new york. i m jake tapper? washington, d.c. welcome to our cnn special coverage of the federal indictment of donald trump. in about an hour former president trump will land in florida, he s going to begin preparing for tomorrow s unprecedented historic court date. trump is expected to hunker down at his doral resort where he will meet with his defense team, a team that hasn t even been finalized yet just a day before he is arraigned on 37 criminal criminal counts, felony counts, over his handling or mishandling allegedly of classified documents, making him the very first ex-president in history to get hit with a federal indictment. jake n just moments we are going to hear from officials in south florida on the security precautions that they are taking ahead of that court appearance. we already of course, jake, know that all right. let s go right there and listen. they have just started. okay. good afternoon, i m francis suarez, the mayor of the city of miami. obviou
server room at trump s mar-a-lago, the same servers storing the security surveillance video from trump s resort. this as mr. trump s lawyers meet with justice department officials today. then, come on in, the water s fine. the 2024 race set to grow by three more candidates as governor nikki haley lands her sharpest blow yet on the republican front runners. plus military fighter jets going super sonic when a private plane doesn t respond while flying near the nation s capitol. investigators are trying to figure out what went so horribly wrong. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper, apologies for my voice. we start today with the law and justice lead and serious questions as to whether donald trump could face his first federal indictment ever. today, lawyers for the former president met with justice department officials here in washington for 90 minutes, a possible sign that special counsel jack smith s investigation into how trump handled classified documents and whet
it but it was ererie and it is still dangerous as the canadian wildfires continue to burn. and one-time presidential candidate, the founder of the christiane broadcasting network pat robertson has died. this is cnn news central. you are looking at live pictures outside two u.s. federal courthouses on the left there miami, florida. on the right, washington d.c. we are waiting to see if there is any movement from two federal grand juries. why? the justice department has officially notified trump s legal team that he is a target in an ongoing federal investigation. it is the clearest sign that we have seen yet that former president trump could be indicted accused of failing to turn over classified documents. the former president trump has repeatedly denied any wrong doing in the probe saying he declassified the documents while in office. in an interview on wednesday, trump said he was not told he would be indicted but the decision to tell the former president trump the for
i m erica hill. welcome to cnn newsroom. i m victor blackwell. breaking news. the january 6 committee just subpoenaed donald trump. this historic move stems from their investigation into the attack on the u.s. capitol. cnn received a copy of the panel s letter and subpoena moments ago. the committee voted unanimously to compel trump to testify under oath and provide documents about his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. if the former president fights the subpoena the court battle could outlast the committee s mandate. cnn justice correspondent evan perez and political correspondent sara murray joining us now. evan, what is the committee saying here? the subpoena is demanding the former president produce documents by november 4th. this is everything related to his effort to overturn the 2020 election results. they re asking also for him to appear for a deposition on november 14th app nd to provide testimony to the committee. that could go beyond that single day accor
upcoming elections. but first big developments in two separate investigations involving the former president. one includes spreading lies about the 2020 vote. we start with our breaking news. the former president s legal team is considering whether to allow federal agents to conduct a new search of mar-a-lago. sara murray joins us with that story. sources have told us that this is a consideration on the table to allow federal investigators to return for some kind of supervised search so you could imagine that trump s lawyers would also be present for something like that. that s because the justice department has insisted to them in private discussions as well as publically in court filings that they believe that the former president still has government documents, even after the subpoena he was given, even after the august search at mar-a-lago. so this would be a potential way to try to satisfy the government s demands. there are of course people around former president tru