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outside its borders. with distance comes clarity. >> so with that in mind, here is salvadoran president niyi bucheli on twitter today, quote, think what you want about former president trump and the reasons he's being indicted, bucheli wrote . >> but just imagine if this happened in any other country where a government arrested the main opposition candidate, the united states's ability to use democracy as foreign policy is gone. thousands of miles from new york city, in the heart of central america, it is very obvious what just happened at that manhattan courthouse. it's obvious to many democrats to trump was criminally charged because he is planning to challenge joe biden in the upcoming presidential election. it's really that simple. if donald trump had retired in 2020, would he have been arraigned today? of course not. top democrats know that some effectively admitted the liberal blog politico this morning ran a piece describing what it called president joe biden's most senior advisers

predicting that trump will be the republican nominee. and because he has now been charged with crimes, he will lose the general election thanks to this criminal case. the biden white house believes that swing voters, the critical voters in a presidential election are, quote, now permanently out of trump's reach. and just to make certain that swing voters never fall within trump's reach, donald trump is scheduled to be back in court in new york with the accompanying media circus just weeks before the first republican primary. >> this is the boldest election interference ever attempted in this country's history. and if you doubt that, if you think it's maybe on the level, then we suggest you look carefully at the indictment that was unveiled today. donald trump, as you probably heard, has been charged with thirty four separate crimes. those crimes turn out on close examination to be the same crime repeated thirty four times. and that crime is , quote,

falsifying business records in the first degree. so the manhattan d.a. alleges that donald trump sent his own money to various people for various entirely legal reasons. but didn't account for it correctly. in his office records. >> that's what he's accused of. and even if what alvin bragg has said trump did, he actually did do. trump could not be charged with that because the statute of limitations has expired. so the question is , how did alvin bragg drag donald trump into court today? well, he did it by claiming that trump falsified business records as a means of violating some other much more serious law. that's what he's saying. here is alvin bragg. >> today, under new york state, law is a felony to falsify business records with intent to defraud and intent to conceal another crime. that is exactly what this case is about. thirty four 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 to defendant repeatedly made false statements on your business records. he also caused others to make false statements. >> so here's what brad just said . in case you weren't paying attention to the lecture, donald trump has committed a crime not by changing business records, but by changing business records in order to conceal another, more serious crime or to defraud somebody. so let's take this in order. what is the more serious crime? what we have no idea, because bragg hasn't told us no such more serious crime is listed in the indictment. and critically in this really

the point, donald trump has not been charged with another more serious crime. >> so what we have as of tonight is an indictment that does not allege specific violations of the law lets of course, unconstitutional. >> but it's also farcical. >> what about the fraud claim you just heard brag make on television? well, brad claims that trump sent money to stormy daniels in order to influence the outcome of the twenty sixteen election . and in so doing, he tried to , quote, defraud voters. >> well, that turns out to be an actual crime. it's on the books. bragg is claiming that donald trump committed a campaign finance violation, which is a federal crime, by the way. the problem is he did not commit a campaign finance violation. nobody is claiming that he did in this question. so as a legal matter, the case brought today the thirty four felonies make no sense at all. >> it's ridiculous. but as a political tactic,

which is precisely what it is , it is likely to be effective. and that's why the media so fervently supports it. watch a kind of an alliance between different groups that have a history of being dispossessed and discriminated against, whether they are or black americans or lgbt that might come together to push back against the white christian nationalist assault on american democracy. for you don't know what part this man might play in the future of our democracy. campaign of disinformation that's continuously undermining our democracy. >> one day people will look back and see how we've handled this, this issue of trump and how it would affect our democracy. really could be a major, major event. could be a big turning point. one or the other. >> the federal prosecutors have said this is a crime that imperils our democracy. >> so it imperils our democracy. and because we care deeply

about democracy, we're going to prevent the leading candidate in the other party from running for president , not let voters vote for him. notice, there was not one word about any crime here, meaning a violation of statute. so what is this really about? well, you may have heard msnbc guest peter beinart describe today's circus in manhattan as part of a larger offensive by a coalition of the aggrieved. and we're quoting to push back against the white christian nationalist assault on american democracy. >> now you're waiting to hear the real motive here. >> wait no longer. there it is . let that sink in. does that sound like justice to you or does that sound like tribal justice? lots, of course, exactly what it is now. >> we're waiting3 4 f1 there ia legal process underway. of course, we'd like to get the latest on . elina habba is an attorney who represents donald trump and she joins us and have a thank you so much for coming on . so unless misreading this, the actual crime is not listed

