our calendars. yes ought to use a pencil, not a pen. it s monday, august 14th, it s a little less than two months from right now, and that is the day that judge aileen cannon has set for the trial of donald j. trump in the case having to do with classified documents, the legally and dangerously illegally and dangerously kept by him at a mar-a-lago. relatively speaking, that s soon, perhaps surprising given judge cannon s history of rulings considering to be favor to believe the disgraced ex-president who apointed her. but things get murky. the date august 14th is subject to delay, maybe delay after delay. in addition to what one would normally expect, illegal tactics, on one side to drag things out, there is another complicating factor, and that is complexities having to do with the classified material itself and something called the classified information procedures act. as we said, we re using pencils at this point, not pens. our experts will explain all of it in greater
concealing the documents. trump team will say we don t know what they are going to say, but they clearly are making the case about a two-tiered system of justice. i think it s fascinating to watch the gop candidates. remember, this is happening in miami. obviously the governor of florida is running against desantis, his comments have been to suggest there are two tiers of justice and the biden administration is slow and the hillary clinton investigation went nowhere, despite destroying 33,000 emails and destroying cell phones and the like. and talking about that is something that i think each of these candidates has hung on to. but there has been a bit of an evolution and some of them, like nikki haley, like former vice president pence who obviously worked for former president trump in that white house have said those things, the two tier system, that talking point but then said but these charges as written are serious. then you have others like asa hutchinson, former gover
and fingerprinted a federal court appearance captured by a sketch artist. you re seeing one such example. these moments you re looking at here are that which donald trump has blatantly tried to overshadow with this is own series of events and speeches and recent pr programming. well, we can all see how this case is different right now. the early reporting is focused on how it will follow a traditional trajectory. the new york times puts it that way. next up we have a date for trump codefendant walt nauta to enter his plea, june 27th. and then traditionally, the status conference hearings that you would see over a course of couple months, the government supplying evidence to the defense. and that material can then inform the defense lawyers strategies. trump s lawyers may try a kind of more serious investigation of this odd defense that trump has been publicly mounted that the de the classified documents he says were secretly or magically declassified before he left offic
and i m abby phillip here in washington. our special coverage of the federal indictment of donald trump continues. this case, the united states of america versus donald j. trump, along with walt nauta, hs bead man. a former president of the united states a defendant in a federal case. if convicted, he could go to prison. the indictment s 49 pages accuse him of breaking seven federal laws, including willful retention of national defense information, withholding or concealing documents in a federal investigation, false statements, and conspiracy to ob instruct justice. he is facing 37 separate charges including one for each classified document that he s accused of keeping illegally. documents allegedly stashed in a bathroom, a shower, a ballroom, bedroom. the former president allegedly showing some of them to people and also trying to conceal them from investigators. i want to begin with cnn s senior legal affairs correspondent, paula reid, who s been tracking all of th
of the first federal arraignment of a former u.s. president in the history of this nation. security is tight as donald trump is about to respond to the most serious criminal charges, twice impeached and twice indicted former commander in chief has faced. trump is at his golf club outside miami, expected to heed to the courthouse soon. this is cnn s special coverage of the arrest and arraignment of donald trump. i m anderson cooper. i m jake tapper. the former president will be placed under arrest. he will likely be fingerprinted electronically and then he is expected to plead not guilty to the unprecedented 37-count indictment. trump is accused of willfully mishandling highly classified documents brought to his mar-a-lago resort after he left office and accused of allegedly conspiring to try to hide these documents, stashing boxes in unsecured locations, including a ballroom and a bathroom. trum aide walt nauta is also charged in the indictment and expected to appear alongs