transcript. what the court transcript did say is that they're expecting isn't defense said donald trump. players are expecting to file a motion to challenge the indictment itself. they will have,

they looked at giving them plenty of time. they're saying no later than i think august 5th of this year, donald trump's lawyers will make their objections. what they're waiting to do is look at the discovery they're going to be seeing the documents that were presented to the grand jury and so on. and then they're going to challenge the indictment, which will then, the court will have to decide whether some or all of it can move forward. in terms of the prosecution's case, you know, this trial, the earliest this trial will be. ready is, is january of 2024 and they were even talking and core about it more likely being tried about a year from now. and so i expect, you know, sorry, go ahead. it's going to be top primary season then, isn't it? how do you think this will affect the race to become the republican candidate? so far, donald trump is a leading candidate to a publican party. the republican party has now become the mazda party that make

america great. again, with the over towns, you know, sort of authoritarianism, the echoes of america 1st, which ties back to, you know, ties back to authoritarian and fascist movements in the us. that's who the party is controlled by right now. so i don't see that hurting him, but they're going to be other charges most likely brought against me quite a busy campaign season while he's, he's trying to make the court appearances, which this judge said that he can't skip. this is really important that he has to show up when there is a court date, because if he doesn't, the judge said, then we can waive your right to appear in the future. yeah. and so he said he understood that in trump's lawyers want to see the case dismissed before it even goes to court. right. you, you pointed that out before, but one of his attorneys has said that this should be, if it does go to court, be the quickest verdict in history and what their strategy to get there. you think?

i don't you know, that high per billy. i don't know what the quickest verb is, is an entry in this case is already gone to court, right. a judge has already, you know, has already presided over this arraignment in terms of being heard before a jury. i don't know how used to cure a quick acquittal, but let's keep in mind that donald trump, businesses were convicted of the very same crimes of business records. falsification related to under the table tax payments in front of the same judge that a jury convicted his 2 businesses or 2 of his businesses, the trump corporation and trump, a real corporation. so that was a very quick verdict too. so i wouldn't be hoping for a quick verdict because it may not go away that his lawyers expect it does one way or another look like we're in for a long right. what is next for both sides? the next thing that we will see is discovery shared. there are some documents

within the next week. the prosecution will be handing over to the democrat defense team. and then with it another few weeks or months will be another bunch of documents. and then finally, you know, more of them. so basically most of what's going to be happening is the defense team is going to be able to take a look at the, the evidence that the prosecution has, has developed some of the evidence that is, but mostly what they're going to see is the, the documentation and the witness transcript and so on that the grand jury was able to look at because remember, the 1st legal challenge is that the that the grand jury should not have returned this indictment. and the grounds under new york law include that the evidence was not sufficient to make the probable cause finding or that the grand jury was somehow defective. in order to do that,

they need to scour all of that information in order to make their argument. and the judge said on december 4th of this year, the judge will make a decision as to whether all or parts of the indictment stand. that's a long wait for us until then there is a real criminal case pending against the former president. yeah, he is also being investigated and for other cases does this indictment have an effect on these other proceedings? it's just a different jurisdiction right. there is an investigation by the ga, the fulton county, which is a county prosecutor in georgia. and then there are 2 federal cases, what folks may know, but not fully appreciate, is that under federalism in the united states, we have, obviously we have 50 states and then we have the federal government. but the way each state kind of does things a bit differently. for example,

we're hearing about the district attorney from manhattan. so this is local prosecutor from the, from the county where manhattan is, which is the or county has the authority to enforce all the new york criminal laws in new york. similar that are within manhattan. similar, this district attorney in georgia and fulton county is enforcing all of georgia law in her jurisdiction. and then separately, we have these 2 cases that the new special counsel jack is looking at a, regarding federal law violations in connection with donald trump, cording those documents at mar logo as well as the all of the associated crimes. including unlike obstruction and possibly insurrection related charge is related to the january 6th attack on the capital. the lead up to that in terms of, you know, the false electors as well as the attack itself. so there's a lot going on there. going to be a lot of lawyers involved and you know, you know,

