of the first federal arraignment of a former u.s. president in the history of this nation. security is tight as donald trump is about to respond to the most serious criminal charges, twice impeached and twice indicted former commander in chief has faced. trump is at his golf club outside miami, expected to heed to the courthouse soon. this is cnn s special coverage of the arrest and arraignment of donald trump. i m anderson cooper. i m jake tapper. the former president will be placed under arrest. he will likely be fingerprinted electronically and then he is expected to plead not guilty to the unprecedented 37-count indictment. trump is accused of willfully mishandling highly classified documents brought to his mar-a-lago resort after he left office and accused of allegedly conspiring to try to hide these documents, stashing boxes in unsecured locations, including a ballroom and a bathroom. trum aide walt nauta is also charged in the indictment and expected to appear alongs
out. donald trump facing 37 counts for his handling of classified documents including willful retention of government documents, obscu obstruc documents concerning nuclear weaponry of the united states. u.s. vulnerabilities to attack. the indictment includes images of boxes stacked across mar-a-lago including a ballroom, a shower and bathroom. a storage area. donald trump accused of personally being involved in taking documents from the white house. and after authorities asked him to return them from allegedly suggesting hiding or destroying documents. also allegedly asking what if we just ignore the request? tonight, and aid former president trump also charged in the case, queues of allegedly helping to hide documents at mar-a-lago. pierre thomas tonight and our chief legal analyst don abrams and her entire teams to anybody on the gravity of the charges and what this means now in the race for president. meantime, our political team reaching out to all of the republican can
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he was read his miranda warnings, offered attorneys, et cetera, he went into details about what he had done. he admitted to what he had done. reporter: the county sheriffs office also revealed that there were red flags about the shooter well before monday s mass killing. in april of 2019, police were called about a suicide attempt of his. five months later, a relative contacted police after the suspect threatened to quote kill everyone in the family. but still, he was able to obtain the illinois equivalent of a gun license in 2020. today the prosecutor tried to explain it. there was never a firearm restraining order. that s what i had used the term red flag. that type of order mr. crimo has never been involved in that type of order. that s an order where family members and other individuals can go to a court and ask that somebody have firearms taken and not be allowed to piurchase firearms. that did not happen in mr. crimo s case. cnn security correspondent, josh gamb