i'm here to speak on behalf of other victims who had cases pending in alan bragg's office to speak on everyone who is equally unhappy. stuart: did you change any minds yesterday? were democrats open to changing their minds about what bragg is doing? >> never cut i have imagined the blatant disrespect we would have been shown as victims, the disrespect they showed madeleine who buried her son, a united states veteran, to push their agenda. the amount of times they mentioned donald trump was insane. we were not there to talk about donald trump but us and the horrific circumstances people are living under in new york. they are there to push donald trump the anti-trump agenda and gun legislation. stuart: alan bragg is the district attorney in new york and not prosecuting felonies. he has reduced 52% of the felony cases to misdemeanors but elevates a misdemeanor on trump to a felony at the federal level. that is what you were there to talk about yesterday, didn't work for the democrats. >> it into. they kept telling us they don't have jurisdiction over this, alan bragg is violating two vic

alan bragg and judge merchan personally. >> i have a trump-heating judge with a trump 8-hating wife andragg detailed a criminal indictment of trump, accusing him of falsifying bes as part of a year's long alleged hush money scheme. trump's lawyers say they will mount an aggressive effort to have the charges dismissed. >> you are charging the president of the united states with crimes, crimes that will never be sustained in the court of law because they don't exist. >> reporter: sources say the manhattan d.a. and his prosecutors are aiming for a trial next january, and if that were to happen, that means trump could be spending time in new york, facing trial. all while campaigning in iowa and new hampshire ahead of those early nominating contest. >> norah: it's going to be a next ordinary year ahead. robert costa, thank you so much. well, another of deadly tornadoes left a path of destruction across the midwest today and the threat continues tonight. early this morning, at least five people were killed and thousands others injured when a large twister toward or through a rural community i

alan bragg, i hate to say this is a lawyer, and as a prosecutor, is a disgrace to the legal profession, and does not have the ability himself to stand before that judge and try this case himself. he's allowing two hotshot lawyers, prosecutors to do it for him. he doesn't have the capability to do it. essentially, that is about all i have to say about this disgusting situation. host: patricia in massachusetts. what do you have to say this evening? caller: i have two things to say. here is a man who was standing up for his country, who looks at his family and loves them. and the other thing about him is he's a union man, he speaks for the people, with the working hard. i'm a teacher. all those things about this manner correct. now, you can talk about the other part of him. this is a man trying to run a country. this is the man that should. host: patricia mentioning the former president family. you saw trump's children there this evening. he also, according to the hill newspaper, in the audience, kari lake, the former arizona republican gubernatorial candidate was there to support trump.

all of the information that was subpoenaed, there's alan bragg entering the courtroom there, the district attorney. >> do we think bragg will lead the prosecution here in this case? >> i don't think so. i would be surprised if he actually does the presentation. i would venture to guess it will be susan hottinger, sort of the lead prosecutor on, this or chris conway, or one of the other prosecutors, and probably not brag himself but he wants to be there to show team, to show his support for all of their work. >> he will be there afterwards. we will hear from him later on this afternoon and we will hear from donald trump in a much frankly, on a much friendlier turf. we have been showing aerial shots of the shear number of people who are outside that courtroom, donald trump is going to go back to balg and basically, i believe, get on the plane fairly quickly after this is all wrapped up to get down to that prime time speech that he plans to deliver in front of frankly a lot of people who are there to back him, and to sort of rally to his side at this moment. >> danny, have you had clients wh

on monday the house judiciary committee will hear from victims of alan bragg's policies. congressman russell pryor will be at the hearing. he will be on the show shortly. the air national guardsmen accused of leaking those pentagon documents has appeared in court. my question, why is secret information available so widely and why did a 21-year-old get top clearance? more on that next. r into parkis so people think they're open. surprise. [ laughs ] [ horn honks, muffled talking ] -can't hear you, jerry. -sorry. uh, yeah, can we get a system where when someone's bike is in the shop, then we could borrow someone else's? -no! -no! or you can get a quote with america's number-one motorcycle insurer and maybe save some money while you're at it. all in favor of that. [ horn honking ] there's a lot of buttons and knobs in here. stuart: jack teixeira, accused of espionage in the boston federal courthouse. has the white house said anything about the arrest? >> reporter: president biden has been briefed about it but he hasn't said anything about this or the other international lose