in the indictment, how can that be ? it's unreal. honestly, tucker, let's talk about what we can see in the indictment, which is the years and the dates. and i'm no, no, no. crazy, brilliant human being, but i'm pretty sure i know how to read a calendar. so we have dates going in february. twenty , seventeen for a few months there where is president trump in february? >> 2017 in the oval office. okay, so what they're saying is there were checks written to his former lawyer while he was in the oval office. that's in washington, d.c. so just on its face, what we do know from this, what he failed to put in was any factual basis. of course, as you pointed out. >> but what we do know, tucker, is that he was sitting in the oval office. now, explain to me how that's campaign finance interference, how that affected the election when everyone knew about stormi in 2016. it makes no sense on its face, which is probably why it's

intentionally vague. >> well, sure. i mean, do companies commit federal crimes when they have their employees signed nondisclosure agreements? >> and so every single one does then every single day? probably not. look, if trump had committed a crime and they were alleging it, i would not defend him. if he was caught bribing someone or hurting someone or stealing money. >> but this is doesn't even approach the appearance of a crime, which is the scariest part. this is just election or ference. >> am i missing something? no, you're not missing anything . and by the way, in order to have an effective nda, you should probably have some consideration, which is called money. right. so for lawyers, we do this all the time. we do this all the time. and when you have somebody extorting you, which mark pomerance said in his book, he believed this to be, and i recommend that you all take a close look at that. he lays this out. we had michael cohen, who was a convicted felon and liar who was afraid of what was going to happen to his wife.

we have mark pomerance admitting that they couldn't bring charges. neither could the fec. who regulates this? alvin braxton today and said he was bringing a state federal crime that doesn't exist. it doesn't exist. >> it's a federal crime, not a state crime. it's crazy to hear it on nbc news today, msnbc, this hush money, really, how many women alleging sexual harassment and assault as nbc news paid off this year? i mean, spare me, please. i used to work there. >> it's great to see you tonight. thank you so much. thank you. >> so authorities all but shut down new york city for trump's arraignment today. hundreds of police officers showed up. they closed fdr drive millions of dollars on security because of all the threats and protests . >> this was the scene outside the courthouse today. with the go .

why are you trying to instigate violence right now? because i'm black and i like violence. yeah, i'm an animal, so i'm an animal. i'm a black animal. yeah, all white people. yeah, baby . bill hemmer is one of the few news anchors we trust in this country. and he's our friend. he hosts america's newsroom on this channel. >> you were in new york today, bill . what did you see that? tucker, good evening. manhattan was largely a mess today. big parts of the city shut down, as you mentioned, that prompted this text, followed by a tweet from eric trump. he writes this, alvin bragg shut down the entire city, called up thirty eight thousand nypd officers, closed down the fdr drive and is spending an estimated two and a million dollars of city funds for a one hundred and thirty thousand nda. i never thought i would see this political corruption in

our country. now, we cannot confirm that. two hundred million dollar numbers seems high, but for comparison sake, we know the city spent five hundred thousand dollars a day for security when trump was living at trump tower before he was sworn in six years ago. now, if we do go to a trial, new york could see a huge bill . consider since last thursday, the nypd was told no days off, everyone works. even the governor said the national guard is prepared to keep the peace if needed. and that was not necessary today. >> so the judge ordered trump to be back in new york on monday, the 4th of december. and there's no telling how the bill will go if the trial goes forward, which brings us to the case itself. in speaking with one of trump's attorneys tonight, james truste tells me they were happily surprised, his words, with the contents of the indictment. he says it's not a terrible thing to have the credibility of michael cohen as a star witness. they've got a big problem

with the leaks of the indictment before it went public. which is a felony prison up to five years if convicted . trustee says his team wants to get this case before a judge soon and push for a dismissal. in his words, it could be thrown out in a new york minute. >> we shall see. tucker, what a circus. bill hemmer, thanks for that update tonight. thanks so much. and keep in mind, president trump will be ordered back to new york in december, right before the republican primary is just in case you were hoping to terrify swing voters into voting for an eighty two year old candidate. >> well, lots of links as you sort of been coming out of this grand jury. that's a felony. the leaks appear to be coming from alvin bragg's office. you'd think someone might investigate this as long as we're bringing people up on thirty for bookkeeping related charges. >> what exactly are the legal merits of the case against donald trump? well, alan dershowitz taught for many years at harvard, probably the country's most famous legal scholar, author of

the book get trump. >> he joins us tonight. professor, thank you for coming on . >> so just as as a legal matter, as a long time lifelong law professor, how would you assess these charges? you know, i was part of me was hoping there'd be a smoking gun. it would help the american system. it would help. but there's nothing here. here's the theory. breaks theory broken down is this when donald trump paid one hundred and thirty thousand to make sure that stormy daniels didn't embarrass him in front of his wife, his children, his business associates when he paid one hundred thirty thousand dollars, he knew he had to immediately list one hundred and thirty thousand dollars and describe the reason he paid as hush money to a former porn star in order to stop from testifying about his adulterous affair. with anybody in the history of the world. ever pay hush money? if they knew they had to honestly disclose. i mean, hush money goes back to alexander hamilton.

