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hatred and selective prosecution on steroids. this is necessary, but obviously it s a momentous and tragedy. good morning, everyone and here we are unprecedented moment in american history. donald trump, now the first ex president in the history of this country to be indicted and face criminal charges, charges, sources are telling cnn he is facing more than 30 counts related to business fraud here in new york . he is expected to turn himself in. on tuesday. the manhattan district attorney s case is centered around the accounting of hush money payments to stormy daniels. we ve learned about the grand jury s historic decision. we learned about that last night katelyn polantz some members of trump s camp or caught off guard because his legal team was speculating that maybe this case by the manhattan d a was falling apart. so later this hour. one of trump s current attorneys is going to join us live. also this morning. i want to show you just what everyone is waking up to a ....
That? what s your sense of what happens between now and tuesday? well, look, you know, i ll tell you the big picture is you know if you re representing him on the new york case, you ve got a lot of stuff to be focusing on. but one of them is going to be pre trial motions. i know. ellie in the earlier segment, talked about how that s a part of the process. you know, you don t usually win on a pretrial motion saying, hey, the government s got the worst witnesses imaginable, even if that happens to be true. you went on legal issues, and this case is all about it looks like from the outside right now. mental gymnastics that don t add up. i mean legal gymnastics. they re going to fall apart. so i would think in very short order, you ll see a motion to dismiss or several motions to dismiss talking about this kind of impossible theory of stacking a federal crime into a state misdemeanor statute of limitations issues and very importantly, the intent to defraud. that s an element of these false ....
Crime? a little bit of a legal difficulty there, though, because it s state court. remember what we re talking about a federal election. can you talk, though, ellie about the fact that what the prosecution is going to have to argue here to try? right to try to succeed. on these charges is they re going to try to put a have to tie a federal crime. to a state charge and that is uncharted and has never been done in this way ever in the history of the state of new york, when you hear trump s legal team say these charges are unprecedented, to an extent, they re not true falsification of business records charges combination the way they re doing it. that s the unprecedented part that again we are in state court here, and they re looking at potentially charging a violation of federal campaign law that s going to go to the judge before it ever gets to a jury quickly. trump s defense trump s defense is going to be the main defense is going to be is going to attack michael cohen, michael cohen s ....
District attorney is now looking at what they are going into. it is remarkable. the time that has lapsed here and the fact that it has culminated with this indictment that we saw walk through from 2006 until where we were and where we are now is remarkable indeed, kaylin. thank you. so that s the timeline. let s talk about what came immediately after right 16 4017 donald trump paid michael cohen back. but the series of monthly checks right $35,000 a month month after month different case , but when michael cohen was looking at charges, the doj said that those checks or accounted for his legal expenses, even though they were not part of any legal services provided to trump that year. so now what? ellie hoenig is back, cnn senior legal analyst okay, ellie let s start . i guess where we are. now where will be on tuesday? what happens now? so this is historic . this is unprecedented. but you know what? it s just a case as well. it will be titled people of the state of new york versus donal ....
Advance a potential crime. it s still not exactly clear how that law may have been broken. but we do know that before the government papers were removed from mar a lago corcoran drafted a letter in june two fellow federal authorities saying that all classified documents had been returned from president trump. it was also signed by another attorney. let s get some legal analysis now with cnn s senior legal analyst elie honig , former federal and state prosecutor. ellie let s start with this development in the classified documents probe your understanding of corcoran s testimony tomorrow. what are prosecutors going to be looking for? boris? this is a big win by the justice department. they went to a judge, and they argued , we should be able to break through the traditional strongly held attorney client privilege because of something called the crime fraud exception, prosecutors showed to a judge s satisfaction not beyond a reasonable doubt by a low or standard. that these ....