Welcome to cnn news central. 24 hours from now we expect to see donald trump on his way to Federal Court here in washington scheduled to make his First Court Appearance after term prosecutors charged him with four separate counts in a sweeping indictment. Special counsel alleges trump was central in a plot to overturn the 2020 election. The indictment also says he had help coconspirators. It repeatedly references six coconspirators. Cnn has been able to identify five of those six. They are former Trump Lawyers rudy giuliani, john eastman and sidney powell, former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark and protrump lawyer kenneth chesebro. I want to go to zach cohen. Tell us what we should expect to see tomorrow and included in that what kind of security should we expect to see . Yeah, the expectation right now is that donald trump will be in d. C. In person and have to travel to the courthouse for this appearance, and, look, federal agencies and local Law Enforcement have been prepa
brianna, the first case at the moment is alvin bragg s case for 2016 election interference. people refer to it as a hush money case but it s really a case for fabricating documents over 30 counts of fabricating documents to cover up hush money payments that could have cost donald trump the 2016 election after access hollywood. that s an election interference too. a grateway drug for what smith is prosecuting. alvin bragg said i have a march 2024 trial date. that s ahead of judge cannon and says if the interests of justice require, i m willing to give that up, so i think jack smith is going to take him up on it. i think judge tanya chechkin as
here that because it s in the election cycle that will weaken the case and add to at least the argument, the accusation that this is political? well, obviously it isn t political. the special counsel is independent from the attorney general, and the president, president biden has made clear he is hands off. he is not political. in fact, he has prosecuted both democrats and republicans in past. i think this will just in the regular course of business be tried. i would hope that the trial is sooner rather than later, justice delayed is justice denied but that s going to be up to the judge. this, you know, application of the law and justice can t be postponed simply because some