it's one of the oldest phenomenon in american history. i challenge brag, he said he looked the american public in the eye and he said , i have prosecuted cases like this. it's our bread and butter, including cases. the name one case where anybody is ever prosecuted, somebody for not honestly disclosing the fact that he paid hush money to cover up a matter. it's never happened. it would never have happened if this was not donald trump. this is part of get trump. and this comes from a liberal democrat who maintains his right as a constitutional manner to road get to vote against donald trump for the third time. and but i want make sure that the american public decides the next election and not to brag, a democrat who promised he promised his potential jurors, vote for me and i will make sure i get trump. that isn't justice.

>> and i agree with you on the charges. i mean, if braggart alleged a drug related murder spree or something like, okay, you know, we should look at this, but this is a this is an insult, i think, to the system. i appreciate coming on . thank you. thank you. >> so it was, of course, a spectacle today in new york . that was the entire point of it to terrify voters in a general election from voting for trump. a judge and a photographer into the courtroom, in addition to sketch artist to media outlets, pictures of donald trump in court, the air these all afternoon. but these same media outlets insisted they were actually very somber, approaching this whole situation with the respect it was due. >> my thought is it's a very sad day for america. if you don't see this is a sad day for america. >> it's just so serious and solemn. there is a sadness, i think, that we got to this point in america. >> well, it is a sad day for america. it is a serious night and a somber moment for our country. >> there should be a somber moment. right. i have a lot of friends

on the on the left side of the spectrum who are doing a happy dance right now. and i don't think that's appropriate. know, it's just not a it's just not appropriate. make is very sad, as if she had authentic feelings of any kind. steve krakauer covers television. he's the author of the book uncovered. he joins us tonight. i mean, why not? >> the falseness, i think comes right through on the tube. like there's one thing viewers can perceive immediately. >> it's whether the person is real and to say a really sad about a day you've been praying for at your altar to bail in your living room or whatever . like, that's unbelievable, right? no, they can barely contain the glee that they have to salivating about the . and of course, they all they wanted was the mug shot. they couldn't even get the mug shot. they let the photographer into the courtroom, which is pretty rare because they couldn't even get the mug shot that they've been craving for months or years going back . look, this is all a symptom of the trump addiction that goes back really eight years. they've been craving this moment. they had this very deep, sick love hate relationship

with donald trump. and this is all playing out now. i think the biggest tell is you look in new york , the streets of new york , when there's more media reporters and photographers than protesters, you know, it's all a sham. and all the show and all this circus and they can't even pretend. no one believes that. they actually think that this is some serious thing, as you lay out in the open, if they actually explain to the audience what this is , then the audience would understand that the entire coverage, the whole thing that they've built is all a house of cards. so they have to pretend and it's about democracy and racism when when we actually really know what it's all about, which is their deep love and hate for donald trump. >> but at a certain point, i mean, they accused him of betraying his country and committing treason. a death penalty offense and all that. and it's really come down to his count and put the wrong heading on on a column. i mean, that's really what it is now. >> well, the media. yeah, they can't they can't say that. but they also know i think it's very clear that they know this is not going to get you to jump in jail or even dropping out of the gop race. and they don't want that.

they of course, they want him running. as you've mentioned, the politico story, this is exactly what they want. they want him kind of beat up a little bit. but then actually the gop nominee and if he was really this threat to america as they proclaim that he is , why would you want this person being the one of two people to be the next president ? and this is only going to help him as as it did in 2016. they've learned nothing from what they did, only seven years ago. >> well, and if he believed in democracy, you would let voters make that choice, because that's what a democracy is , a system which the voters choose, not the tv pundits and george soros. steve cracka, great to you. thank you. thanks, tucker. so as we told you at the top, alvin bragg, the manhattan d.a., has charged the republican frontrunner with an indictment that does not even specify a crime. >> so what do you hate, trump? it doesn't really matter how you feel about trump. if you care about the system that we've lived under for these hundreds of years and we're justly proud of, maybe you should say something about this. has anybody who didn't vote for trump other than dershowitz you

just saw said a word about it? well, tulsi, gabbard ran for president as a democrat, served in the congress, of course, from hawaii. she joins us tonight. congressman, thank you so much for coming on . so, i mean, tucker, at what point does it become not about one guy, one candidate, and about the preservation of a justice system that all of us want to live under, the point that that needs to happen is right now, this is a really sad day for our country. the bottom line is we have a democrat establishment that is so blinded by their hatred of donald trump and their love for power that they just they don't care about the country. they don't care about how their weaponizes portion of our law enforcement against their political opponent is undermining the very foundation of our democracy, our rule of law. they don't care about the serious precedent this is setting that fundamentally undermines that foundation potentially for for a very long time. to come. now, i know. i know i know some democrats who in their heart know that

