it looks like the sun is out once again. i imagine the heat is back up as well. how are folks handling things there? the heat is coming back. the best description for anyone that has been to miami, it s like a sama sauna. it s the same feeling you have in a sauna especially now with the rain. in miami, we normally have hot temperatures in the summer. but not as hot as what we ve experienced this past month. temperatures in the 90s, with a heat index at 109 degrees at some point this week. that is too hot for people in a city that are usually hanging out outside. we are in bayside in downtown miami. this is a park that is often full of tourists that come, walk around the bay. we have a lot of restaurants, we have a shopping mall with a lot of businesses that have all of their merchandise outside. they ve been practically empty the last few days during the day. fortunately today, we did have the storms come through miami. it is cool down quite a bit. we are still experiencing this heat
so like calling a spade a spade, and they re taking off the table the possibility that there will be motions to say we want this evidence, we want this evidence, and you re withholding this. here it is, kitchen sink, you ve got everything. let s go to trial. and what do you make of the conversation now around where this trial is going to take place, in the miami area, it s more of a conservative population in general. is that concerning if you re a prosecutor? i don t think so. i prosecuted in miami for several years, and we never had problems getting convictions in miami, and i think fort pierce where judge cannon sits is a conservative political base, but it s also a law and order sort of working class staten island-like jurisdiction, and those jurors understand the rule of law. they understand jury instructions, and so i think it s really much ado about nothing. if they have a case that they can prove to a jury, a fort pierce jury, a broward county jury, a miami jury will all co
he will have his hands full because it looks like he s also been taking the lead role in the new york city case as well. what is the i can see what s going on behind you, but there s nothing like being on the ground, garrett. tell me what it s like walking around the area behind your live shot and around the broader miami area today. reporter: well, nicolle, i got here late saturday night and between saturday night and this morning i don t think i saw a single person who i could describe even remotely as a protests. i think i saw two people in trump hats yesterday walking around the courthouse. i had to go into the courthouse at 8:30 this morning and surrender my phones, no electronics basically sitting inside the courthouse with a paper newspaper and a window to kind of pass the time until this hearing ended. when i came back outside there are hundreds of people in my view even now surrounding the courthouse, they ve been blocking the streets behind me, i ran over here from the
cutting through these folks and was able to see out of the corner of my eye people in the street blocking traffic as donald trump s motorcade was leaving out the back entrance here. so kind of a wild scene. nothing that i would describe as an organized protest and nothing that i ve seen that s looked violent or out of control, but just a lot of folks down here in a relatively small space. i was at a press conference with the miami pd yesterday and they kind of made it clear there was no organized first amendment area, no organized area for pro-trump demonstrators or anti trump demonstrators. they were going to kind of let folks work in this space and that s largely what s happened. they ve used bicycle officers and things of that nature, sort of standard big city crowd control to clear things when they ve gotten out of hand but it s been thick with people outside the courthouse in at least two out of the three sides that i ve seen coming outside after being in the courthouse for most o
it was, you know, i think functionally his room after all for the duration of that hearing today. that is interesting. i imagine that i want to explain the picture on our screen. trump has gone to really a famous place all republican candidates actually probably democratic candidates go as well. it s versailles, it s in little havana in the miami area. he s still a candidate for president. that s the picture over your brilliant words, we don t need to see that anymore, we know where he is. garrett, what is the if at all any discussion about the severity of what he s charged with from anyone that you ran into outside of the courthouse or is it this sort of two worlds, sliding doors, you go inside and it s all about the substance of this very serious important case and the sliding doors moment is when you step outside and the political circus-like environment is what you witness?