rachel: the associated press, alan bragg has won felony charges dropped against a former president, thistion involves falsifying business records stemming from an alleged has many payment in 2016 to adult actress stormy daniels. the former president denied any affair or wrongdoing and has not been shy on social media expressing his outrage of what he sees as political persecution. last night trump called himself a totally innocent man saying the indictment is an act of obstruction and election interference. he does command a lead in most early gop primary polls, the trump campaign says they have raised $4 million the day after the indictment. pete: for more let's turn to former federal prosecutor frank haynes. do you expect tuesday, the expectation that has been set is it will be a little bit of a nonevent, we won't see handcuffs or mugshots or anything in the form of fingerprinting, it will be done behind the scenes. will this come and go when it comes to the general public watching without much in the way of coverage or fanfare? >> reporter: depends what local authorities will allow th

trump's lawyer said manhattan district attorney alan bragg is stretching the law and for political purposesguing the charges are parent list because the payment is personal and never filed with the irs or sec. >> is a something made irrespective of the campaign. there was no is it a business record ... record his own personal files. but still the exact charges trump phases are unknown. so are the details about me in handcuffs, his attorney says it is possible he could have a perp walk and get a mug shot. that mug shot could affect his presidential 2024 presidential run. if you could actually why? his campaign raised $4 million a day after he became the first u.s. president to ever be fully indicted. shannon: bryan llenas reporting for some new york. joining us now jim trusty. the veteran, check welcome to "fox news sunday". mike tate shannon. quick to start here. a lot has been made about the fact this is quote unquote a political prosecution. indictment. the chances when tuesday comes there's more in this case that we know. quick is conceivable. look, think about the grand a perspective we

so this really helps t buttress what alan bragg has put into this indictment anyway that takes it out of th defenses this area that donald trump may have done this in th past as a pattern of avoidin things, but it was not necessarily to influence a election i think that that recording, air going to hear a number of, times and it is not going to b something that is music to donald trump's ears. >> suzanne, you covered th trump tax case, alle weisselberg's case what stood out to you toda about the da's charges >> i think it is interesting that they are looking at a potential state tax charge i still have a lot of question about how that is going to b handled. we know that the legal fees, they claim they were legal fee when they were really th reimbursement to stormy daniels, so we see there that we've got the books and records charge what i am sort of confused about, and it will b interesting, there was information that came out from bragging today was just very brag about what exactly thei tax crime is he does not say after he ver carefully details how michae cohen's payment was handle

that's something that alan bragg said also, if one of the crimes tha your thinking could be used as that is not something you could charge the state court anyway now, this really goes to christa's question in the last segment, where he said isn't this still a really tenuou case, isn't there a proble because this is a legal issu in this case more than a factual issue. and this is where i wa actually impressed in terms of what was charged there because there's so man different ways in which the da as laid out how he can get to felony he has suggested in his oral remarks that one way is th federal campaign laws. another way is the state campaign laws. a third way is he talked about ami is showing false statements, and this was in furtherance of the state movements. and a fourth wave was ta charges, exactly what you ha laid out, rachel, in terms o the scheme to have michael cohen commit tax fraud which, by the way, is exactl the kind of thing that was alleged in the trump organization weisselberg cas that just resulted i convictions in november. so, those give the da a lot of room so even if

one is that alan bragg is a local prosecutor.is the manhattan prosecutor and donald trump was running for a federal office so there is a mixing of state law and federal law here that is untested by the courts. that can be a problem. i'm fairly confident that these are the underlying facts that the trump campaign, the legal team, will try to get this case thrown out or at least not back to a misdemeanor on the basis of that. campaign finance charges are hard to bring. john edwards, the former vice presidential candidate and senator was brought up on charges of paying hush money to the woman he was having an affair with and had a child with. that case went before a jury also is a campaign-finance violation and the jury did buy it for the most part. he was acquitted on one of the counts and another one, the jury could not come to a decision in the justice department dropped to the case. they are not apples and apples but they do raise the potential concerns that people legitimately would have with this case. all that being said, we

