appear before a judge, a magistrate judge, to be formally charged for the third time in less than four months, as chris said, and msnbc news has learned three of the officers injured in january 6th will be trying to attend the hearing, although just a handful of members of the public are going to be allowed inside, and just 11 members are reserved for the press. you can see the camera shaking because we re all moving in real time here, trying to give you as much access to see what s happening, but even before he appears in court, trump has been fighting these charges on social media. he s been raising money off of it, his fund-raising committee has fired off at least eight solicitations for donations since this indictment was handed up on tuesday. he also posted a message to his supporters saying it s a great honor to be arrested because i m being arrested for you. now, technically, he s not going to be arrested. he s going to go in and surrender to authorities, but let s d
florida. now a magistrate judge would have to him to enter his plea at its root what the arraignment is it something fundamental to the rule of law and our constitutional system. you are given a right to hear the nature of the charges against you. the other thing that happens if they decide the conditions of your release. trump is not expected to be put in jail ahead of this trial, but there will be discussion of the terms under which he is released on his own recognizance. that happens in his federal indictment in florida and we expect that will happen again today. that part of the process is somewhat unpredictable. you never know exactly what the judge will want to talk about. we will know about it as soon as we are allowed to. as we said, cameras are not allowed. we will have no live feed as it happens. nbc is lucky enough that our reporter is one of the few reporters who have been given a seat in the actual courtroom. we will talk with garrett once it is over. we will als
Former president s motorcade arrived at the dc federal courthouse. he left his golf club in bedminster, new jersey, and went to the international airport and then motorcade it to the dc federal courthouse. there are no cameras allowed inside of the courthouse, true of all federal courts. we know from our reporters inside the trunk as well as special counsel jack smith and his team are now inside of the courtroom. we know that before he entered the courtroom logistically he was expected to be escorted by federal marshals to the basement. we expect he had his prints taken digitally. they do a digital scan up fingerprints. this is the second time in two months that he has been arrested and fingerprinted. there is not expected to be a mug shot taken just as there was no mug shot taken at his last federal arraignment in