Clearly, this is a history making day, especially
you are because New York has been on pins and needles
waiting for this to happen and now it has, it has and
I'll be interested to see what the scene really ends up
looking like downtown because right outside of the
courthouse, security was moved every single day. It was
a different level of security you could hear as the
commotion around the courthouse got bigger. There would
be more officers outside, more barricades outside. We
never saw the level of protesting that I think that th
NYPD had prepared for. There was concerns, especially
that first Monday after the president posted that he
was going to be arrested, there was a lot of
expectation there was going to be protests and really
the most was about a dozen people there. But for the
last about two weeks, we really have been waiting to
see if this indictment was going to happen. I want to
note even though we had heard over the last, you know,
couple days that they were going to wait until mid
April to resume, resume their testimony. The grand jury
actually has a deadline of tomorrow. So this makes
sense when you look at the way that the grand jury
operates. Grand juries are impaneled for only a certain
amount of time. People only are able to give their
personal time for so long. So they bring them in, they
give them a host of cases and then they dismiss the
bring in a new grand jury. And so they were butting up
against this deadline of April one. This grand jury was
going to have to either they're going to have to either
go to a judge and ask for an extension or they were
going to have to entirely new grand jury and start from
the very beginning with them. And so neither of those
options are really great options for Alvin Bragg. And
so this actually the timing on this, we were thinking
that this is when it was going to be until earlier,
this week, when all the commotion started that they
were going to take the rest of the week off and next
week. And so just goes to show that the grand jury
really does operate to a degree in secrecy and all the
efforts that we make to try to figure out what is going
on inside of there. You know, Alvin Bragg really kept
quiet. The only information we really got from him
throughout this entire process was about making sure
that there was safety and security for the people
inside the courthouse when there were threats being
emailed and phoned in and threatening letters includi
a white substance last Friday. That's really the only
real information that we've seen come out of the
District Attorney's office. He has been incredibly
quiet throughout this entire process. Hey, Alex, I want
you to describe what you're not seeing. You know, we're
so used to describing what we see. But in this case,
the security outside the Manhattan courthouse, there
are no spontaneous crowds and and I bring this up from
historic perspective when Marion Barry was arrested
that night. Within minutes, thousands of people in
Washington DC had spilled into the streets the night
that Joe Biden was confirmed as the president that
afternoon when he was confirmed as the president,
people spontaneously spilled ou into the streets when
he said he was going to be indicted on that Tuesday. He
called for protest. Would you describe for our audience,
what didn't happen in New York City because he wanted
people to go and take back our country I believe was
the way that he phrased it, that didn't happen. And
even just this year, this past year, I should say when
the Dobbs decision came down, we were in Washington
Square Park all around the whole city. I mean, there
were tens of thousands of people there protesting that
decision. You have to remember we are in a very blue
city here so that obviously plays into it. But what we
did not see last week was really any protesting at al
the individual people that were there, which I wouldn't
say was more than a dozen or so throughout the cour
of the week, they, you know, come by, a couple of them
were wearing costumes and things that* is carrying
signs. But there wasn't a scheduled protest in the way
that we have seen with so many other, um, topics aroun
the country he had, there was one protest originall
scheduled for Monday evening after that first Monday
after he had announced that he was arrested about a
week ago and it was supposed to be from the New York
Young Republicans Club and only about a dozen people
showed up and it dispersed within a couple of minutes.
And so I think that that just goes to show the lack of
support that he frankly has in this area. Um, and so, I
mean, that part of the reason that's why we know he
left New York. Um, I think that this could be, there
you were talking a little bit about venue, um, that
might be a discussion that his lawyers are having about
getting a fair trial. And would he be able to do that
here How do you begin to pick a jury Um, that is going,
obviously, everybody knows who he is and has likely
heard of this, uh, these hush money payments. Um, but,
you know, going through that further, you know, will
they be, how will they be able to pick this jury to
make sure that, that it's an unbiased one. Um, you know,
I think if the reflection is here, um, there's, there's
a lot of work for them to do.