there s an underground entrance where the secret service can drive him into the building and bring him up to the upper floors where he ll be processed by the federal marshals. he ll be placed under arrest once he comes into the building and then the processing begins. it s a standard thing. they re doing an electronic fingerprinting of him. these usually involve photographs. we expect walt nada to be booked with a mugshot. the former president is very recognizable. we don t think the marshals will take photographs of him. from there he ll go to the courthouse and a judge will read him the charges and he ll have a chance to enter his plea. the question of his release, jake, we don t expect he s going to be there s going to be any issues with him being released. the issue we expect, however, to come up is whether he can communicate with anybody who might be considered witnesses; of course, is an issue of witness tampering which has been a concern already in this case. evan,
lawyers leading investigators to key information. you had the manhattan indictment with michael cohen. now you have evidence ran corcoran. you say corcoran was probably the source of the search warrant after he realized he was being played by trump. that s a theory. we don t know that as fact right now. well, i think i m right because there s no other way first of all, to put that into a search warrant, the probable cause for this obstruction had to come from an inside wednesday who laid it out. you don t conduct the search on a former president s residence without having a real solid probable cause. you re not going to put in circumstantial evidence. certainly corcoran was in a position where he had to realize at some point that there were 30 boxes that were hidden from him that he didn t get to look at. so she the logical person that was the inside source that gave this to the fbi. i might also add in terms of
he said these are serious allegations and he did not align himself with house republican efforts to try to discredit the special counsel and go after the justice department even as thoers rush to donald trump s defense. well, they re very serious allegations, and the burden of proof of the justice department will be high. i think there are a lot of people across the country who have skepticism about the standards of justice and how they re applied and wanting to make sure they re applied equally. it sounds like he may have obstructed the investigation, made false statements to prosecutors. does that worry you? i don t know anything about that now. they obviously got what they wanted. i don t know whether he obstructed or not. i wouldn t be culling out the drapes for a new phish building. the last comment, what the fbi has been pushing for, a new building, a new headquarters in the washington, d.c. area.
but nothing like what we saw in new york. given what happened at the u.s. capitol on january 6th, given the calls to violence that we ve heard and the bellicose language from many, many trump supporters including members of congress, do you think that s sufficient or should they be barricading and preparing for the worst? well, the downside to all this, jake, is there hant been a whole lot of time to prepare for this. the indictment just came down late last week. normally in a situation like this, law enforcement wants a lot of time to provide adequate security. i am quite sure that right now as we speak, elements of the u.s. government, the department of homeland security, u.s. marshal, federal protective service, the fbi, along with local law enforcement in miami-dade are thinking this through, are erecting hopefully the appropriate barriers.
both he and speaker mccarthy indicating that won t go forward. expecting other efforts to come from the house side of the aisle, some of them trying to go after the justice department s funding. the leadership on the republican side has not embraced the efforts to so-called defund the justice department or fbi, but could go after the fbi headquarters. this is as house republicans are trying to get information from merrick garland about the communications he had with the special counsel ahead of the search at mar-a-lago. jake, a clear split between the top two republicans on the senate side. kevin mccarthy has defended the president vocally. manu raju on capitol hill, thanks so much. we re just a few hours away from a cnn presidential town hall with chris christie. omar jimenez is following that for us. governor christie has been scathing in his criticism of the front-runner donald trump. what are you expecting to hear