we ll explain his public comments following his arrest and arraignment that might be used by federal prosecutors to convince a jury of his guilt. we re joined now live from miami. evan, trump is back in his bedminster, new jersey golf club. where does the case go from here? reporter: jake, we have a lot of developments that are going to be happening very, very quickly. first of all, his co-defendant, walt nauta, we ll see him back in court before a magistrate in a couple of weeks. he, as you remember yesterday, he didn t have a lawyer who could practice here in the southern direct of florida. so he will have to hire a new lawyer and get arraigned for the pirs time again in a couple of weeks. the former president, his case can move forward. we no e that the judge who is overseeing this is going to have a lot of issues to face head on. one is the whole process of reviewing these national security documents at the center of this case. we know that the defense is going to want
menendez. this week a first for america. seeing a president of the united states arraigned on federal criminal charges. today a bronchial prediction from trump s former attorney general saying his former boss is quote toast. we are going to unpack that in just a second. trump s arraignment will go down tuesday in miami he will face a judge on 37 counts of mishandling classified documents. today, trump announced he would illiberal about his arraignment in miami from his golf club in new jersey tuesday evening. the indictment the united states versus donald de trump, and walt nada, his alleged coconspirator lays out a damning case. 31 counts for violating the espionage act, which pars willful retention of national defense information, well laws of a witch hunt spew from trump and the elected republicans who have anointed themselves as backup singers, one member of trump s cabinet, we ll, thinking otherwise. if even half of it is true, then he is toast. i mean it s a very de
felony violations of our national security laws as well as participating in a conspiracy to obstruct justice. adherence to the rule of law is the bedrock principle of the department of justice in our nation s commitment to the rule of law sits an example for the world. we have one set of laws in this country, and they ve let everyone. the 38 count indictment against trump and his personal and now codefendant walt nauta accuses the former president of 30 accounts of willful retention of national defense information, three counts of withholding or concealing documents in a federal investigation, two counts of false statements, and one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice. according to the indictment the classified documents trump stored in these boxes included information regarding defense and weapons capabilities of both the united states and foreign countries. united states nuclear programs, potential vulnerabilities of the united states and its allies to military attack
i-95, the highway remains closed in both directions to traffic, firefighters are trying to extinguish an ongoing fire that you can see there, we will bring you more on the updates as soon as we get them on the story. straight ahead, we are going to miami for a report on what to expect ahead of trump s arraignment on tuesday. plus, the twice impeached now twice indicted president, is telling his followers that the justice department is not just coming after him, it s coming after them to. i m going to talk to the person who literally wrote the book on authoritarian strongman about his dangerous line of attack, another hour of velshi begins right now. right now. good morning, i m ali velshi, in today s trump suspected to surrender himself to authorities in a miami courthouse where he will be arraigned on a 37 count indictment regarding his mishandling of government records and obstruction of justice. it will be the second time in about two months that the twice impeached former
there s an underground entrance where the secret service can drive him into the building and bring him up to the upper floors where he ll be processed by the federal marshals. he ll be placed under arrest once he comes into the building and then the processing begins. it s a standard thing. they re doing an electronic fingerprinting of him. these usually involve photographs. we expect walt nada to be booked with a mugshot. the former president is very recognizable. we don t think the marshals will take photographs of him. from there he ll go to the courthouse and a judge will read him the charges and he ll have a chance to enter his plea. the question of his release, jake, we don t expect he s going to be there s going to be any issues with him being released. the issue we expect, however, to come up is whether he can communicate with anybody who might be considered witnesses; of course, is an issue of witness tampering which has been a concern already in this case. evan,