what's happening is wrong. i know there's probably a lot of democrats, independents are watching your show right now who feel the same way with are so afraid to speak up. they're so afraid to be targeted, called traitors cast out. but the important thing for us all those of us who love this country and value democracy and understand the importance of preserving the rule of law in this country, now is the time for courage to take a stand to defend that which we hold dear , to defend this country and to defend our democracy and have the courage to stand up not only for us today, but recognize that there are long lasting consequences if we do nothing and will be lost. yeah, well, if you and donald trump had just signed on to the neocon foreign policy, you'd both still be in office. >> oh, i think. tulsi gabbard, appreciate your perspective as always. thank you, tucker. >> so as you can see, the republican frontrunner is filing in. you just saw his son eric a second ago. we're going to go to charlie, to the washington times really quick for an overview of what's going on today.

charlie, thanks for coming on . what are your thoughts as we await the former president ? >> well, i've got to tell you, tucker, it's kind of interesting. you obviously it is a sad day to see that spectacle, the circus in manhattan where every single institution has failed. you have a rogue runaway prosecutor who is putting politics before for the law. the only person involved in any of this who has respected the law and respected the country is donald trump. he didn't have to go to new york today. in fact, he got a clear pass from the governor of florida that the governor of florida wouldn't wouldn't allow him to be arrested and hauled to new york. he went because he has respect for the system and what is the thanks he gets for that? he goes in there and the judge tells him doesn't put a gag order on him in the middle of an election, but tells him, you watch what you say, i'm watching. this is this is the fire alarm that voters pulled in 2016.

this is our country that is broken. and this is what donald trump, his campaign on his his entire political system. >> it's such a smart point, charlie. >> thanks so much. we're going to go now to donald trump from mar-a-lago in palm beach. >> he's being introduced, just as you can see. there he is . we're going to take this live because we think it's meaningful. we think this is a moment that is significant in our history. and frankly, we think it's really interesting. so we're going to bow out and turn it over to donald trump for president . once again, running for president today. no doubt this guy from the lakes in minnesota to the

hills of tennessee across the plains, some seeing detroit down through houston to l.a., where this prize in every american heart and it's time we stand proud to be an american, where at least i know i'm free and forget the man who died, who gave me and i next to you and defend herself a day down. i love this land. god bless america.

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we have to save our country. god bless you all. god bless you all. and 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. >> from the beginning, the democrats spied on my campaign. >> remember that? >> they attacked me with an onslaught of fraudulent investigations. russia, russia, russia, ukraine, ukraine, ukraine, impeachment, folks. no one . impeachment hawks, no to the illegal and unconstitutional raid on mar-a-lago right here are lying to the fisa courts.

the fbi and doj relentlessly pursuing republicans. the unconstitutional changes to election laws by not getting approvals from state legislatures, the millions of votes illegally stuffed into ballot boxes and all caught on government cameras. and just recently, the fbi and doj in collusion with twitter and facebook in order not to say anything bad about the hunter biden laptop from , which exposes the biden family as criminals and which, according to the pollsters, would have made a seventeen point difference in the election result. and we needed a lot less than that, like about sixteen point nine . >> it would have been in our favor, not in my favor, our favor, because our country is going to . and we remember the fifty

one intelligence agents who said hunter biden's laptop was russian disinformation. it didn't exist. it was russian disinformation. remember that? and that was all confirmed strongly by the fbi when they all knew that it wasn't russian disinformation and so much more . our elections were like those of a third world country and now this massive election interference at a scale never seen before. our country, beginning with the radical left, george us back prosecutor alvin bragg of new york , who campaigned on the fact that he would get president trump. >> i going to get him. i'm going to get him. this is a guy campaign. you want to get president trump at any cost. >> and this before he knew anything about me, didn't show a thing about me.

>> he was campaigning, as it turns out, virtually everybody that has looked at this case, including rhinos, and even democrats, say there is no crime and that it should never have been brought, never happened. everybody, even people that aren't big fans have said if they said this is not the right thing to do, it's an insult to our country. the world is already laughing at us for so many other reasons. like our open borders, our incompetent withdrawal from afghanistan, where we left behind american citizens. eighty five billion dollars worth of the best military equipment in the world lost 13 magnificent young lives and far too many to mention that are so badly hurt with the loss of arms and legs and facial obliteration. the most embarrassing time in