one is that alan bragg is a local prosecutor.is the manhattan prosecutor and donald trump was running for a federal office so there is a mixing of state law and federal law here that is untested by the courts. that can be a problem. i'm fairly confident that these are the underlying facts that the trump campaign, the legal team, will try to get this case thrown out or at least not back to a misdemeanor on the basis of that. campaign finance charges are hard to bring. john edwards, the former vice presidential candidate and senator was brought up on charges of paying hush money to the woman he was having an affair with and had a child with. that case went before a jury also is a campaign-finance violation and the jury did buy it for the most part. he was acquitted on one of the counts and another one, the jury could not come to a decision in the justice department dropped to the case. they are not apples and apples but they do raise the potential concerns that people legitimately would have with this case. all that being said, we

republicans have been lining up to attack alan bragg, the da in manhattan for the indictment that he'sson. 0n the sunday programme, this is what he said about the problems that donald trump is now facing. you suggested recently, that if trump were to get indicted, that he should drop out of the race. do you believe that now that he's been indicted that he should drop out to? well, i do. and for a couple of reasons, i mean, committee offices more important and for a couple of reasons, i mean, first of all, offices more important than individual person. so, for the sake of the office of the presidency, i do think that it's too much of a sideshow and distraction, and he needs to be able to concentrate on his due process, and there is a presumption of innocence. the second reason is, throughout my eight years as governor and as a political leader, i have always said that the people don't have to step aside from public office if they are under investigation, but if it reaches the point of criminal charges that have to be answered, the office is always more important than a person. doug, tha

joining us now, alaner the, wits, author of "get trump." 9 -- now, alan, i know you've been slamming alvin braggels case with the caveat that the indictment is sealed, we haven't seen all of what he has. how much of it has to do with the credibility of michael cohen, trump's former lawyer,ing with the key witness in. >> well, everything has to do with it. it turns out that michael cohen was the central witness in front of the grand jury. bragg tried hard to to prevent michael cohen's former lawyer from testifying in front of the grand jury. he didn't call him, didn't give the e-mails. basically, costello burst into the grand jury and insisted on being heard. and i think it's unethical for a prosecutor to use a witness who has such a long history of lying. and, by the way, the history hasn't stopped. he tweeted other day a malicious lie about me. he didn't like the fact that i had called him a liar, which is true, and so he said i was associated with jeffrey epstein, underage girls on the island, all of that stuff. so he's continuing to lie. it's not as if god came down to him and said, you know,

if bragg alleged a murder spree, okay, we should look at this. alan dershowitz appreciate you coming on. it was a spectacle in new york. that was the entire point of it, to terrify voters in a general election from voting for trump. a judge let a photographer into the courtroom, in addition to sketch artists so they had pictures of trump in court. the same media outlets insisted they were very somber, approaching this situation with the respect it was due. >> my thought is it's a very sad day for america. >> if you don't see this as a sad day for america. >> so serious and solemn. >> sadness. i think we got to this point in america. >> it is a sad day for america. >> it is a serious night and a somber moment for our country. >> it should be a somber moment. i have a lot of friends on the left side of the spectrum who are doing a happy dance and i don't think that's appropriate. >> tucker: it's just not appropriate. steve crackour covers television. he is author of uncovered. look, the the falseness i think comes right through on the tube. there's one

think it's worth worth repeating, in mid-december of ya last year, alvin bragg got a conviction for the trump organization. and also alan wisenberg, the former accountana coon ft fr donald trump, is serving time attorney omp, is serving time he's seventy six .ot a rosalyn, i believe, also gotctig a conviction against the trump organization and in january , they issued a fine of one point six dollars million that had to be paid. t time it was shortly after that time that this grand jury was seated. was there somethins seatedg in e that bragge saw that couldaw? be presented during trial? that's somethingt remainseen. to be seen. okay, back on the issue, what i did not realize is that youo e could file a motion fornted the minutes that represented for the grand jury. why is that important? because then you could find the wording for how , in, ho the words of trustee, how doeshw the law apply in a case like this now? and i thincoulk there could bedn discovery, a lot of informationf on behalf of trump's attorneys that they will learn aboutorne the process in there. p thenprocess in there. p then what do you do you get before

