explaining no one is above the law, even a former president. our nation s commitment to the rule of law sets an example for the world. we have one set of laws in this country and they apply to everyone. and, jake, the special counsel also making the point today that violations of u.s. laws on classified documents put the country at risk. that s right, anderson. i want to bring in cnn s paula reid. walk us through the most damning allegations in the indictment in your view. this indictment tells a story of what investigators have learned over the past year and a half. they lay out how the former president allegedly willfully retained over 300 classified documents allegedly storing them around his mar-a-lago resort everywhere from a bathroom to a bedroom to a ballroom for over two months, that ballroom was activity hosting events touring this time. they also reveal how sensitive secrets meant over for a handful of our closest allies were splayed out in a storage room. t
at that point the secret service steps back because once he is arrested he s property of the fbi. this is where the logistical stuff gets kind of fuzzy because normally he would go to the fbi office in miami which is pretty far away from the federal courthouse and they would book him and fingerprint him and take his mug shots and then bring him to the courthouse. in this case what they re talking about today is is that going to be the way that they do it, the regular way, or are they going to find a way to do a booking process at the courthouse so that they can get him into a conference room and directly to the courtroom for the arraignment? all of this is the moving parts that have to go between secret service, fbi, the court, the united states marshals. once he s in the court and in front of the judge, the fbi steps back and either the court let s him go, which is likely, or he becomes the property of the u.s. marshal and under their control, highly unlikely since it s anticipated he