Federal criminal defendant. the former president is set to appear in a miami courtroom at 3:00 eastern time to be arraigned on a 37-count federal criminal indictment for his alleged mishandling of classified documents after leaving the white house. this makes him the first ever former president to be charged with a federal crime. a source tells nbc news trump flew from new jersey to south florida yesterday with attorney todd blanche who will represent him at today s hearing. but it is not clear who else might also represent trump at the hearing if anyone. blanch is a new york-based lawyer, typically a local attorney who is admitted to practice in the southern district of florida, would have to be present in the court in order for the arraignment to take place. a source tells nbc news judges are usually open to allowing a lawyer who is not admitted in the district to appear on behalf of the defendant. magistrate judge jonathan
Problems. but there may be some who actually do start believing. let s set the scene for what s going to be happening today. former president donald trump is just hours away from his first scheduled court appearance as a federal criminal defendant, the former president is set to appear in a miami courtroom at 3:00 p.m. eastern time to be arraigned on a 37-count federal criminal indictment for his alleged mishandling of classified documents after leaving the white house. this makes him the first-ever former president to be charged with a federal crime. a source tells nbc news trump flew to miami yesterday with attorney todd blanch who will represent him at today s hearing, but it s not clear who else might also represent trump at the hearing, if anyone at all. blanch is a new york-based lawyer, typically a local attorney who is admitted to practice in the southern
It s someone who has worked with him in the past. reporter: yeah, that s right. so the solution to that appears to be bringing back chris kise who is a former solicitor general in the state of florida who is part of the broader trump legal orbit for some time but was never directly attached to this particular case. he s been kind of in the floating pantheon of trump lawyers. he was back on this case and, you know, i won t bore anyone with the latin terms for any of this, in part because i m not sure i can pronounce him correctly but he basically vouches for blanch who was also brought in late in the game, a former federal prosecutor himself, brought in late in the game in the new york case to be one of mr. trump s defense attorneys on this case, now brought in late in the game on this case. it was blanche who did most of the talking, both attesting that they are permanent attorneys on the case, intend to be attorneys on the case through trial and appeal if necessary. it does appear t
Abruptly resigned this morning. who do we think is going to represent donald trump in court? yes. i mean, this is a surprise move to the attorneys that had led him through this investigation, resigned this morning. now trump has said that he has hired a new york former prosecutor by the name of todd blanche. he also retained blanch to represent him in the case related to the hush money payments. he s a former prosecutor. he knows his ways in and around these court issues and these allegations. he is someone that trump has brought on, and he s expected to be here in court on tuesday. trump is also exploring hiring another attorney, someone who is based in florida, to help work on this case. and he is talking to several attorneys, sources tell our colleagues, and working to potentially have someone else in place by tuesday. jake? all right, kara ski mel, thanks so much. joining us now is chris
Out and make a statement. not before unsealing, but as soon as this indictment is unsealed they have to ethically you can t disparage the defendant but you have to educate the public. so as mr. trump and his allies are out there giving misinformation, it s incumbent upon the special counsel and doj to correct the factual record. we just got some breaking news that the former president facing indictment, president trump, just shook up his legal team. in fact, trusty, jim trusty who has been on air on multiple networks responding to questions since this indictment is out and blanch todd blanche from new york is in. what s your reaction to that? do you know these men? i do. so i worked with jim trusty at the department of justice, seasoned former federal prosecutor. you know, i could imagine that this happens quite often when a