alan dershowitz will join us . but first, we have new detailssm from alvin bragg's. repulsive political witch hunt.t according to sources that we have, bragge demanded that sou donald trump turn himself inal today. less thad trn twenty four hourse after the grand jury voted unfairly to indict him. the but because of security concerns, the arraignment won't take place until next week.y tu probably on tuesday afternoon,n. donald trump will be booked.e wb he will be fingerprinted. there will ba e a mumug shot.g the media mob, they will get their so desired mug shot. now, my gut instinct tells me that my friend, my colleague, peter seth, who was on lastg tob time, he's going to be proven correct. that photograph will end up on more t-shirts and more hats that sayn maga and trump 2020 four . it will also appear beforeor judge juan mershon, who by the way, the very same judge who is accused of railroadingth the former cfo of the trump organization. now, according to trump,itch the judge assigned to my huntcas case hates me. >> now, at this point, would you expect anything

alan dershowitz the author of the soon released to be trial of the century, fox news legal analyst greg jarrett is with us bragg is suing jim jordan over the trump indictment. aren't we talking about federal money going to bravg number one and number two is there an oversight issue involved in anybody that's a d.a. or attorney general run to go get one man as a political platform? >> well, you're right, congress has broad oversight authority on any federal matter. it's part of their legislative investigating powers in article i of the constitution especially involving federal matters and here there are three federal matters also bragg admits he used federal money for his investigation of trump. second of all he's usurping the power of federal prosecutors by bringing an indictment that relies heavily on the offense of federal campaign finance and finally this appears to be a clear cut case of interference in a federal election. how do we know that? because bragg made it clear when he was running for offense, vote for me and i'll prosecute and convict and put behind bars donald trump but it's more than that his t

bragg and, in a particularly risky move, attacking the presiding judge. the same judge who heard the case last year against the trump organization and who sentenced long-time cfo alan weissburg to prison. in several posts, trump calls him a quote, trump hating judge. some legal experts are now questioning whether the judge will issue a gag order and how that would affect the former president who plans to speak from his mar a-lago home when he returns tomorrow night. >> let's bring in jon carl. the real question about whether the judge will impose this gag order. we've been given no indication so far either way. it is a given though that this judge will likely be very aware of what donald trump says. he does plan to speak tomorrow night to supporters outside mar a-lag in the hours after he's charged. >> he might not say much in new york, gets back to florida, i expect we will hear an all out campaign against prosecutors, not just in this case but in the other criminal investigate eights he is facing, an all out campaign against the criminal justice system. a campaign that will be indistinguishable from his presidential campaign. he's attacked investigators in the pa

interesting, alan dershowitz was talking to charlie kirk yesterday on your show and he said former president donald trump will probably be convicted in new york city by a jury who voted for bragg voted for get trump, allen dershowitz said. he said it will be reversed on appeal he said that alvin bragg is going to be very popular. he will probably get reelected and win the case unless there is a change of venue. >> brian: or it's dismissed. >> ainsley: even here in new york people are talking about this. they are saying just like newt gingrich did. they might have just guaranteed that he will be the republican nominee. and. >> steve: that's right. >> ainsley: newt gingrich said even when mitt romney and jeb bush and others come out and say this is wrong, you are seeing sort of a consolidation of trump vs. a corrupt establishment. >> brian: i think there is a couple things going on. this case is a joke. there is nothing here. alvin bragg should just resign. he should be embarrassed. iif you even flip to other channels, no one can figure out what he is up to. >> ainsley: where is the second crime? >> brian: nobody can figure out what he is doing. it cost the city $200 million and

