in a defamation suit brought by two georgia election workers. political advisers saying giuliani was wrongly accused in the matter. up next, though, a civil trial that could see trump s former personal attorney held financially liable. joining me now from fulton county is blayne alexander. what more can you tell us about the upcoming arraignments and what this separate motion means for the trial as trump s attorneys, they re seeking to completely sever his case from the other codefendants. well, alex, let s start with the arraignments. we know that september 6th, next wednesday at 9:30 a.m., the former president will not be appearing before a fulton county judge. he s waived that arraignment appearance as is his right, and he s entered a not guilty plea, so that certainly answers a lot of questions we had as to whether or not we would see the same kind of extraordinary show of him coming down to georgia, going instead inside a courthouse, and facing a judge we will not see.
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
digits roast the deep south. we ll tell you what s next from this wild weather coming up. and a new poll shows that half of all democratic voters don t want president biden to be the nominee for 2024. we ll explain why that s actually good news for the president. but we start in washington, d.c., where a new chapter in american political history is waiting to be written if and when special council jack smith decides to make his move. we know the grand jury investigating former president trump s role in trying to overturn the 2020 election arrived at the d.c. courthouse several hours ago. and if past is prologue, a decision on an indictment could come soon. in the classified documents investigation, trump was charged three days after his attorneys held a final meeting with jack smith. that same kind of meeting in this case was five days ago if that provides us any clues. we want to bring in nbc s garrett haake following this from washington. ryan reilly is outside the u.s.
indictment. this one handed up this week charges trump with four counts related to subverting the result of the 2020 election. paula reid has more. reporter: former president trump is expected to come here to washington to appear in person for this hearing which is expected to be both an initial appearance and also an arraignment. it is unclear if we ll see him arrive because this federal courthouse, it is designed to deal with people who have security details and vips. so it would be easy for him to pull into the underground garage and we won t get to see him at all. but once he is inside the federal courthouse where of course there are no cameras, he is effectively under arrest and it is expected that he will be processed like any other defendant but we don t expect a mug shot because those are used to identify suspects if they go on the lam. but this will be a quick procedural hearing. it will be in front of a magistrate judge. this is expected that he will hear the char
i m max foster. bianca is off today. but just ahead someone who engaged in that kind of bullying, a process that is fundamental to our system and to our self government, shouldn t be anywhere near the oval office. sadly the president was surrounded by a group of crack pot lawyers that kept telling him what his itching ears wanted to hear. i strongly disagree with fitch s decision and i believe that it is entirely unwarranted. hate has no place in our community. even though nothing will bring my dad back, i feel like a weight has been lifted and i can breathe a sigh of relief. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with maxes s fos and bianca nobilo. it is 4:00 a.m. in washington where later today donald trump is set to appear in a federal courthouse not far from the u.s. skap where capitol where he will be arraigned on criminal charges in his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. his appearance is scheduled for 4:00 p.m. after a four count indictment. secur