bragg questioned witnesses about an alleged payment made to model karen macdougall.he former president has denied any wrongdoing and has denied the affairs. and he has also responded to the indictment with outrage writing a lengthy response including this is a political persecution and election interference at the highest level in history. he also called d.a. bragg a disgrace writing, quote: he is doing joe biden's dirty work and that the american people realize exactly what the radical left democrats are doing here. trump's attorney said last night that there's no crime. >> he didn't have any information, any evidence but, again, that was nazi germany. that was soviet union. that was communist china where you pick the target. the person you don't like. the political opponent and then you find the crime. because there is no crime here. i'm telling you there is no crime. i know the facts. i know the law. and i really want to see where this is going to go. >> people in florida clearly already rallying around the former president. demonstrating in front of his mar-a-lag

but what about the karen macdougall factor.hat did david pecker say as the last witness to go in there and the essential witness still going to be michael cohen looks like it will be which obviously has huge credibility issues. a lot of things people jumping to conclusion people saying it's wrong or right. this is fantastic. we just don't know until they unseal the case. the one thing pretty clear this has never been done before. everyone agrees unprecedented for this case to go to -- this election case in new york to go -- become a federal case. so it's unproven ground and is this how you want to do it? >> steve: well, we will find out. there is a story that i think i saw in the daily mail or the "new york times" this morning that said that apparently the department of justice in washington is irritated by the indictment because they think this -- of the four cases that donald trump is currently being investigated for or probed, this is the weakest of the cases. and the worry is that it would damage the georgia case, which, ke

astronaut round alleged hush money payments made to stormy daniels and former playboy model karen macdougallefore the 2016 election. as to what to expect next, once the former president flies from mar-a-lago, florida to new york city he will arrive at the manhattan criminal court on tuesday afternoon. sources tell fox there will not be a public arrival nor a perp walk. trump will not be handcuffed and secret service is expected to be by his side at all times. once trump is processed, presumably fingerprinted and his mugshot taken, he will be led to a courtroom and in the same building where the judge will read the charges, trump will likely plead not guilty and be released on his own recognizance. judge same judge who sentenced former trump administration five months in jail for tax fraud. trump attacked with her chan on truth social. >> the judge assigned to my witch-hunt case a case that has never been charged before hates me. as for whether trump could get a fair trial in new york city. >> it's going to be very challenging. the judge, his lawyers will seek extremely broad discretion, extr

the national enquirer paid a woman named karen mcdougal $150,000 in august of 2016, and what is known as a catch and kill. basically, the enquirer bought macdougalls story, about a romantic relationship with donald trump in 2006, and then the acquirer killed it. it never went to press. in any other news cycle, this story would've been a bombshell. in the last week, of a wild campaign, the mcdougal story got very little attention. first of all, the country was still reeling from the release of trump's access hollywood tape, which had happened a month earlier. just days before, fbi director james comey had announced the fbi was taking another look at hillary clinton's emails, and stories were already swirling about an fbi investigation that had been opened into donald trump and his campaign's ties to russia. so, a lot was going on. and the hush money payments, the catch and kill situation, involving karen mcdougal, that all got lost in the fog. lost but not forgotten. because that story, that campaign finance violation, would come back to haunt president trump. in 2018. this time, people paid attention. the date was january 12th, 2018. it was almost