america this weekend. kasie hunt picks up our coverage right now. good afternoon. i m kasie hunt here in washington. we re going to begin with the scramble for answers after a u.s. fighter jet were scrambled three days in a row this weekend, shooting down three separate aerial objects that were flying over north america. in just moments, the white house is going to take questions on this deepening national security mystery, as president biden faces increasing pressure to address the nation to explain what exactly is going on and who is behind these incursions. we re going to bring you that white house briefing as soon as it gets under way. but we want to get started right now with cnn s kylie atwood and phil mattingly, who are tracking all of this. kylie, let me start with you at the state department. so much of this is going to depend on what the government recovers from what is shot down. what is the status of this? if they haven t determined the origins of these objects,
been proven at times to be a lie, proven at times to be consistently false, he s consistently able to make that and get republicans, his rivals to rally around that this is the top of the hour, 2:00 in new york city, and we are going to take a pause, just for all of us to take a breath and remind you of what s happening here donald trump is now inside of the courthouse in lower manhattan. we expecting him to walk down that hallway, where you see that heavy security presence. he is going to go into a courtroom for an arraignment we re told it s likely to be around 30 charges. we do not know what those charges are. we do not know if they re going to be read aloud in court. we do not know how many pages this indictment will be. but we know that donald trump by now, presumably, has been fingerprinted. and he is under arrest as we talk about the implications of this day, politically, neil cottier, let me ask you about the legal argument we make here, in some cases we ve already
explosives. more now from evan perez. reporter: according to the fbi, he checked the bag and in routine screening happening by the tsa, they found explosives in this checked bag. according to the fbi, this is what they found. they found powder that was in a plastic wrap, they found fuses. powder appears to be from commercial grade fireworks. and so the question is, you know, what was he doing with this. the airport tried to page him while he was still at the airport. he left. and he was later arrested that evening on monday by the fbi. the court documents that were released today by the u.s. attorney in philadelphia don t mention any indication of extremism or his ties to terrorist groups or anything like that, something obviously that the fbi was focused on the last couple of days. nothing like that appears to have emerged in that investigation. this is a very serious thing obviously. if you read the court documents, the fbi says that this powder that was included in this
security officials are kept in the dark about them. only the president, some members of his cabinet, or a near cabinet level official, could authorize other government officials to no details of these special access programs. now trump s fellow republicans, who had already stuck their neck out for him, without knowing all the facts, always dangerous were left exposed. and struggling to explain why it was, actually find that the ex president kept nuclear documents in the basement of services florida country club. it depends on what the nuclear information is. you can say nuclear weapons. but there are things that are highly, highly classified. there are things that are not extremely classified. but our, nonetheless, classified. the other aspect, with respect to access, is we do not know what those documents are. so, the washington post, had previously reported last month that investigators were looking for information related to nuclear programs in the certain mar-a-la