letters to alan brag, asking for his testimony, something that the council for the da's office here in manhattan has pushed back on president trump asked house republicans to investigate alvin bragg. no, i don't believe so. and i'm not going to speak for the chairman. but to my knowledge that is not occurred. you have members of congress who have actually watched the weaponization of various agencies of the federal government. whether you want to talk about the fbi, cdc, etcetera, we already know that the fbi and cdc have suppressed free speech in the united states at the social media companies. so our concern is that you have elements of these agencies who have been sending information to alvin brags office because let's be very clear. you got elements of our agencies who want to get rid of trump to, obviously that something was going on with the mueller probe, etcetera, so that's our concern. we want to make sure that you don't have aspects of the federal government trying to aid in a bed through the back door. the political persecution of the former president. okay, i should note those are your allegations , and we should note that we have not actually seen the indictment when

former cfo, alan wieselberg to prison for five months, and about to oversee the steve bannon case over the border wall and defrauding donors later this year and a lot made whether the d.a. bragg had any say in the judge. and we were told the d.a. has no say, that is a decision made by the court and usually it's random, but if a judge has the kind of intel or has, for instance, overseen cases that are related, and in this case he obviously has, having overseen three of those cases i just mentioned, then that trump's those other things, for lack of a better word there. and that is why he would perhaps see this case. so i think it's going to be fascinating in the sense this is obviously somebody that the former president on truth social, says he hates trump outright, and his attorney said no, no, no, pulling back on that, saying we don't think he's biased. fascinating to see how the judge reacts to the former president and defense lawyers and what the playbook will be from his defense. i think that will probably be the most substantive things in terms of the motions laid out by him. >> john: he was appointed by then mayor bloomberg to the family court in 2006, judge merchan's li

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

law professor alan dershowitz, also the author of the soon to be released trial of the century fox news legal analyst greg jarret is with us . let mes lega start with you, gr, because bragg now is suings th jim jordan over the trump indictment. are wep talking about federall money? going to brag, number one money . and number two , is there an issue and oversight issues involved two? a anybody that's a d.a d. or anatn attorney general running to get one man as a political platform ? >> well, you're right. congress has broad oversight authority on any federal matters. >> it's part of their legislative vesting power in article one ofg po the constitution, especially when it involves federalstitut matters in here.io involv there are three federal matters. first,l matter of all, bragg rey admits he used federal money for his investigation of trump. second of all, he is usurpingg h the power of federal prosecutors by bringing an indictment that relies heavily on the offense of federal campaign finance and finally, this appears to be a clear cut case of interference ine know a federal election. >> how do we know that? because bragg made it clear when he was running for office

alan weisselberg. also, joe, his lawyer, said yesterday he had no reason to believe that the judge in this case is biassed. two oh points, calling for the ousting of district attorney bragg, concerned about the jury pool. that is something here that would potentially come forward from his own defense team to the judge but at this point he said that they have not had the internal conversations yet mika >> vaughn, thank you for your reporting this morning let's bring in the host of "the last word" having the first word on this monday morning, lawrence o'donnell. good to see you. >> great to be here. thank you. >> good. what do you make of the next 24 hours in terms of security concerns, chatter on the internet, trump, of course, trying to make hay over the indictment i'm just watching whether or not the judge during the arraignment says don't talk about this give some clear lines that perhaps he can't cross. >> now that he is a criminal defendant and a judge supervising the case this is the first time in his life where his speech can be controlled in some way. it's going to be interesting to see when and if the judge takes that step to gag donald trump. you could begin wit

he presided over alan weiss dahlberg case that was the chief financial officer for the trump organization. he is also obviously gone after the district attorney in this case, alvin bragg, calling him an animal, calling him a racist attacking him at length. and also there was the question about that post that trump had posted on truth social, which included a link to a photo of alvin bragg next to a photo of trump holding a baseball bat. in a photo from his time at the white house, and it was just remarkable to see those three trump attorneys spending a lengthy amount of time right after they got out of the courthouse where their client just pleaded not guilty. defending his social media post you heard joe tacopina, saying he wasn't swinging the baseball bat in that picture, saying, we're not. social media consultants were not p r consultants were attorneys, but we are seeing how those two things are colliding here because those social media posts by the former president were brought up there inside the courtroom when it came to what he has said about alvin bragg and about the case at large, and just a remarkable moment there to see how that has affected this, and trum