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
focus the fund-raising aspect of that event. donald trump and his team are viewing this indictment largely through the lens of his re-election campaign and they think that his charges or these charges at least in the short term will have a political boost, but also a fund-raising boost for his re-lex campaign, a after donald trump left his team fired off a campaign trail, i m writing you this e-mail as i leave the courthouse as an innocent man by the corrupt biden donald trump is hoping to hold on to these wealthy donors that he had during his 2016 campaign, but some sources are telling my colleague, kristen holmes and i that there are some concerns that some of these wealthy donors could defect and we have seen some of these defections already from some of these donors and the worry is that if these indictments continue to mount they could see more of that, but i should also point out that donald trump s team maintains that he still get his best fund-raising from the sma
with threats of violence outside of the courthouse is rising, and the heated rhetoric is raising alarm among the fbi agents. john? and now, signs of success leading to a perhaps new unusual admission from vladimir putin. this is cnn news central. this hour, a defiant donald trump is expected to depart his golf club in bedminster, new jersey to travel to miami to be the first president to be arraigned in miami. he is going to appear in this courthouse behind me, tomorrow, and in less than two months placed under arrest, and this time for 37 charges related to handling of unclassified documents. and trump is stirring up the base calling the supporters to rally there. and calling on them to financially support him as he does. a fund-raising event is now scheduled right after his arraignment. cnn national correspondent kristen holmes is in bedminster, new jersey, where the team is strategizing where they were when he got the phone call that he was being indicted, and where
welcome to cnn s special coverage of the federal indictment of donald trump. i m jakep tapper. i m erin burnett. right now former president trump is on his way to miami where he will make his federal court appearance in a little over 24 hours. it is an unprecedented moment, historic moment a test for the justice system in america. the former president set to be arraigned on those 37 felony counts over handling classified documents and sources tell cnn that trump is expected to meet with his lawyers ahead of tuesday s appearance but it is unclear as of now ha that means because we don t know the who former president is going to be able to hire to represent him. we know right now intense security preparations are under way in south florida and we have a news conference coming your way shortly. officials will hold a conference to talk about the security preparations to ramp up security in the next hour. yeah. we do know that fbi is tracking potential threats, as violent rhe
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