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
the indictment of former president trump. in court today. in new york. the 45th president of the united states, your former boss sitting in the courtroom, pleading not guilty to 34 counts. your thoughts on this day and what it means big picture? well, bret, you are right. i m not in the united states today but everyone is talking about it just like a lot of folks in the united states talking about it, too. trying to figure out how the heck a prosecutor from manhattan in new york could pros prosecuta series of statements made back in 2016, 2017. when he goes out and say well i m not going to normalize serious crime. it strikes all of them as tin eared. we know that s not why this prosecution was chosen. i have had a chance to read down through briefly the 34 counts. he made them felonies. i think this suggests what we all feared this is a political prosecution. and the prosecutor should not have made such a judgment to