Good morning, everyone. Its wednesday, august 2nd. A historic morning in u. S. Former President Trump is due in Court Tomorrow after a federal grand jury indicted him on four counts. This morning, city and federal Law Enforcement agencies are gearing up for that appearance. Also new this morning, a sense of trumps defense. His attorney tells cnn his clint is protected fully by the First Amendment. He was acting on the advice of counsel. We just heard from rudy ju giuliani. New details about the judge who will preside over this case. The judge has been randomly assigned. Hes overseen january 6ths defendants. The form e President Trumps 2024 rivals are weighing in on the charges. Their reactions ranging from condemning trump to condemning the Justice Department. Georgia, Fulton County sheriff said trump wont receive special treatment. Quote, it doesnt matter your status, well have mug shots ready for you, all of that this hour of cnn this morning starts right now. Third indictment. Fourt
January 6th, and the capital plaza, where rioters stormed the barricade to stop the peaceful transition of power. The court room that trump was in todays the very same room where numerous january 6th cases have been heard. The judge overseeing trumps arraignment has also overseen the cases of people including dominick box, a Qanon Activist Who Livestreamed the storming of the capital and jarred wise, a former fbi agent whos charged with assaulting a Police Officer on january 6th. So this was all very much a Trip Down Memory Lane for mr. Trump. Now that were no Courtroom Cameras today. But thanks to Courtroom Sketch bill hennessy, we know what it looked like when a former president of the United States appear in court to be formally and federally charged for trying to subvert american democracy. It was more than 110 people in the courtroom to hear this arraignment, including several of the federal judges who have been presiding over other january 6th cases. Judges who showed up today in
watched as donald trump in his 18 codefendants turned up one by one at the jail in fulton county, georgia. this is attorney fani willis said repeatedly that no one is above the law. the fulton county sheriff also stated that trump and his codefendants would be treated like anyone else, saying, quote, we are following our normal practices and so it doesn t matter your status. they were booked, fingerprinted, had mugshot taken, all but one of the defendants was granted bail. trump s bail was at $200, 000, rudy giuliani is $150, 000, john eastman, kenneth chesebro, sydney powell, jen ellis, all had to post $100, 000, and they did. they are all paid out on bail and free to live their lives until their court dates, presumed innocent until unless proven guilty by a jury of their peers. trump s team have been dedicated to fund raising kicks and listening from trump s following including this giuliani benefit dinner and
defendant donald trump surrendered to georgia authorities was the most high-profile booking that georgia s ever seen, maybe most in american history. but the authorities do insist that no matter how high-profile, everyone s treated the same. unless someone tells me differently, we are we are following our normal practices. and so it doesn t matter your status. we have mug shots ready for you. ready for you. now, when the sheriff said that, no other case had required this defendant s mug shot. so no one knew what would happen. it did prove too as we all know today. but let s be clear. some practices that are uniform in georgia and the federal case are enduring, but this legal process also is drawing much needed scrutiny on other areas that are not uniform or fair. take the cash bond system, which we just casually referred to. we mentioned the numbers. it quite brazenly makes money a condition of freedom, and that discriminates against the majority of americans who can t
of supremely famous people. we ve pulled this for you today as a very factual reminder. you see some of them here i ll come back to this. law enforcement long said that choice reflects a deeper point, even making the famous who are obviously identitifiable reflects point that no one is above the law as these rico defendants may be learns or are reminded of tonight. it s a point the atlanta sheriff reiterated. we are following our normal practices. and so doesn t matter the status, we ll we got mugshots ready for you. ready for you, a reference there to defendant trump who, in his other cases, has not been book with a mug shot. so if the sheriff is right, and we ll only know when it happens tomorrow if it happens, but if they take defendant trump s mug shot like his codefendants, that would be another first for this former president defendant. but it is not the first time we