a lot of chaos in his life. i would imagine a lot going on. thank you so much for breaking it down for us. jennifer top ah, ukraine's president voluntary zalinski doesn't travel much paying only a handful of visits to key allies since russia's full scale invasion over a year ago. now he has made another rare war time trip abroad to neighboring poland . poland has been one of ukraine's closest and most local allies and has provided extensive military aid. it was the 1st country to send leopard battle tings and now poland has also pledged a cent ukraine. all of its remaining make fighter jets on top of those already promised ah, standing shoulder to shoulder ukraine's president on a visit to one of his country. staunchest allies followed amir zalinski was

awarded bolan's highest order. the order of the white eagle he lito leader, read the doom of the unknown soldier in warsaw his gestures as for chest, but crucially for you, korean borland on foot to seek more needle security guarantees. full, keep at an upcoming summit, said lawrence, it would, i am firmly convinced that we will succeed in obtaining such guarantees for ukraine as well as an introduction to ukraine's future for membership and nato, which poland strongly supports him, foul cries, kegler morsa is also the 1st needle member to send fighter jets to ukraine at that image for mig 20 nines are being delivered as if on that which brings the total to 8 polish mig 20 nines delivered to ukraine's mccovie movie. and today, i told presidents lensky that we are ready to deliver another 6, which are undergoing maintenance. e solve to go to one of them's lacresha. the

bench sounds as if i think in the future we will be able to deliver the rest of our mig 29 fleet to ukraine just if it is needed as early benches to back up on saba. he'd keep out of manama. i. d. zalinski packed his horse and said he wanted poland as one of the main nations fallen in had been rebuild ukraine. virtually wimbledon, stay an important point in our relations is the reconstruction of ukraine. it's a g 's not it will bring our businesses closer. our nations closer then it's important for us that poland be one of the main partners, and the reconstruction of ukraine will deal green. it's a rare trip abroad during wartime for zalinski. a shaw of tanks for poland support for keith. holland has taken more than a 1000000 refugees, many of whom gathered outside the presidential palace, where the 2 leaders we're meeting and for our let's brain sophie arts, she's

a program officer for security and defense at the german marshall fund in washington. good to see. this was a trip, 1st and foremost, to thank poland for its support since the start of the war. what role has warsaw played since the full scale invasion? it's really played a huge role. and the relationship between the 2 countries has been very strong, and poland has been one of the staunchest supporters on ukraine's side, along with other allies on the eastern flank. and i think a lot of that goes back to the fact that they given their geographic location, they really share this assessment of russia as an exit at extension thread. um and this of this battle over ukraine as a mixed existential frontline. and so it's, it's, there's a huge importance placed on this relationship from both sides and poland has been supporting ukraine from the very start. s your colleagues have pointed out with supporting and taking in refugees right at the beginning,

supporting or bringing in critical military aid. really pushing the envelope on the military aid that they're committing kind of running ahead of a lot of allies and they're doing are they there were new military pledges this time around. and the 1st, mig 29 fighter jets just arrived in ukraine. zelinski today even talked about poland, forming a coalition to supply more warplanes the how much pressure does that put on keys other allies to step up aid? i think it definitely puts a lot of pressure and it's a strategy that has worked in the past, especially with regard to the main battle tanks brought up the the leopard tanks earlier. so i think this issue is, is maybe a little bit different because u. s. and our other allies have indicated that they're not really considering wider just at this time, but i think it's, it's a very important signal on,

on behalf of poland to keep the momentum going. yet they are taking the lead. they used to say, you know, will, will be the 1st, but we don't want to be the only ones. are we now seeing them take a different approach? seeing that, you know, neither the you esther me, franz or the u. k. have made any moves when it comes to fighter jets. yeah, i mean i think they're just committing what they have. as i said before, i think they really see this as an existential struggle and realize that ukraine needs all the help that it can get. and i think in some ways, these capabilities are, of course not the most modern. and so from that perspective it's, it's not maybe a huge loss for poland. but it's, it's setting a signal in the direction maybe, maybe leading to more support with fighter jets or other capabilities and keeping them going. how is this viewed by nato and ukraine's other allies?

