Transcripts For CNN The Arrest and Arraignment of Donald Tru

CNN The Arrest and Arraignment of Donald Trump July 6, 2024

, the venue for an american 1st 100 Center Street in Downtown Manhattan, playing host to a new chapter in u. S history. Today the arrest and arraignment of donald trump. Former President Trump is back in the city that made him famous. But this time to face a new reality, the first ever former president to Face Criminal Charges. Good afternoon to our viewers around the world. Im Anderson Cooper, new york and im jake tapper in washington, d c. Were just hours away from the opening gavel. Of the people of the state of new york versus donald j. Trump this is the scene, the Manhattan Criminal Courts complex for mr trump. Will surrender. Were told and then where prosecutors will drop and indictment spelling out multiple charges against him at this very moment, we still do not know exactly what those charges are and how many there are connected to mr trumps alleged scheme to buy the silence of adult film actress and director stormy, daniels said a pivotal 2016 campaign moment. As we come on air. We are told that the former president remains inside trump tower in manhattan. Were told that he will soon leave his namesake new york high rise for a trek to the 15th floor courtroom. A journey that required days of negotiation and planning with officials, every Single Police officer in new york city some 35,000 has been told to be ready for well. Or anything. Our Reporting Team will be inside the courtroom to bring you all the information about the arraignment will see photographs of the former president in court, but the actual Court Proceedings will not be on camera. Cnns team of reporters is embedded at every step of this unprecedented moment in u. S history. Cnns Katelyn Polantz outside court right now, and caitlin. That mr trump plans to speak briefly before going into the building. Yeah jake for president has been itching to talk about this looming indictment ever since he arrived here in new york yesterday. Of course, he is going to become the first ever ex president to Face Criminal Charges when he enters the Manhattan Criminal Court building behind me. That is what he is expected to do just shortly, and hes in wanting to talk publicly about this. He has not done so yet, but he will soon and one thing that his own team is worried about is what he will say because they are hoping he does not come before cameras before he enters that courtroom and says something that could further inflame the situation or potentially hurt his case, which , as of right now, we even though they have yet to see the indictment, either, jake they do believe is one that will ultimately benefit them and fall in their favor. In the end, of course, that is far from certain at this point, and at this stage of where we are at, as he is about to turn himself into the authorities, but trump has been wanting to speak publicly, and he did not want to wait. Until he returned. Maralago tonight, where he is still scheduled to give an address around 8 15 p. M. In front of surrogates and supporters. He wanted to talk about it here in new york. Initially they had planned for maybe him to deliver a speech outside of the courthouse after he left. Now hes expected to do so when there is a camera outside of the courtroom before he goes before the judge that he has been trashing, of course, the District Attorney that he has also been criticizing to his own team. Isnt quite sure what hes going to say they are hoping that he will stick to their Talking Points about how they believe this is a political prosecution jake, but certainly a historic day as the president has been on the phone with aides and advisers all morning. Paul reed is also in new york for us and paula donald trump is already out there publicly questioning whether he can get a fair trial in heavily democratic manhattan. Tell us more about that. Thats exactly right. But at this point is more of a political argument one the former president is making on social media. One is advisors will pushing over the weekend, but ive spoken with his legal team and they told me look, were going to wait until we see this indictment before we decide which motions we are going to file, but i would jake eventually expect that they will likely file a motion to change venue just so they can preserve all of their possible options on appeal. They have to be able to convince the judge if there is potentially a conviction here, that they tried everything they could for a different outcome, so i think eventually we will see a motion for A Change Of Venue but have spoken with a source familiar with the Trump Legal Teams thinking and they believe that he can possibly get a fair trial in manhattan because they believe now without seeing the indictment, they believe that there are a lot of highly educated people on juries here in manhattan that will see through this. And see it for what they believe it is, which is a political prosecution now once they see the indictment or circle back, and still if that, see if that is still the thinking, but as of now, the lawyers are not working on any attempt to move this case to staten island. All right, paula reid and Katelyn Polantz. Thanks so much. Anderson jake. Thanks very much. John miller first, um , actually joining the team, lets just start with john. What are you expecting . Well were going to have a move from trump tower. Its not what President Trump is used to. This is an 11 car motorcade, but without the phalanx of, you know, 25 motorcycles, leading it and the entire route frozen along the way and a lot of specialized vehicles. This will be, uh, Police Escort front and back and basically his secret Service Detail and some staff cars, so a lot less pomp, but for very different circumstance in that hes in a situation where they are balancing the need to deal with security needs to protect a former president while making an effort to treat him throughout this process as close as they can to any other Criminal Defendant. Theyre not going to come that close, but theyre trying to split the difference. Also joining us is former chief assistant District Attorney under the former manhattan d. A cy vance, karen friedman, magnifico karen, welcome to cnn. You you know this courtroom . You know this judge, you know this process. What are you looking at this morning . So everybody is, of course, waiting to see what the charges are. And we want to see the indictment and exactly what it looks like what hes charged with and what the theory under which many of the case the charges are being brought. Looking to see what the judge does. Is the judge going to try to restrict anything, its unlikely that theres been talking