the scenes we re seeing it s a security question. yes. you can see the police tape and barricades behind sara murray there. we re told law enforcement officials are on high alert, obviously. we spotted secret service agents going through the courthouse building sort of advanced prep from what we ll see today. shimon prokupecz is there manning the barricades himself. why don t you show us what s going on? reporter: well, so we re on the third street side of the courthouse. you heard sara talk about when he gets here and the process. so this is normally the entrance here, john, that is closed. they re only allowing staff in here. these are the officers protecting the outside, interior of the building. they re out with bomb sniffing dogs. but this, john, is the street we expect the former president to drive through as he enters the courthouse.
reporter: well, jake, the miami police department really has not provided any information on exactly what their security presence is going to be outside of the federal courthouse in downtown miami. as you noted, there is going to be a news conference come 2:00 where the chief of police as well as the mayor of miami, frances suarez, they re expected to answer questions on the number of officers they re going to have outside of the federal courthouse building, and i m being told they may be announce something street closures in and around the downtown miami area. now law enforcement sources have told cnn that a group of fbi agents have been assigned to a domestic terrorism squad to identify any possible threats to the federal courthouse in downtown miami, and that they re also keeping a close eye on the proud boys. apparently the group, some of the members, have been communicating with each other on traveling to south florida here and so the fbi, as well as law
that the law enforcement took part in and we understand that there is a threat assessment done of this federal courthouse building, and there is no credible threat of this time, and there are additional resources sent here at this time, and secret service has to be making preparations to protect the former president donald trump who they are going to protect and continue to protect because he served as president of the united states, and again, obviously running for off office. but even with that, it is kick off a long process to kick off the trial when something is charged with the indictment charged yesterday, and we are waiting to see what the indictment is, and what it says and when the paperwork is going to be unsealed, and then the arraignment to where donald trump is expected to come into court and plead not guilty, and he is going to discuss the terms of the release, and likely not to be held in any custody pending trial, and he would very
as relates to the hush money payments. they re leaving themselves without a lot of safety net there, john just in terms of nypd secret service, or they obviously, i assume expecting there already been getting a lot of threats. what are they expecting? tomorrow? well, what they re looking out for is any demonstration that s larger than what they re tracking. where they re tracking so far is small crowds. small turnouts. um then there is the threat piece. the district attorney has received numerous threats. the d a s office has received threats. the courthouse building has received threats. they re assessing those in tracking those because those keep coming in what they what they have determined is they don t see any credible specific threats, although they ve gone out on a lot of investigations to talk to people who have posted things about what they think should happen to people and, you know, building guillotine z and you know, bringing guns and stuff like that so far, um, they re pre