more for no former president has ever surrendered to authorities or been fingerprinted, photographed and arraigned soon. donald trump will be here in washington, d c. shockwaves are spreading from that manhattan grand juries surprise decision to indict the former president in connection with hush money payments to porn star and director stormy daniels here in new york, where the tremors began and from which donald trump first sprang to national attention nearly 50 years ago, authorities are preparing for his arrival. and what could potentially occur because of it. as you look at live pictures of trump tower right now, consider that the man who came down the escalator there almost eight years ago has already incited an attack on congress. and as you look at the courthouse, where he is expected to be arraigned considered, he s already verbally attacked. the district attorney alvin bragg. many times , including again tonight. consider also anderson that in addition to railing ag
that they ve been restricted from using, in their ongoing criminal probe into these classified documents, that were seized from mar-a-lago last month. the appeals court is saying here, they are really agreeing with the justice department, saying that yes, in fact, national security could be harmed if the justice department can t continue its probe here. they set the doj has argued that the criminal investigation, and then national security investment is inextricably linked. the appeals court saying, yes, in fact, if we don t let the doj continue to use these classified documents, there will be real and significant harm on the united states and the public. notably, in this opinion as well, anderson, the 11th circuit is really faulting trump s lawyers, for not better explaining what seems to be their argument, the trump may be declassified [inaudible] his lawyers, his allies, but they ve not offered any proof in court filings or in-person. so the 11 circuit tonight criticizin
tawdry. what was certainly something that caught the attention not only of donald trump but some of his allies, and in fact, right after that, jake, it was matt gates, one of donald trump s most vociferous supporters from florida congressman who went on news max and gave an interview and basically said he didn t think ron desantis was being strong enough and suggested that he should get behind this notion of not having donald trump extradited out of florida to new york. now we saw ron desantis seems to be taking his cue. all right, david chalian. thanks so much. back with our panel, joining us cnn political analyst and senior political correspondent for the new york times maggie haberman, political commentator david urban, who once served as campaign adviser, the former president van jones, cnn political commentator, former special adviser to president obama. maggie haberman . you just joined us historic night. it certainly is and busy one. look there s so much that we don t know and i
defense witness in the grand jury in new york that you have the right to do that. um there was no evidence that they ever offered as to why they believed that just things that people were hearing and as i said, trump likes to create headlines that he thinks influence events that obviously did not happen here. and if anything, frankly, all the stories yesterday about how the grand jury was going to be off for a month, probably alleviated a pressure valve for bragg. it s sort of it took the heat down a little bit, i wouldn t bring in david urban and van jones, david i mean, this is a remarkable historic night. i m wondering what your thoughts are. and what happens now? yes. so you know, anderson, i was just thinking back. 20 years ago when i was chief of staff in the united states senate and they had the impeachment of bill clinton. and bill clinton was impeached and was acquitted similar to president trump and then remained in office and they re you know ken starr went away, and special
possibility that they will try to appeal to a higher court, and see how far this goes. you know, this hasn t been a great legal week for them, i know there s some people around the former president yesterday were insisting that the special master hearing yesterday was not that bad, and at the special master did not sound that skeptical, he did some very skeptical. what it means in terms of what he s gonna do remains to be seen. but this decision by the circuit, which is filled with a lot of trump appointees, i think it s just another setback. however, i will just stress, trump s desire is always to drag these things out, and dragging it out is not necessarily something is gonna be upset about. david, the 11th circuit also wrote that the former president suggested he declassify these documents but directly stated that witness didn t provide any evidence that we had this disclose these documents. what do you think about the fact that the former