our country's history. >> in my opinion, then i give up on energy independence and even energy dominant. we're going to be dominant within six months more than any other nation. times two , we had this all just three years go our raging crime statistics. if you look in democrat run cities numbers, the likes of which we have never seen before, the open threats by various countries of the use of nuclear weapons, something never mentioned or discussed by outside nations during the trump administration in which could very well lead under the biden administration's leadership to an all out nuclear world war three can happen. >> we're not very far away from it. believe it or not, an economy that has been crippled by the

biggest inflation we have seen in more than 60 years. and a military that i used to defeat isis in four weeks. they said it would take four years, four weeks to kill al-baghdadi and salomone that is now gone, woke at the top levels by trying to indoctrinate everyone down to the lowest ranking patriot . >> but now they have really stepped up their efforts by indicting the forty fifth president of the united states who received seventy five million votes, which is more than any sitting president in the history of our country. >> and in the wings, they've got a local racist democrat district attorney in atlanta who is doing everything in her power to indict me over an

absolutely perfect phone call. >> even more perfect that the one i made with the president of ukraine. remember, a kid kept saying, that's a perfect call. >> this one was more perfect. nobody said , sir, you shouldn't say that. >> many people on the phone or hung up in disgust because of something inappropriately said , because nothing was said wrong. in fact, at the end of the call, we agreed to continue our conversation about election fraud and election fraud. specific in georgia at a later time. many people on the phone, including lots of lawyers, nobody found anything wrong with that. perfect call until a book promotion tour. many months later. all of a sudden, they say, you know, i remember making a call . let's look at that. this fake case was brought only to interfere with the upcoming 2024 election, and it should be dropped immediately. >> then you have a radical left

lunatic known as a bomb thrower who is harassing hundreds of my people day after day over the boxes hoax. you know, the boxes hoax as we call. just so everyone knows, i come under what's known as the presidential records act, which was designed and approved by congress long ago. >> just for this reason. under the act, i'm supposed to negotiate with nra, the national archives and records administration, which as of this date is a radical left troublemaking organization that red flags the constitution of the united states and the bill of rights as dangerous and triggering. can you imagine this is what we have to deal with , but there is no criminality under the president records act.

that is not what it's all about. we were negotiating in very good faith, proper way in order to return some or all of the documents that i openly and in very plain sight brought with me to mar-a-lago from our beautiful white house, just as virtually every other president has done in the past. >> when fbi and doj officials with narrow way here, i told my lawyer to show them the very secure storage room in which they were locked, the fbi cell request in writing was, could you please put another lock on the door? we immediately complied a lot different than the biden situation, isn't it? >> the next thing i know, we were raided by many gun toting fbi agents who took

whatever they wanted, including my passports and medical records. >> everybody was in shock. >> nobody had ever heard of such a raid before. we can't even believe who would think that that could happen today? >> i immediately thought of the fourth amendment that protects against unreasonable search and seizure. >> but they did it anyway because our justice system has become lawless. >> they're using it now in addition to everything else to win elections. >> apparently, they're not looking at me through the view of the non-criminal presidential records act. >> they came up with a new one. this is a new one. and they're looking at me through the espionage act. think of that. how does that sound of 1917 where the penalty is death, even though that has absolutely nothing to do with openly

taking boxes of documents and mostly clothing and other things in my home, which president obama has done, the bushes have jimmy carter's done. ronald reagan has done. everybody's done tracked. hillary clinton got rid of thirty three thousand emails and that was okay. but nobody's done it like joe biden, this lunatic special prosecutor named jack smith. >> i wonder what it was prior to a change who others of his ilk say he's even worse than they are is only look at it. trump get joe biden took massive amounts, more documents ,even removed many boxes to chinatown. >> we believe that she's got ten million dollars from china. where did that come from? i guess they are banking on hunter's expertise and other stored and unsecured offices in pennsylvania and strewn all

over his garage floor where his now very famous corvette is also stored all over the floor. including classified documents. >> but that's okay. perhaps most importantly, he has one thousand eight hundred and fifty boxes in delaware, which is refusing to give up. >> but isn't that real obstruction? that's obstruction. >> as president, i have the right to declassify documents and the process is automatic. >> if i take them with me, it's automatic declassify. >> biden was vice president . he had absolutely no right to declassify as vice president . >> he doesn't come under the non-criminal presidential records act. he comes under the very criminal federal records act, unfortunately for him. but it's not going to matter because they don't follow the law, which has very severe

penalties. he had classified documents that he took while he was a senator, which is absolutely inexcusable. and other senators, including democrats, are outraged. >> but he's not being harassed and hounded like the people who work for me are. >> in fact, they seem to have forgotten about his documents entirely. so many thousands and thousands. >> it's okay with him. they like to say that i'm obstructing, which i'm not ,because i was working with ngara very nicely until the raid on my home. >> but biden is obstructing by making it impossible to get the eighteen hundred and fifty boxes to explain why many documents were located in china. i can't explain. >> why were they not? i don't know. lastly, i'm under investigation this time. a civil investigation by another racist in reverse who also campaigned on i

