prominent defense attorney who turned them down. none of the people we believe they ve been interviewing were in the courtroom today. it appears in they re attempting to add other florida-based lawyers, so far that hasn t happened. the lawyers we saw in there are ones that have been with him for some time. this is ari. we all thank you for trying to make soup of this water because you had limited access. you were also closer to this than most people in america so we appreciate that. from the overflow room you were in as well as before and after you re down there, this is a person in donald trump who has previously post and talked about summoning a type of resistance or revolution we covered earlier. what are you seeing having gone in, come out and being outside now in this area and that wider aspect of this and in any way
he said we most certainly enter a plea of not guilty when asked by the magistrate judge how he pleads. it was a very pro forma, very bare bones proceeding in there. lasting around five minutes. i left after mr. trump s plea was entered so i didn t hear walt nauta. the government was represented by david harbach, jay bratt, who s been working on this case, and julie edelstein. mr. trump is represented by one of his lawyers from new york. and he said he ll be doing this permanently. hooegs going to represent donald trump in this case. and also chris keys, a florida lawyer who has been sort of on again off again. the magistrate judge welcomed everyone to the southern district of florida.
mr. trump sat stone faced. wearing a blue suit and red tie at the table with his lawyers and co-defendant. they waived the formal reading of the indictment so it was a really pro forma, bare bones affair. andrew, you ve been nodding when at least the description of who the prosecutors were. give us a quick thumbnail on those. that s excite an experienced team. julie, the national security person, has a lot of experience with these types of cases is adept at the law. jay bratt, somebody we ve heard about for some time. he famously was at mar-a-lago with fbi agents when a lot of the issues in the case with respect to what he could look at and not. what are we expecting next? is the judge going schedule
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