the same day he surrenders when he surrenders on these charges. um and i am told by my sources that this is 34 counts of falsification of business records, which is probably a lot of charges involving each document, each thing that was submitted as a separate count in a couple of matters. so he would surrender to the district attorney s office now presumably that would happen at the district attorney s office. he d be taken upstairs to the detective squad, he d be fingerprinted and photographed mug shot. they would be given a conference room because, remember, nothing is the same here. he s a defendant who is under guard by the united states . secret service. i can t remember in history that ever occurring before. yeah detail will be with him. presumably they would put him in a conference room and say, all right, you are now booked. right and your information is get being entered into the system now will have an arraignment judge. they ll bring him to the
others in the conference room to wait while they arrange an arraignment judge, which is going to examine the question. of course, in the case, if he were indicted, he would be released on his own recognizance. but nobody has ever done that with a former president of the united states before. they re talking about will there be a throng of media? sure there will be. will there be demonstrators? that s possible. will there be counterdemonstrators? that s why they ve been sitting around figuring out, we need contingency on contingency on contingency. just looking at all that, looking at the choreography, are you saying there s actually a date in mind. or this is the potential, if this should happen, they have to have a plan in place. because once the decision is made, we ll have to move pretty quickly. that s not when you start the planning about all you just described. that s right about the planning. it s the moving part that s a little mysterious. you know, normally nothing s
an arraignment judge, who is going to examine the question of bail, which of course, you know, in the case, if he were indicted, he would be released on his own recognizance. but nobody s ever done that with a former president of the united states before. sources also say authorities are discussing security amid concerns about both protests and potential threats against officials from trump supporters. meantime, there has been a blockbuster ruling in the special counsel s investigation into trump s handling of classified documents. a federal judge has ordered one of trump s lawyers to answer more questions before the grand jury. katelyn polantz reports. reporter: the justice department and special counsel jack smith have won a monumental court decision on friday in their investigation into donald trump and his handling of classified records. in this decision that they got under seal from federal judge beryl howl in the d.c. district
zimmerman s brother tells cnn that the arrest was bittersweet. we are relieved that he s safe. that is, you know it s the most bittersweet news to hear in your life that your brother is being charged with a murder and to see him being taken into jail on live tv and to somehow have to think, well, at least there s something good in all of that, that he can t be attacked in all this, or he most likely can t be hurt, killed, injured in the way he has been on the run and underground in the streets for quite some time. zimmerman turned himself in yesterday after authorities said he would be charged in the case. that is him ducking into the seminole county jail with a jacket over his head. here is how trayvon martin s mother reacted to news of zimmerman s arrest. first of all, i want to say thank god. we simply wanted an arrest. we wanted nothing more, nothing less. we just wanted an arrest, and we got it. and i say thank you. thank you, lord. thank you, jesus. it s cease
prosecutor. we welcome, sun any. what are the chances that this guy will get out of riker s this week? reporter: there is a possibility. there is it another hearing on may 20th. he ll be in front of a different judge and there is no question at that time his defense attorneyses whether ask that judge to revisit the conditions of bail. at this point of course as everyone knows, he was remanded to riker s island without even the opportunity to post bail. many of us were surprised at that. we were not surprised that his passport was taken because certainly he s a flight risk under the law as that is defined because he was taken off of an air france flight prior to its departure. and so flight risk, yes. but sometimes in these cases, carol, these defendants are allowed to post a million dollars bail, $2 million bail. in this case, the arraignment judge declined that. is he in solitary