will get trump. >> i will get him. >> this was our campaign. never ran for office. i will get him. >> her name is letitia james . >> and she proclaimed while campaigning, quote, i look forward to going into the office of the attorney general every single day, suing him and then going home before she know me. >> she announced what is fueling my soul right now is trump and that she had her eyes on trump tower. those eyes are focused. trump tower didn't know the young lady. >> she even assured her supporters in an election promised, we're going to definitely sue him. we're going to be a real pain in the . >> he's going to know my name personally. >> yeah, and then she claimed

that i was an illegitimate president . >> thank i think with all with all we did with all we did on energy, with all we did on the military, your taxes, biggest tax cuts in history, biggest regulation cuts in history. right. to try people able to get drugs now that aren't approved. hopefully you don't have that problem. letitia james , vowed to use every area of the law to , quote, investigate president trump and his business transactions. those transactions are going to be investigated, she said , and that of her family and his family, because we're going after his family and we're going after them hard. >> this is all before entering office and all before knowing anything at all about me. >> but you're was going to get me this is why, along

with unrelenting crime, so many people and companies are leaving new york . >> she said that i falsified my financial statements, but in fact, we're proving and will prove that my financial statements were substantially more than we submitted, not less, and in all cases have a strong disclaimer clause in there which tells the institution that may look at that if they want to , not to rely on the statement. but they've got a problem with their case because no. one , i'm very unbelieve. they can't believe it. all the stuff they read and gave and have very little debt relative to the value of assets. >> and importantly, not one bank has lost even one dollar. she was investigating me to save banks. they have very good lawyers, but they didn't lose a dollar with during this period of

time. >> in fact, the banks we're talking about made almost 200 million dollars off donald trump. >> and they like me very much. we never missed a payment, never got a default. notice, had a great relationship with all of them. i need banks. we have a lot of cash . i built a great business with my family, built a fantastic business. i have a son here, has done a great job, and i have another son here, has done a great job petition. and ivanka and baron will be great someday. >> he's tall, he's tall, and he's smart.

>> but i have a great family and they've done a fantastic job and we appreciate it very much. they've gone through . so she's suing me over banks that weren't defrauding when she should be focused on violent crime. >> that's driving people out of the state. >> this is a persecution, not an investigation. >> she's put our family through . >> it's cost hundreds of millions of dollars to defend. but our heads are held very, very high. they want to settle the case, but i want no part of that. so here we are now. it's where we were today. >> in a city that was so great just four or five years ago. >> but now we're there. >> spend time there today, as you possibly read with a local failed district

attorney charging a former president of the united states for the first time in history on a basis that every single pundit and legal analyst said there is no case, there's no case. >> they kept saying there's no case virtually everyone. >> but it's far worse than that because he knew there was no case. >> that's why last week he delayed for a month and then immediately took that back . and threw this ridiculous indictment together. came out today. everybody said this is not really an indictment. there's nothing here. my lawyers came to me and they said there's nothing here. they're not even saying what you did. >> the criminal is the district attorney because he illegally leaked massive amounts of grand jury information for which he should be prosecuted or at

a minimum, he should resign. >> and alvin bragg's wife confirmed a report that claimed her husband has trump nailed on felonies. >> she has since locked down her twitter account. >> his chief prosecutor, who represented the democrats and crooked hillary clinton and a firm run by chuck schumer's brother robert . he quit the firm in order to go to work in the d.a. office in order to get trump. can you imagine that hillary clinton's lawyer, democrat lawyer, democrat firm, ultimately he quit as prosecutor because bragg didn't think he had a case. i think of that same guy that brought this ridiculous thing today. >> yet during his investigation, this prosecutor named mark pomerance wrote and published a book saying all sorts of privilege things and has been very strongly really reprimanded. he was reprimanded so strongly.

i've never seen anything like it. i've probably the end of it. but what he did was probably very illegal. >> but he was very, very strongly reprimanded. even district attorney bragge was furious with him. >> they were having a tremendous fight in the office because of it. >> but hope is never lost because various prosecutors and the d.a., his office also quit because they thought president trump was being treated very unfairly. >> how about that in that great. oh, i love them. i'd like to meet them. i'd like to meet them. the d.a.'s office even had a web page. >> meet the team of executives who have done this to president trump. that is a title and they're nice. they immediately had to take it down. >> meanwhile, overall crime in new york was up 30% last year, much more than that a year before with felony assaults,

