from abc world headquarters in new york, this is world news tonight with david muir good evening it s great to start another week with all of you at home. we begin tonight with former president trump now in south florida at this hour set to answer to federal criminal charges at the federal courthouse in miami tomorrow. 37 counts. he traveled from bedminster, new jersey, to miami today. the indictment alleges, among the classified documents, were documents on the u.s. nuclear program, u.s. have youner ablths to attack, how the u.s. would respond t indictment says trump suggested at one point his attorney hide or destroy the documents. trump insists he did nothing wrong. he is still trying to recruit new lawyers to his team tonight after two resigned amid the indictment. the former president has asked his supporters to protest. tonight miami s mayor says they are prepared. and this evening, how this will play out tomorrow. the former president s mug shot, the fingerprints and tonight
it says the defendant in the county of new york and elsewhere on or about february 14 .7 2017 with intent to defraud and intent to commit other crime and aid and conceal the commission there of madee and caused a false entry in the business es records of an enterprise. to wit, an invoice from michael fromn. an invoice from michael now, that s where it gets a little different. can you explain to me whatcan yo the intent to defraud intent to commit another crime? concel what is that other crime and to aid and conceal the commission thereof?reof. do you know what the do you know what the that they re talking about here? well, you know, normally when the indictment clears that up for you, when you get that rs iyou, when you get that here it up for you here. it didn t.t it doesn t. it simply says that it ssiness r a false business record , s yoas you cited properly with t indictment reads for the attempt or intent to defraud or aid and abet the commission of a crime orr
earliest will see donald trump have to come to court may not be until next week, we do, nowhere, and that the grand jury s meeting today. we ll expect they ll be back later this week. it indictment could come. and will be filed under seal. to new york for him to be brought and enfinger brenda. and from the first appearance before a judge would not comment until at least next week and that s partly because of the careful choreography that s being orchestrated. trying to keep the former president say. as he comes to new york. because, obviously you can see from the preparations there that you just showed pictures of new york. there s concern about some of the people might be brought to new york. who might act upon his call for protests. and of course, it may bring people who are gonna be counter protesting his appearance there in new york. there s a lot of activity a that the secret service, new york police department, are all very
it s almost like you kind of have to prop them, let the marinate a little bit, then be in the american public, before they actually see it indictment from doj. to that point, who do you see as the most likely candidates to get a criminal referral? there s been some reporting out there, we see mark meadows s name, rudy giuliani, for example, donald trump as well. do you think there s any potential surprise names that could be on that referral list? what we already know from david carter, a federal judge in california, that from his perspective, john eastman, and donald trump, together likely committed crimes. i would add him to the list. of course he pled the fifth many times, as dared the other member of the department of justice that would likely be identified in the indictments who tried to get the, to inject himself into the hierarchy, so that doj could be used as a
bringing this back to reality. judge cannon issued her ruling back in september, creating this whole new area of president with respect to a pre indictment special master. just for donald trump. this was the 11th circuit with to a trump appointed judges, saying, no. enough of that is enough of this game. it s all a sideshow. there never was jurisdiction in the first place. authority for judge cannon to create the special master. what is unclear at this point is to what extent this changes the timeframe for the justice department going forward. they have enough, they re bringing people before the grand jury? are they preparing to indict or they re going to decide they don t have what they want in order to bring this kind of precedent it indictment? that bridge after wait till after the holidays, it s a question of, how much did this slow them down in the process? the tear point as well, the idea of what congress has to accomplish in the time that this lame duck session is going on. i