ari, you re transformed yourself on to another floor, another studio, and we ll be back around the big set together. the magic of tv. i have been seeing you a lot and look forward to seeing you. have a great show. thank you. right now our coverage continues. today the justice department arrested, booked and arraigned donald trump. this is how trump looked today according to new court sketches we just got into your newsroom. since federal courts limit cameras, we are looking at the sketches. this is how we are seeing and learning about this very new breaking news event that spilled over the late afternoon. he s the first former president ever indicted by the former government he ran. this picture is the image that donald trump worked very hard to avoid people seeing. i m going to leave it up on the screen and give you that context, because he is a former president, he is a politician, he s a candidate for office right now, and this image and this moment is something that
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
seemingly damning information in the trump classified documents case. we ll bring it to you right now. the lead starts right now. a stunning new chapter in the classified documents saga, sensitive material moved at mar-a-lago just one day before those fbi agents showed up looking for it. and apparently, people in mar-a-lago were staging dress rehearsals for just such a moment. i ll speak with one of the reporters. plus, the biggest sentence handed down yet in the attempt to steal the 2020 election. prison time for the leader of the far-right militia the oath keepers. and another sentencing for another oath keeper is underway right now. and, parents subpoenaed. their son accused of killing four students in idaho. so why would his mom and dad need to testify before a grand jury in pennsylvania? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our law and justice lead and new signs of possible obstruction of justice in the trump mar-a-lago documents case. classified d
southern new hampshire university has changed my life. and it can change yours too. - [announcer] visit snhu.edu. florida governor ron desantis is hours from announcing his run from the white house on twitter. a source says he is going to ditch his hometown rollout plan we ll tell you how his rivals are reacting and where the gop candidates stand in a new cnn poll. meantime, as the special counsel appears to be in the final stretch of his investigation into donald trump s handling of classified documents, attorneys for the former president want to speak to the nation s top law enforcer, attorney general merrick garland. we have details on that straight ahead. still no detail, but negotiations for the white house and the house speaker kevin mccarthy, they are back on as a country inches dangerously close to a potential debt default. we are following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central. we are just a few hours awa
from an absolutely huge earthquake and almost equally large aftershock that hit today. the initial quake was centered in south central turkey. that initial jolt hit between 4:00 and 4:30 in the morning so people were home in their beds that initial quake was 7.8 and it was followed hours later by an aftershock that was 7.5 now, having such a huge quake like that followed in such quick succession but almost equally large quake, anything significantly damaged but still standing after the first shock, it came down in the aftershock in turkey alone they re saying ther more than 5,000 buildings that collapsed across across the southern border into northern rdsyria, there are aga thousands of, buildings collapd there as well between turkey and syria, we are talking about a death toll alreadyou approachin 4,000 people killed with many, many, many more thousands of peoplend injured. tonight, of course, is the twin horror of trying to rescue people trapped in the rubble and under coll