robberies and burglaries. all up by massive, massive numbers. not the same place that i know, not the same place that you and this is where we are right now. >> i have a trump hating judge with a trump hating wife and family whose daughter worked for kamala harris and now receives money from the biden harris campaign. and a lot of it. >> we recently had another trial and the same judge told the fine man who worked for me for many, many years that if you admit your guilt, you will be in jail for 90 days. but if you don't, if we go through a trial and you're found guilty, you're going away for ten years and maybe longer ,which for a seventy five year old man with a great family, really means life. >> what the prosecutors and judge did to that man,

i will never forget is it's right out of the old soviet union. >> that's where we are. they said you say anything about trump, meaning that's bad and you won't even have to serve the 90 days you'll walk free and they say that to many of my employees, we have this jack smith lunatic threatening people every single day through his representatives . they're threatening jail terms . >> but talk about trump and you'll go free. this is where we are as a nation. who would have thought they can't beat us at the ballot box? so they try and beat us through the law. >> that's the country in which we live. >> however, right now, the usa is a mess. our economy is crashing. inflation is out of control. >> russia has joined with china . >> can you believe that saudi arabia has joined with iran,

china, russia, iran, and north korea have formed together, is a menacing and destructive coalition. would have never happened if your president would never have happened, nor would russia attack in ukraine have happened. all of those lives would be saved. all of those beautiful cities would be standing. >> our currency is crashing and will soon no longer be the world standard. which will be our greatest defeat, frankly, in two hundred years. there will be no defeat like that that will take us away from being even a great power. >> if you took the five worst presidents in the history of the united states , and added them up, they would not have done near the destruction to our country. as joe biden and the biden administration have done.

incredibly, we are now a failing nation. >> we are a nation in decline. and now these radical left lunatics want to interfere with our elections by using law enforcement. >> we can't let that happen. with all of this being said , and with a very dark cloud over our beloved country, i have no doubt, nevertheless, that we will make america great again. >> thank you very. and god bless you and god bless america. thank you very much, everybody. thank you.

donald trump, former president , now the front runner for the republican nomination in 2020 four from his home and club in palm beach, florida, mar-a-lago on the day he became the first ever former american president to be indicted. now arraigned, charges that seem not only weak, but in fact, vaporous. i may not actually exist, but trump seeming pretty much unrattled. and in fact, if you haven't checked in with him and his public appearances over the last two years, you may have noticed he seemed a lot looser, really, than he did when last we saw him in january of 2020 one , in case you haven't been following it. so but clearly this sets the stage for a lot of political intensity. trump didn't beat around the bush at all. >> he called the independent counsel looking into

the document case appointed by the attorney general of the united states , merrick garland, an open partisan. he called the that independent counsel a lunatic. about five times and alluded to the legal threats people around him have been getting, which is pretty common in these things. almost nobody ever talks about it, but trump just did, as you heard. so he spoke for about maybe twenty five minutes. will cain is co-host of fox and friends weekend. he was watching carefully and joins us with what he believes the big takeaways were. >> will cain, thanks a lot for coming on . so what would you take from that? >> i appreciate you asking me, tucker. what the big takeaway was, because i think donald trump came out loose, aggressive and clear eyed about the big take away. he quickly broaden the scope beyond the prosecution there in new york , tucker. he said , that's right. and the system has responded to donald trump like a foreign a foreign substance, a foreign body. and he is to the system is flooded with antibodies to destroy trump. and he quickly pivoted to talking about that broader

effort, the witch hunt to destroy trump. >> and if you think about tucker, the doj, the fbi, state ags, local prosecutors, the media, the military industrial complex, much of his own political party have all put forth a very well-funded at this point, eight to nine year investigation, an effort to destroy trump. and what have they come up with at the end of the day? tucker, a misdemeanor bookkeeping charge. >> that's it. you know, people say in new york today, they say in new york , you if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere . a lot of people don't know. there's a second stanza of that saying it's but you better have impeccable bookkeeping once you make it. you know, we cannot promise we can't promise you're going to get to work without being stabbed. but if you do make it without being shoved in front of the subway, once you get there, you better have perfect record keeping. we're going to be on that like white on rice and that is what they've been able to come up

with so far . in this witch hunt, which has spanned almost a decade, every institution of the federal government, most of the private sector, as well in terms of corporate media and corporate america and what they've managed to conjure up so far is misdemeanor bookkeeping. >> tucker. i agree with that assessment. >> i , i feel guilty ever watching a politician speak and then agreeing with it because it makes you feel like a shill, like everybody else on television. but in this case, trump is absolutely right. >> this has nothing to do with his purported crimes which are fake. it has to do with his views, which are terrifying to the people who run our government in a very undemocratic way, i would say. and he's absolutely right. and so are you. and you. coming up. try we'll . thank you, tucker. i was going to say you have to i appreciate your unwillingness in your in your reticence to ever echo a politician's words. and i share that sentiment, tucker. but we have to and i know you do look beyond this, beyond

