Violence. Were erasing generations of traumatized americans. That concerns me as a faith leader. Good morning. Top of the hour. So glad youre with us here on cnn this morning. Another historic day, a really important day for our democracy in court today. Not just about an arraignment its much bigger than that. Down in washington. Just hours from now, former President Donald Trump set to appear in a courtroom in washington, d. C. On charges he tried to overturn the 2020 election and hold on to power. Night. Ty barriers went upover secret service has done walkthrough of the d. C. Courthouse. Trump is expected to plead not guilty to four counts including conspiracy to defraud the United States. His fingerprints will be taken digitally. A preview of trumps lawyers will argue, among those his claims of Election Fraud are protected by the first amendments free speech. He truly believed that the debunked fraud claims. Our Kaitlin Collins spoke with bill barr with these m potential legal avenu
to him but to the government. his body man and alleged co-conspirator walt nauta appeared alongside him and also pleaded not guilty. all of it taking place in a city that has been bracing for this unprecedented day, this unprecedented event and as always is the case with donald trump bracing for the potential of violence. officials in atlanta are reportedly keeping a close eye on the security steps taken in miami given the possibility that fulton county district attorney may become the third prosecutor to bring charges against the ex-president. as for the ex-president himself, he has not spoken today, but on his social media site truth social he s been lashing out at the justice department, airing his usual grievances about the justice department and about what he calls a witch-hunt. his heated rhetoric against special counsel jack smith and attorney general merrick garland and the justice department will have no bearing on the legal process, however, judge jonathan goodman r
donald trump will arrive here later this afternoon. he ll enter the federal courthouse, he ll be placed under arrest. we expect his actual appearance in court to be pretty brief, we ve seen this a couple of times before he ll be advised of his rights, of the charges against him. he may have an opportunity to enter the a plea today. we expect him to plead not guilty. but we ll be looking to see if donald trump says anything in the court. we ll be looking whether special counsel jack smith attends in person as he did in miami when donald trump was charged in the classified documents case, again a lot of this we re not going to see in realtime, cameras aren t allowed in the federal court. we ll be relying on our reporters in the courtroom and these sketches to get the scene what it s like for donald trump again to be in there for his
sitting there because donald trump solicited another person and who actually agreed. he s enlisted attorneys to go along. tried to get corcoran. yeah. in terms of aswhaegs he did, it s not like he just did it on his own and said you know what? i ll bear the consequences for what i did. it reminds me very much of what s in the indictment where he says to corcoran, why can t you just get rid of these documents and then i won t have a problem. so that s why walt nauta is there. it s just so deplorable when you think about the sort of power relationship. absolutely. and what he is doing with it. it s gross. and i actually wanted to ask you this question. i think the fact that their lawyers are talking to each other, they re sitting there together. i don t know if nauta did his plea today, but he was booked. he got a mug shot. donald trump was a former president, is now just a citizen like you and me. if you and i dud it, we d get a mug shot. the fact that donald trump gets to esc
lea today. here we go. actress carey fisher getting a star on the hollywood walk of fame on may four, known as star wars day. she died of a heart attack in 2016. her star, this is cool, cool story here. her star will be across the street from the one that honors her mom, debbie reynolds. may the fourth dana: i ve never seen those stars, have you? bill: yes, i have. dana: do you have one? do you want one? bill: when hell freezes over. dana: maybe we can get one on the sidewalk here for you. watch this. it s time to let paul come home. in the meantime, we will not stop. dana: the u.s. fighting to bring paul whalen home from russia. russia sentenced him to 16