today in inside politics, destination destiny. soon donald trump takes off for florida, and tomorrow he sees inside a miami federal court with decades in jail on the line. plus, worry that words can and will hurt people. the former president and his allies put law enforcement on edge with calls for retribution. congressman jamie raskin joins me ahead. and trump s 2024 republican rivals are choosing between two paths attacking law and order or risking voter anger by saying the president, the former president, was wrong. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. right now heading for history. you re looking at live pictures of former president donald trump. any moment he takes off for florida from newark airport. we all just watched his motorcade make the 30-mile drive from his golf resort, and tomorrow he goes in front of a federal judge in miami. and there trump will were the title, something he hasn t wanted, the first former president to fa
motorcade make the 30-mile drive from his golf resort, and tomorrow he goes in front of a federal judge in miami. and there trump will were the title, something he hasn t wanted, the first former president to face a federal arraignment. let s go straight to cnn s kristen holmes. help us capture the moment and what you re hearing from your sources in trump world. reporter: look, they are taking this very seriously. here s what we know so far we just saw trump go by several minutes ago, he drove by here. they arrived at the newark airport. when they land in miami, they will be going up to his doral club. i am told there they re going to meet with lawyers, talk about their legal strategy going into this. remember, they lost two lawyers on this case, two lawyers resigned. they are looking for a strong florida-based attorney who can deal with the department of justice. someone who has experience with that. we know that they are making calls, trying to gauge interest in what attorneys or
what we do know always is that this the choice of bringing this case by the justice department, to bring this case here in miami is something that took shape over the last few months. you know, dana, that the grand jury in washington has been kind of the venue where they ve been gathering most of the evidence. so it took people took people by surprise a little bit that they chose to bring it here. one of the issues that surfaced for prosecutors was the issue of venue, which was the fact that mar-a-lago, which is where the former president took these documents, that s in this district. made it more difficult to bring a case in washington which, you know, let s be honest, would have been probably a jury more friendly toward the prosecution, and he ll probably get a friendlier trump jury here in southern district of florida. dana? that s really interesting about the venue because it has been a big question, not just about choosing that, you know, that there are reasons for that, but
so no. you know, senator mcconnell said it pretty well at the end of the impeachment trial. he said that the criminal process will continue and that former presidents have to be held accountable there. i disagreed with what mcconnell was saying about how the senate didn t have jurisdiction to try a former president. but he was absolutely right that the criminal process is still there. some of your colleagues on the other side of the aisle have started to escalate their rhetoric when it comes to mobilizing in response to what we re going in miami. to be fair, the former president said explicitly that it should be peaceful. others have, too. but there are those who have used war metaphors and things like that. is this something you are concerned about, particularly what you know about january 6th, what you experienced on january 6? i think the whole country understands what happened on january 6th when the use of apocalyptic and militaristic metaphors and imagery and
one and the same. the big question, too, for republicans is how quickly does this happen. does this drag through the election year, or is it punted until 2025. that s a good point. there was a moment in an interview that the former president gave to politico that really caught our attention here. and i want to show you the key quote. he said, nobody wants to be indicted. i don t care that my poll numbers went up by a lot. i don t want to be indicted. i ve never been indicted. i went through my whole life, now i get indicted every two months. it s been political. the political thing is kind of typical. but the rest of it i thought was very, very telling. it was. and this is something he s actually always been worried about when you talk to his friends and advisers about the idea of getting in trouble or getting really his control taken away from him. once again this is going to be him walking into a courtroom, into a venue where he does not control. so for the next several month