Hes been fingerprinted and processed more recently in the case of florida. All of this should happen very quickly. And then we expect that the judge will start setting up a timeline, which the Justice Department wants to happen, obviously, before the 2024 election. Something that i think is very, very possible. What we know about the judge assigned to hear this case . Because i believe shes had some pretty strong dealings with january 6th defendants. Reporter she has. And look, the judge is a jamaican born obama appointee. Shes been on the bench since 2014. Like a lot of the judges there, they dealt with this violence at the capital, right across the way from the federal courthouse. They have been processing a lot of the january 6th defendants in that courthouse. One of the things that she and others have said is, you know, essentially that people who carried out this assault on American Democracy needed to have their day in court and needed to make sure that they paid the consequences
Donald trump is expected to head to washington, d. C. Where he will make his first appearance in Federal Court in connection with the january 6 riot and attempts to overthrow the 2020 election. How the nations capitol is preparing for his Possibility Appearance down the road from the site of the insurrection. And then who are trumps six coconspirators listed in the indictment and not named and how do they fit into trumps world . Cnn has identified five of them. Who is number six . Plus, she was Speaker Of The House when the mob of maga rioters stormed the capitol. We have got to get to proceed congresswoman nancy pelosi, democrat of california will join me life with her first interview since the january 6 indictment. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Just about 24 hours from right now donald trump is expected to appear in Federal Court here in washington, d. C. Where he will face unprecedented criminal charges for his unprecedented alleged attempts to overthrow the 2020 election or
nancy pelosi joins me live in her first interview since trump s indictments. and leading this hour, donald trump preparing to appear before a federal judge here in the nation s capital in less than 4 hours, facing allegations from special counsel jack smith that he was the pivotal figure in a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election, which the special counsel called an unprecedented assault on american democracy. let s get right to evan perez. trump is scheduled to be arraigned tomorrow. what are we expecting to happen, and what do we know about a possible timeline for a trial? reporter: jake, we expect this to happen very quickly. the former president is going to come into town. they ll make him bring him to the federal courthouse very quickly from the airport. and then he ll be processed very, very quickly before he has this very short hearing before the federal magistrate there.