i am richard louis in fo yasmin vossoughian coming to you live from 30 rock and i am garrett haake an west palm beach, florida not far from mar-a-lago from where donald trump rock th political world today saying h was going to be arrested o tuesday. as i ve been noting throughout the day, though his own lega team says they haven t gotte any word that that i definitely going to happen the manhattan da has commented on trump s post, which h admits a striven by medi reports he has seen and heard. trump s pronouncement toda should not come as a surpris given just how much she ha been wrapping up the rhetori this past week our enemies are desperate t stop us because they know that we are the only ones who can stop them and they know it ver strongly the radical left democrats are using their prosecutors to try and steal another election all right garrett, you will join us throughout this hour a we continue to talk about trum and his tweet or as his messag was put out on socia
lifting off just lifted off for palm beach, florida we ll be delivering remarks tonight at mar-a-lago at 8:15 eastern time. the hearing was shocking to many in that they had no case, no surprises. therefore, no case. virtually every legal pundit has said that there is no legal case here. there s nothing done illegally. let s go live to bryan llenas in new york with the latest on this case. what we saw today. bryan? bret, good evening, well video cam cameras were not allod inside the courtroom. our courtroom producer said that the former president trump walked in with a swagger and he had a stern face. and at the end of his arraignment, he glared at manhattan district attorney alvin bragg. the man attempting to put him behind bars. former president trump stone-faced walked in new york criminal court after he was arrested and fingerprinted behind closed doors at the manhattan criminal courthouse. inside the courtroom, photographers captured trump sitting with his attorneys
Cite as the other crime trump allegedly intended to commit or conceal . And second and perhaps most important, will the jury be allowed to consider misdemeanors as well . I want to bring in nbcs Vaughn Hillyard live outside the courthouse. Chuck rosenberg and Catherine Christian are both with us here in the studio. So chuck, explain how this decision may go and how the judge may frame the instructions, which could be really determinative as to whether a jury that might be confused or conflicted might be looking for an Exit Strategy other than a guilty verdict. So some context might be helpful. The jury has heard all the facts. The judge will now instruct the jury on the law. Itll be their map to apply the facts that they heard to the law as they are instructed. The way the two sides, the prosecutors and the defense sort of fight it out, andrea, to get their preferred Jury Instructions read to the jury. This all takes place at the thing thats about to start, a charging conference. A lot
to be easy to proof. it would be a misdemeanor. that would not be within the statute of limitation. we don t know what the felonies of the statute of limitations the misdemeanor would be by years. in order to make this a case that can survive a test of those statute of limitations they had to bring this as a felony. and so, the way they ramp up a misdemeanor falsifying business records charge to a felony 1 is to say that it was with intent to defraud or intent to commit another crime made and conceal the commission of another crime. bret: right. which is the new york law. are they doing. don t know what the crime was. bret: are they doing it to the federal election law? are they doing it to some other state new york law? what are they doing? i mean, if you read this indictment, they could be doing it to a drunk driving case. honestly, that s how ve vague tt thing is. let s assume that it is to the federal election law, which it s going to be, i m sure. when we get the bill of p
should protest if they fee like they are moved to protest he also used an action phras garret he said take our nation back that sounds a lot to me like i goes to the capital and stop the steal. iguana want to move to what they brought up the last hou in the thought of, it may no be what is simply called hus money and this particular case that it could be - in other parliaments ami happen in the investigatio through conversation and witnesses and the testimon that they have heard so far. what could that be yeah you, know it s interesting because we hav been hearing all along richard about how this case really involves a misdemeanor falsifying business records. i suspect that will be one o the charges we see once th grandeur votes out charges but i have to believe that there will be other charges that are attached to this falsification of business records.