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including a major meeting with secretary general of nato pushed to tomorrow after the president underwent unexpected dental surgery. and donald trump headed to miami this hour. what do expect inside the courtroom for his historic arraignment, and what to expect outside the federal courthouse with the city ramping up security and shutting down streets. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments, and we begin right there in florida, nearly 24 hours away from the president s arraignment. nbc s gabe gutierrez is in dural where donald trump will be spending the night ahead of his court appearance. what are we expecting tonight? reporter: what we re expecting today in a short time is a small group of supporters that have gathered outside of the doral golf course to greet the former president as he goes in and out of the area. many supporters say they support him completely, that this has been a political witch hunt in their view, and we just spoke ....
And katy tur pick up our special coverage, next. Our special coverage, next good day, im Andrea Mitchell in new york along with my colleague, katy tur. The prosecution is quickly wrapping up its case in the first Criminal Trial Of A Former american president. The state is gets its chance now to repair any damage done by the testimony of its star witness. Moments ago, the defense wrapped up with Michael Cohen after three days of crossexamination. It was a grueling three days. The Big Wild Card is donald trump himself. Will he live up to his promise to take the stand or put his defense team rest without presenting a single witness . Dramatically demonstrating their argument that the state has failed to meet the burden of proof. Judge merchan has set a new s ....
No other president has been indicted like this. Trumps lawyers arguing he should be immune, basically totally immune because he was president during those efforts. That is a new relatively made up claim which they lost unanimously before the respected d. C. Court of appeals. Keep that in mind. That is the recent precedent and context for today, and you may remember that was the now infamous hearing where the trump lawyer openly claimed that as President Trump could have a license to kill american opponents. That was the kind of chilling talk that many, many people across the spectrum rebuked then. That kind of talk was back today with grave questions about murder and coups and trumps lawyer saying its okay or it all depends. Lets say this president , who ordered the military to stage a coup. Orders the military or orders someone to assassinate him, is that within his official acts. I think it would depend on the circumstances. It ....
Comes to deliberations? it s possible. let me ask you a multipart question with the time line, and it s critical because we have been talking about how it intersects with the election. in the indictment, there s a box checked that the government thinks this trial should take between 21 and 60 days. when do you think the trial will start? is 21 to 60 calendar or courtroom days, and what are the chances this is over by election day? courtroom days, 21 days would be more like four weeks. the chances would have been good in the normal course of things, especially with the venue issue removed, you would think this would go to trial around next summer. again, the big wild card, aileen cannon, obviously trump will play to delay, and will she indulge him, either by bending over backwards on his favor or just not being able to be forceful enough to control the docket, and so i think the biggest risk and there are many ....
Nine months in response to russia s actions, that is almost a guaranteed path forward. but again, the big wild card here is finding out exactly what happened. and as everyone has noted, that is the primary number one focus at the moment before they figure out what they re going to be doing next. sure, understood. okay, sam kiley, jim schuette, phil mattingly, thank you very much. there was a state department briefing and much like what we heard from the department of defense or the white house that they are still looking into that, they are in communication withallies. no confirmation even from the state department about what happened across the worder there border there in poland. here stateside, kevin mccarthy has been nominated to be the next speaker of the house if the republican party gets the majority. we ll have more on that just ahead. also on capitol hill, the fbi director warned lawmakers that anti-government extremism is still a risk and that domestic violence extr ....