Important questions that are not yet answered. Is he alone . Is this person acting alone some is this person the suspected bomber or someone connected to it . We are following all of this as we follow the progress of that van and the developments in this case. Keeping our eyes on the white house as well as President Trump is expected to speak any moment. Thank you so much for joining me. I will hand it off to john king with inside politics. We will continue our coverage. Thank you and welcome to inside politics. As kate noted, we will continue to following the dramatic Breaking News this hour. The Justice Department confirms federal authorities have arrested a man in South Florida in connection to the explosive packages sent across the country. That arrest a bit earlier today and now a dozen packages in total sent to political operatives and opponents of the president and cnn. A News Conference led by the
Attorney General here at 2 30 h here eastern time. In new york, tracking this inv
chutkan. what do you expect we ll see on friday? all eyes are going to be on judge chutkan. these are the biggest cases in the world. and the judges overseeing these are under an enormous amount of scrutiny. they know that. there s a big media presence. every question, every intonation will be reported. she s an experienced judge, been on the bench for approximately a decade. she s overseen dozens of january 6th-related cases. she is going to be under a lot of scrutiny for how she fields the arguments from both sides. both sides will have opportunity to make their case for how they believe the evidence in this case should be handled. when we were in florida with judge cannon, it was clear she had thought through her questions and at least wanted to give the appearance of being fair to both sides, being tough on both sides. she s going to be under an enormous amount of scrutiny. one thing i think is clear from judge chutkan, she wants to move this along. she certainly does.
already has enough support with all of these indictments to carry him through the victory, even though it is extraordinarily serious. is extraordinarily serious. indeed. lauren, standby is extraordinarily serious. indeed. lauren, standby for is extraordinarily serious. indeed. lauren, standby for us. is extraordinarily serious. indeed. lauren, standby for us. just - is extraordinarily serious. indeed. lauren, standby for us. just want | is extraordinarily serious. indeed. l lauren, standby for us. just want to take our viewers through the various different live pictures we have. so this is a street level, ground level outside the court in miami. these are life pictures there. you can see the activity pretty much in the background, tense of course, a big media presence there. these are the aerial pictures that we have live again of the courthouse, donald trump inside, proceedings under way, arraignment under way formal reading of alleged criminal charges. across miami and a sligh
presence here outside of the courthouse where we are. they say there are no credible threats. this is something they re doing to increase their presence here. this is a very busy area. it is really filled out over the past couple of days, but it is mostly media that s here, waiting to see what is going to happen in this historic case, in this historic moment. there have been a handful of people here with signs up. it s really very calm. it s just a big media presence. that s where we re seeing this increased level of security because you never know what can happen. thanks so much for that reporting and that update. with us now to further expand this conversation, contributor john dean who was white house counsel for president nixon and cooperated with investigators during watergate and a key witness. thanks for joining us today. we ve certainly never seen a president under indictment. this would be a first for an american president.
closer to the scene. now you can see it s wide open. the van that we have been talking about all morning that has the blue tarp over it was picked up and hauled away across the state road 7. it came right here as the state road was still closed on to that processing facility wherever they are going take it to take a closer look at it. there was heavy law enforcement and all of them armed. a big media presence. a lot of roads were close and there were police helicopters in the air as well. we are about 27 miles in this location, away from aventura where the suspect was reportedly living according to evan perez and we are not far from opa locka where the mail facility is where some of these pipes had been mailed from. as they take this vehicle away with the blue tarp, you mentioned the takers and there is the question of what s