diaz-balart, and there are many people out there, including george santos, and marjorie taylor greene who per your reporting last hour showed up for a couple minutes surrounded by a lot of press. reporter: i was on camera with you guys and her suv pulled up and she was literally incased in press as they followed her into the park. i couldn t make a guess of how many folks were there. she was in the park for maybe five or ten minutes or so and then exited the park after a lot of commotion inside the park george santos was here as well and he was run out of the park we are three hours away from the beginning of the arraignment, about 2:15 eastern time, and we are expecting the former president at the united states to leave his residence, trump tower, and likely to leave around 1:00 or 1:30. he will have security with him as he makes his way down here. more barricades behind me beginning to go up as i take a look behind me, you see all of the barricades were recently put in pl
Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in new york along with my colleague and friend, Chris Jansing, as history is being made in that Lower Manhattan courtroom. Donald trump is the first former president of the United States to stand as a defendant in a criminal trial. At any moment, could be facing the first witness to testify against him. Thats expected to be former National Enquirer publisher, david pecker. Hes likely to be pressed about alleged efforts to bury damaging stories about donald trump during the 2016 election. Earlier this morning, prosecutors gave their open statement, accusing mr. Trump of a criminal conspiracy to hide embarrassing relationships by preventing them from getting into the press, thus influencing the outcome of the 2016 election then covering it all up. The defense followed saying that mr. Trump did not commit any crimes, describing him as not just the republican nominee, but as the frugal business man, also a husband and a father. Defense lawyer todd bla
He testified to here in new york state. Thats a legal function of the law in new york. But did mr. Pecker offer them numerous Practice Sessions as we know Michael Cohen has because weve seen him with our own eyes and cameras outside 1 Hogan Place here . My guess is no. Thats probably an explanation for why pecker didnt seem to get the gist of the prosecutor josh steinglass. His overall demeanor is sort of like Benevolent Grandma from boca. Hes friendly. Hes jovial. What he isnt, as rachel mentioned, is particularly direct. I would predict were here with mr. Pecker for at least another couple days. We should see him throughout tomorrow after the Gag Order Contempt hearing and possibly into thursday as well. As the prosecution told us at the beginning of their opening statement, this whole case is about a conspiracy between three
because of the barricades and security, and in 30 years, i have never seen that what will he expect? he will be surrounded by secret service, and he will go into 1 hogan place, which is one of the buildings you see there. i understand he will not be handcuffed and they will not take an arrest photo he will be brought up to the 15th floor where judge merchan s courtroom is the inside security will be court officers and the outside will be nypd at that time it will be just like he s not, you know, the former president of the united states, except he is, and i appreciate that. the arraignment, if it goes
sometimes their identities are not known. what kind of protections apply in this case? are we going to hear publicly the details? as you point out, which of these women is generating these charges? i would expect based on the reading of the charges tomorrow the charges will read victim number one, if there is more than one, it would be victim one and victim two and not name the victims. but as you know, based on the reporting of the new yorker and the new york times originally the women have stepped forward and made their allegations publicly. so it won t be too difficult to figure it out based on what s laid out in the charges. and also i would expect once the charges are filed to hear from eat of those women or their representatives sometime tomorrow for their reaction. we are getting ahead of ourselves. we have got to wait a minute i do not know if the grand jury has in fact voted. but we are told that charges are expected tomorrow. again, weinstein is expected to turn himself i