Surrounded by a group of crackpot lawyers that kept telling him what his itching ears wanted to hear. Ultimately, continued to demand that i choose him over the constitution. Good morning. Thank you for being with us, its 10 00 eastern in our nations capital. Im ana cabrera along with jose diazbalart for this special coverage of the third arraignment of donald trump. Here in washington, d. C. , a growing sense of anticipation ahead of the former president s appearance at 4 00 p. M. Eastern. Lines started building outside the courthouse overnight. Take a look at these pictures. The morning, however, the intense security continues. Barricades outside the court. Officers with long guns on the grounds. We expect the former president to travel here from bedminster, new jersey, in just a few hours. We know hell be fingerprinted and go before the judge. Garrett haake is outside that d. C. Courthouse. Dasha burns is in new jersey where trump is currently staying and also with us is legal analy
Morning, they want to try to move this trial to a friendlier venue. They suggest west virginia. We have got another jampacked hour of special coverage with reporters in the field providing the latest updates and the best legal and political minds we could find. And joining us this morning, nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian outside the courthouse. Nbc news correspondent garrett haake, who covers the Trump Campaign. Catherine christian, a former manhattan district attorney. She is also an msnbc legal analyst. And Ann Curb Kadori for new york magazine. Do we expect to hear from trump at all today, either before or after his arraignment . Well, we have been hearing from him already on social media, blasting this case as Election Interference as hes done so many times before, arguing the whole endeavor is an effort by joe biden and the biden doj to have him tied down in legal battles in 2024. Instead of focusing on the campaign. Hell also be traveling here today w
a few hours. we know he ll be fingerprinted and go before the judge. garrett haake is outside that d.c. courthouse. dasha burns is in new jersey where trump is currently staying and also with us is legal analyst dave aronberg, and here with us in d.c. is shan wu, a former federal prosecutor. garrett, what s happening on the ground? walk us through what we can expect at 4:00 p.m. eastern today when trump is arraigned. reporter: we will see much of the former president s journey to and from d.c. he s traveling with reporters and the campaign has learned it s pretty good for their online fund-raising when people are watching what s going on with his arraignments. there s nearly $4 million in the first one. we ll see quite a bit of the process surrounding his arrival and departure to the courthouse. once he s inside, we ll be privy to frustratingly little in this courthouse. cameras are not allowed inside federal court. we expect the former president
was legit. there s a process. you go to the courts, you request recounts and audits. he did those things. after he lost in courts in the audits, in the recounts, he then assembled a mob. he worked on this fake electors scheme, according to the indictment, and he tried to pressure local government and doj officials to stop the counting of the votes. all that stuff is illegal, regardless of trump s state of mind. all right, dave aronberg and shan wu, always great to have your great legal mind with us to make sense of what s happening and where this case could go. appreciate it. we re back in just 60 seconds. when we come back, reaction to this historic indictment from two lawmakers who were in the house chambers as rioters stormed the capitol on january 6th. plus, we ll talk with a former january 6th committee official. how this indictment expands on the groundwork they did. and later, after three indictments, should we expect gop voters or any of trump s supporters to change the
this process has to play out. there has to be accountability. does a conviction have to happen for there to be accountability? that s what the evidence needs to show. in the united states, we don t start this process with a predetermined outcome. that s not how the legal process starts. we start the process, we apply the facts and evidence to the law. that s what will happen. that s what needs to happen for us to repair and move forward and to prevent it from happening again. we re not immune. to answer your question, this can happen anywhere. the lesson of january 6th is that we are not immune to any of this. that we re vulnerable to extremism, that our democracy is only as strong as the willingness of americans and individuals to stand up and to fight for it. congressman kildee, thinking about what the congressman was saying, yesterday right on the hill, there was buzz with a new threat of potential active shooter near the senate office buildings, u.s. capitol police didn t fin