come or if it s just his attorneys. that s pretty much what you have. we re at a courtroom right now, a court building that is just a stone s throw from the u.s. capitol a few blocks from the white house. right now we re told the motorcade is getting ready and the former president is getting ready to head to reagan national airport and fly back to new jersey. neil? neil: david, we re getting records that the president was processed by the u.s. marshall s office before this went down. they took his finger prints, personal information. they weren t saying anything about a mug shot taken. i would assume he s probably among the most recognizable people on the planet. what can you tell us about that? no mug shot taken. typically in federal court, they don t take mug shots. they have plenty of images of him. this went similar to miami, another federal case. he was fingerprinted.
78 charges that carry a lot of years, centuries in prison. that is not likely to be the case, of course. but the weight of this and the sheer number of these charges just continue to pile up. i want to bring in a new panel here. shannon broom, anchor of fox news sunday. we have dana perino here with us as well. she s from america s newsroom and co host of the five. jonathan turley, fox news contributor. shannon, i want to go back to what happens next. if you re the judge here, you have to be cognizant the guy s whose case you re overseeing is running for president of the united states. he can t be in this courtroom every day once proceedings begin. and he s not too keen on being in that courtroom and that city anyway. what are your thoughts on that and where this likely goes? the timetable of it.
the whole trial. one of the interesting questions despite the historic significance, is president trump going to show up for every day and every minute of the proceedings? he has the right to do so. we want the jury to see him. we have the belief in hour system that when you put witnesses up on the trial, they should be confronted by the defendant so we can tell who is lying and who is not. president trump has to conduct a re-election campaign. will he be there every day? he will be at caucuses and primaries. that underscores the unprecedented nature of this case. the last thing i m going to add, even though this is the most important criminal trial in our history, even though the stakes are so high. i d like the justice department to have a watertight case on the facts and the law. what you ll see in this courtroom and what donald trump will see as a defendant is a prosecution that has to really press imaginative, unprecedented
fraud statute you. it was aimed at people destroying documents or intimidating witnesses to appear before hearings. it s never really been used for something like this. again, not for the connection with the people that on the january 6th capitol attacks. what smith is charging, trump violated the obstruction statue by trying to pressure pence, pressure secretaries of state, to not count the electoral vote. that s the line between is that obstructing congress or is trump trying every crazy option outside the rules to change the results? the court is very reluctant the supreme court is quite reluctant to use these criminal laws to intrude in to what they think is sort of the messy give and take and the brawling of politics, this is where the trial judge is important. someone that wanted to accelerate the case, could halt
tough on those who were involved on the storming of the capitol on january 6 and kneading out sentences that won t beyond prosecutors were asking. will she be tougher on the guy they were answering to? could be. as jessica tarlov pointed out, the take was that in florida he has a judge that might be more favorable to him because he appointed her. in this case, it might be the perception at least, might be that it could go in a different direction. when it comes to change of venue issues or the pace of this trial, she s known for having a speedy pace with these other january 6th situations. so she play be cut to the chase kind of judge on this. it s interesting. she s not there today. it was a magistrate that handled this case. we have more color from jake gibson about what it s like in there according to him, our producer on the ground. he says the president was stoic when he entered the room.