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counts of falsifying business records. we are expecting to hear from president trump later tonight. bryan llenas is outside the courthouse in lower manhattan to break down the charges. bryan? >> jesse, good evening. former president trump charger 34 felony counts of falsifying business records here in the state of new york. just moments ago, but a couple hours ago, the district attorney of manhattan alvin bragg laid out his case. listen. >> donald trump was arraigned on a new york supr...

john berman here in for anderson. take a look. there they are. both back when they wore memphis police department uniforms, and now in their booking photos. justin smith, emmett martin iii, desmond mills jr., demetrius haley all five now ex-cops charged today with killing tyre nichols, who died three days after a traffic stop and violent arrest on the 7th of this month. all five facing identical counts, official oppression, unauthorized exercise of official power, aggravated kidnapping...

The delineation theyre making is he may have lied, but did he commit a crime? and weve heard that from house speaker kevin mccarthy, whos even punted a little bit to the constituents who actually elected him saying look, this is a duly elected congressman. my hands are tied. he did say if this rises to a legal level, that is a separate story. we will see. because there are a lot of investigations swirling right now. weve got a complaint filed against him by the campaign legal center with the fed...

Our legal unit is just going through it. its fascinating because part of what she alleges that is different than stormy daniels, miss mcdougal says she was talking to the "national enquirer," thought she was having the opportunity to speak, to write, to be published and as part of that would keep her potential silence about the history with donald trump, alleges that was illegally and fraudulently coerced, she was misled and michael cohen appeared to be working for donald trump or the trump orga...

I would not be surprised if he walked away scot-free. very few election law issues has the prosecutors won. because its complicated. they send it through donors, who got it. >> kimberly: he is right. this is a precedent-setting case, but it doesnt mean that its not a good law or he is not guilty of it. >> eric: not that different from insider trading. hard to prove. unless you have e-mails that say i did this. once you have one and on record, then all of a sudden -- >> bob: you are right. good a...

I would not be surprised if he walked away scot-free. very few election law issues has the prosecutors won. because its donors, who got it. >> kimberly: he is right. this is a precedent-setting case, but it doesnt mean that its not a good law or he is not guilty of it. >> eric: not that different from insider trading. hard to prove. unless you have e-mails that say i did this. once you have one and on record, then all of a sudden -- >> bob: you are right. good analogy. there isnt a lot of preced...