i think overall, colin's commitments have been received. well, i think there's a high appreciation for the fact that poland is willing to do so much. and i think also and an acknowledgement and retrospect that poland and other allies on the eastern flank, i've been really right for a long time, long before the invasion of february 24th warning about the russian threat. and so i think there's an appreciation of that, but on the other hand, i think there's a certain certain hesitancy about the way they're approaching the issue, the way they're just running forward without consulting with allies. i'm kind of cutting through read tapes and ways that other allies maybe can. so i think there is a certain frustration but also an appreciation of what they're doing. so the arts, lots of appreciation from us to thank you so much. thank you for your time. ah,

i was president sighing when has met with you as how speaker kevin mccarthy. the 1st meeting of this kind in the united states for decades mccarthy's position as a house speaker makes him number 3 in the u. s. political hierarchy and he's the most senior american figure to meet a taiwanese leader on us soil since $979.00. the trip comes despite warnings from china speaking. after the talks, the 2 leaders stressed their strong ties and friendship. i believe our bond is stronger now than at any time or point in my life. the friendship between the people of taiwan and america as a matter of profound importance to the free world. and it is critical to maintain the comic freedom piece and regional stability. we will honor our obligations and reiterate our commitment to our shared values behind which all americans are united. they present an unwavering support.

reassure the people of taiwan that we are not isolated as we are not the piece that we have maintained. and the democracy which have worked hard to build up facing, i'm president, challenges we once again, my of sounds in the world when democracy is under andy, urgency of keeping the beacon of freedom shining, cannot be understated brian heart as a fellow at the china power project. at the center for strategic and international studies and joined me now from washington. welcome to the day. hugely symbolic visit there, but it is being branded as a stop over of sorts on her way back from central america. they're meeting in california, not in washington. are they treading carefully here to not anchor china?

yes, so thanks to the unofficial nature of us. taiwan relation be visits by taiwan. leaders are actually called transits. so they're not official. the better done on a government to government basis. and they've happened in various formats over the last several decades. and this is, you know, depending on how you count about the 30th time this has happened in the last 3 decades. but i think one of the key things here is to the extent to which this is, you know, advertised and how high profile this is. i think under sanguine her transits, united states has been a bit more high profile than some of her predecessors. they've been a bit longer and they've included some be meeting with with us members of congress . this is the most high profile meeting she's had during transit with speaker mccarthy. and so this is, this is a little bit different from some of the in the, her past trans. yeah, mccarthy says that the bond between the u. s. and taiwan is greater now than ever

before in his lifetime. how is that going to go down in beijing? yeah, i think us taiwan release relations have really seen a considerable strengthening in recent years, mainly in response to pressure from, from beijing on taiwan and u. s. desire to kind of strengthen that relationship to, to deter china. i think a key here is the extent to which, you know, washington wants to continue to strengthen this relationship with, with present sy, there's clearly willingness on her part. but i think, i think another question is exactly how beijing responds. and i think that we're kind of waiting to see when, when pick up closely traveled to, to taiwan, back in august 2020 to china. responded with really unprecedented military exercises around the island of taiwan and put your significant pressure on the island. so i think we're all kind of waiting to see exactly how china will respond

. will it respond on the same kind of scale or will it try to ramp up the pressure or will it feel pressure to perhaps respond more softly to last time? i think there's a lot of dynamics that way here. we only have about a minute left, but i don't want to let you go without asking you. how much influence does the us really have on what china does with taiwan? i think, you know, the united states is constantly trying to, to engage with china, to, to deter china from putting pressure on taiwan. i think the by demonstration has been trying to put a bit of guard rails or a floor on the relationship of china, especially when it comes to taiwan and try to avoid potential escalation in taiwan strait. but a lot of this really is up to she jumping and paging in terms of how much they really want to escalate this here. and i think again, this will be a key test for shipping. i think this will be how he responds to the time transit and, and to her meeting with mccarthy will really i think play

a big role in the next couple of weeks and months in terms of where us china relations go from here. bryan hard at the center for strategic and international studies. pleasure speaking to you. thank you for your time. thanks for having and that is our time, but make sure to stay informed. stay engaged and stay in touch. follow our team on twitter and see that we news and myself at nicole underscore fully for now from all of us here on the day. thank you so much for spending part of your day with ah, with

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