the lens of orangeman that we have to care about law and due process. >> and anyone that does can quickly see that what we have here, abuse of a political system to manipulate an election. and if you doubt that, if you doubted it, just beyond seeing the weakness of the case, i give you that the prosecution asked for their trial date to be january twenty twenty four . right when primaries start. yes. this is a political persecution . >> it's not about the politicians that are old, but some of us have kids and they're going to have to live here in a system that we want to function. we'll thank you so much. >> thanks, tucker. harmeet dhillon is obviously a famous civil rights attorney . she's highly familiar with this case. and we have to ask, why did a judge allow cameras into the court to take pictures of trump? normally you see sketches that seemed like part of a strategy, a political strategy, not a legal one . >> army film. thank you for coming on . what did you make of that? well, i agree with you, tucker. i mean, if the democratic party

is using this prosecution, which i believe they are to influence the outcome of the next election, this photograph is going to be a prop in those campaign ads. and it all seems to be really well targeted towards that. i would even say that the judge not putting a gag order on both sides in this case is the same because by by by scolding the defendant and saying you better stay away from an imaginary line that i'm not going to draw for you. he's effectively chilling his speech while at the same time not putting any constraints whatsoever on the district attorney who could go out. and in fact, completely ignore his his his oath to do justice and prejudge that the defendant is already guilty, said that multiple times in his remarks while winking at the same time admitting that he didn't even have to articulate what the charges are. >> so this entire proceeding seems to be clearly rigged in a political manner. and somewhere along the way, tucker, americans may have not

noticed that the democratic party has basically turned into a gang of thugs. so there is no concept of due process. there is no concept of even with a straight face attempting to tie the charges to something that you can prove in front of a court of law. that could stand up on appeal. and so if there were ever any more evidence than than we already suspected, i think the way today's proceedings went really underscores the political nature of this. if i were to make a comment about the president's remarks today, i would say that what was missing from that is pointing out that this indictment is really aimed at the american people. it's aimed at president trump supporters. it's aimed at terrorizing people away from supporting a particular candidate. and it is meant to remind all of us that if they can do this to a former president , they can concoct false charges without even articulating what the charges are against any american for political reasons . and that is a form of emotional terrorism. should really be terrifying to all americans that this

is the current state of the law in new york city. >> we should say that in every public appearance going forward. >> i agree with that. and thank you so much. >> we want to end tonight on the most elevated and wisest possible note. and of course, you already know who's coming next. victor davis hanson, a senior fellow at the hoover institution, joins us for the two minutes and 10 seconds we have left. professor, welcome . >> thank you. tucker, i think that we're we're seeing war clouds gather abroad. and i think the united states economy politically, foreign policy is at the nadir. and we've lost now all credibility that we've stored up over two hundred thirty three . we have no more moral credibility to lecture people about the democratic process. and your guest have spelled it out pretty well. they have an agenda of the left that does not appeal to fifty one percent of the people. so they attack the process and they attack the candidate and what we're seeing is not the end of it. >> this tonight was the very beginning. this is going to go on through

three prosecutors for a year and a half with the intent of getting just enough empathy for donald trump. to be nominated and then seeing him gag order to hemorrhage, maybe even incarcerated, to nullify his viability in the general section. so it's the worst example of third world election tampering and they don't have a message. and so whether it's symbolically tearing up the state of the union or denying the speaker, the minority leader in the house, appointments are trying to threaten the filibuster to be ended or the electoral college pack the court. it's all process because they don't have a message and they're desperate. they're revolutionaries. we're in the middle of a revolution. we don't even know that we're in. i think donald trump said as much as he could, but i imagine that in the next week we'll see a gag order leveled against him and then the other prosecutors will be encouraged. >> this is going to go on . the psychodrama is going to go on for a year and a half, which is entirely point very quickly. >> is it not a single democrat

in washington who cares about the country enough to say what you just said ? i don't think so. >> i think some people like joe manchin have spoken out. but there's no democratic party anymore, doesn't exist. it's not even a progressive party, but it's a leftist revolutionary movement and has no popular support. but throughout history, suchhout such movements didn't really need they didn't need it. they got power in hansen. thank you so much. b we'll be back tomorrow. here's sean hannity. sean. >> all right, tucker, thank t you.his fox and welcome to hannity. we begin with this fox news alert, manhattan d.a. his far left backers are uhis alvin bragg and his far leftp eg backers, they are now upending the rule of law in our country.a they are now weaponizes justice in our country over what is oneg of the weakest cases everht brought before. a court now comingrt full reaction analysis with trump attorney joe tacopina, the great one , mark levin, bill hemmer, jonathan turley, greg jarret, eric p.