A little bit later today, donald trump will be under arrest in a washington, d. C. , Federal Court and new reporting in the case against him in this latest indictment. Huge Security Preparations are under way because of that, and washington, d. C. , security is on alert because of it. What is happening ahead of this historic moment. I have come to believe that he knew well that he had lost the election. An extraordinary interview with former attorney general bill barr and why he believes that the information in the indictment is the tip of the iceberg against donald trump. Im john berman and with kate bolduan, this is cnn news central. All right. In a washington, d. C. Federal court later today, donald trump will be under arrest, and those are live pictures, and that is where it will all take place, and we are covering this from every angle with our reporters literally standing at each side of the building, and trump is going to face a judge and the charges and we expect he is going to
ahead of today s history-making arraignment set to begin at 2:15 p.m. eastern the case, of course, stemming on alleged hush money payment to adult film actress stormy daniels. the indictment will be unsealed later today. there are about 30 of them. and just like yesterday, from west palm beach, here to new york, every moment of trump s four-mile trip from trump tower in midtown to the courthouse in lower manhattan is almost certain to be exhaustedly documented however, as soon as trump enters that courtroom, it is going to be a whole different story overnight, the judge presiding over the case ruled that no cameras will be allowed in the courtroom during the proceedings. but cameras are not trump s attorney joe tacopina made the plans abundantly clear overnight, signaling the legal fight to come. we ll be pleading very loudly not guilty before the judge and then we ll go from there there is zero, zero chance where donald trump is pleading to anything here. you are at th
diaz-balart, and there are many people out there, including george santos, and marjorie taylor greene who per your reporting last hour showed up for a couple minutes surrounded by a lot of press. reporter: i was on camera with you guys and her suv pulled up and she was literally incased in press as they followed her into the park. i couldn t make a guess of how many folks were there. she was in the park for maybe five or ten minutes or so and then exited the park after a lot of commotion inside the park george santos was here as well and he was run out of the park we are three hours away from the beginning of the arraignment, about 2:15 eastern time, and we are expecting the former president at the united states to leave his residence, trump tower, and likely to leave around 1:00 or 1:30. he will have security with him as he makes his way down here. more barricades behind me beginning to go up as i take a look behind me, you see all of the barricades were recently put in pl
the barricades, and what level of security ramp-up do you see this looking like today? well, kate, this is really what i expect to see for us to secure an event or a situation like this. the snowplows are a go-to tool in creating what we refer to as a frozen zone. so they are used to block the vehicular traffic on to the blocks or the area around where your major threats might take place, and the protech tee is going to be. that is why they are staged on the streets in d.c. today and not because they in a position now the protect, but deployed quickly to stop the traffic in the event that the motorcade arrives later. so d.c. knows how to do this, and the mpd are very capable of planning for and executing a
manhattan, and we have seen security ramp up even more so and police installing barricades as protests for and against the former president continues, and marjorie taylor greene was here for just a couple minutes and george santos, as well, working their way through the crowd. we expect to learn what charges and how many charges trump faces in a case centering around the hush-money payment to stormy daniels, and we expect to see something we have never seen in 240 years of american history, a photo of an american president in court and under arrest thank you for being with us for our second hour of special coverage, and i am lindsey reiser alongside josé