about some sort of a gag order that seems highly unlikely. Gorder is unlikely given the First Amendment constraints. That being said this judge, judge marshawn is somebody whos going to going to keep a tight control of his courtroom. Hes not going to think about politics. Hes going to think about this case. From now on. He is defendant donald trump. Hes not president ial candidate donald trump, and so you have to protect the integrity of the jury process and the trial process. So i think hes going to make sure that these these threats and these comments that that Defendant Trump Will has been making all morning about about the judge about the prosecutor. Has to rein that in and this judge will not allow him. To in any way make it so that the integrity of the process or you think its possible he may caution the former president. I think at a minimum, he will caution him and tell him he has to stop. Its clear donald trump is trying to somehow get the judge off the case, or the d, a off the case to get the case moved to another venue that he thinks is more friendly to him, and this judge is not going to allow him to do anything to cause that to happen, and to somehow you know, make this this prosecution be less than exactly the way it should be, which is fair and for him to get a fair trial. Do you also have a sense of when the president with the former president and his attorneys will actually get the indictment when they will actually know the charges because theyll know obviously, before the judge reads them out loud in court to the defendant would expect around the time that that he gets that mr trump gets processed Arrest Process with the way john miller was saying. I would expect that at that point, thats normally when the lawyers would would receive the charges that being said in this case, mr trump has been talking about speaking before he goes into court, so there may be some consideration about whether he should be permitted to speak about it before the judge is speaks about it to him. And to me. The biggest moment of today will be when we see that indictment that will be our first meaningful, substantive look. At the prosecutions case here, and theres a couple of things im looking for. First of all. How much detail do they put in the indictment is, karen knows prosecutors have completely white indictments are written by prosecutors. Some indictments are very bare bones could be thats if its 34 accounts. Theres a chance this could be 12 pages, however, sometimes especially in high profile occasions. Prosecutors put much more detail in there, so thats number one, and the second big question is what are the charges . Dividing into sort of two lanes here. Is it all based on the Stormy Daniels Hush Money Payments, or is there Something Else . How many different fronts . Is donald trump going to have to defend himself on here . I we have some signals there, which is 34 counts could be 12 pages or it could be 50 pages. But the signals are that the District Attorney has called a Press Conference for this afternoon after the indictment is unsealed. What does that tell you . What it tells you is District Attorneys generally can find themselves to only whats on the printed page of the indictment in their comments, and if the indictment is only the essential charges without the story behind them. That will be a very difficult Press Conference to call and get through with any substance, so its a tell hint at best that theres more to it and that this will be his first opportunity to not just released the document after the judge unseals it, but explain what it means also said that its important to look at whats not in the indictment. Whats there and whats not there . Yes so theres been so much speculation about what this indictment could be. As john said, perhaps there could be a conspiracy charge and that would tell a whole story about Election Interference. Not just about this one, this one scenario of Hush Money Payments to Stormy Daniels. If the theory could be here that this has been a conspiracy to influence elections, the 2016 election by the various catch and kill stories the with with david pecker, who was this ceo of american Karen Macdougal prior to this exactly with Karen Macdougal and perhaps others, other situations where they agreed to do things to influence the election. So will they confine this to just the false Business Records, which which we think it will be, or will they make this a bigger sweeping case about Election Interference, and donald trump sitting in the oval office as sitting president writing these checks 11 checks as president of the United States and right now hes going through this as the gop frontrunner. Right so were in this moment, where typically kind of post term immunity was a kind of legal courtesy extended to former president s culturally , the us kind of said, especially with Gerald Ford Pardoning Nixon that look, were not going to do this. We want to back away from the brink when it comes to these kinds of prosecutions and the fact that were here now and the fact that it might have been unavoidable, given that there are what two other investigations going on. That could also have implications is pretty straight and there could be frankly, more indictments. Sure jack smith is watching. Im sure that fani willis and Fulton County georgia is watching. Im sure theyre both glad theyre not going first. But in a way, its almost unavoidable. Remember the roots of this come out of the Mueller Investigation where they kind of unearthed this idea about the payments . And here we are all this time later, the ripple effects of this listen, if its just a its just the stormy and i dont mean to minimize it, but it just the Stormy Daniels things that we know about, right . I think this is gonna be really bad for this District Attorney and bad for america that this is the first prosecution brought against former president and its something thats deemed to be. Im not trying to minimize again. But being to be minor right . Not not expansive. I think its going to be really, really destructive documents people would say, oh, its just documents. I think with every case, minimize that im saying none of the cases would be considered the same. Well if this is the only pebble gets thrown at donald trump. After all, hes done. I agree with david, but this could be the first pebble in avalanche. And then were going to get very differently right now. Donald trump is preparing to go to Manhattan Criminal Court to turn himself in next to new move from District Attorney brag in the wake of repeated personal attacks from the former president. Special Live Coverage continues right after a quick break. 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