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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 ....
22 past the hour we are learning more at the other man at the center of trump s indictment, the judge assigned to the case juan merchan, an immigrant who put himself through lawsuit and spent 16 years on the bench and he puts on his robe today to preside over an arrangement like none other trump said the judge was handpicked by bragg. and we are joined by intelligence reporter, ken ....
Impartial judge. donald trump should be happy he has judge merchan. he doesn t hate him. i don t know what those comments were about his reputation on both sides, when you have defense attorneys and prosecutors praising a judge, that s a darn good judge. katharine, the former president tweeting out that he thinks that judge merchan should recuse himself because he over saw the criminal trial of alan weisselberg. is there any reason for the judge to recuse himself from this trial that request will be denied if during the trial judge merchan said derogatory comments about mr. trump or appeared to be bias against trump, which he did not, then maybe you would have an argument but in that trial he was fair and impartial, and the words donald trump and anything ....
With grace and respect, and he s a listener and a man that keeps his word even some of donald trump s own lawyers praised judge merchan. judge merchan accepted one plea deal from a woman but chided her for bringing her 9-year-old daughter to the sentencing one manhattan d.a. said he reads every word on every page of every filing, which one would hope for from a judge. what do you know about him i think donald trump should listen to his attorneys, and there s a reason why his attorneys have not trashed him because he s a smart, fair and ....
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 ....