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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 ....
and whether his client wants to see the former president indicted. mr trump has been seeking donations. as you know, from his supporters fundraising off his claims he was going to be arrested this past tuesday and in a new series of statements on the social network is calling the manhattan district attorney alvin bragg, quote, danger to our country and to quote animal he s also linked to an article with a photo of bragg next to a photo of himself with a baseball bat looking like he s ready to take a swing. brags office, meantime, sent a letter to house republicans who are seeking to investigate the investigators. the letter says. house republicans only got involved quote after donald trump created a false expectation that he would be arrested the next day, and his lawyers reportedly urged you to intervene. neither fact the letter continues is a legitimate basis for congressional inquiry. here s how speaker mccarthy s reply. impossible. i don t understand why he only jus ....
political ones development as well on the federal side. lawyers for the former vice president were in court today behind closed doors, trying to block a grand jury subpoena for his testimony in the january 6th case, and in the classified documents case. tomorrow is the day the former prisons attorney , evan corcoran, is expected to give additional testimony and turned over documents after the d. c district appeals court. upheld. the judge is incredibly rare decision to set aside attorney client privilege under the crime fraud exception. now we have reporting tonight on all of the above cnn s kara scannell on them and hadn t case and kaylen poland s on the federal action caress canal starts us off. so any idea why things have slowed down with the grand jury in new york. this grand jury has been hearing evidence in this case since january. we ve seen a number of the witnesses close to this david pecker at the national enquirer. um michael cohen, who is trump s fixed or th ....
Willis in atlanta she s getting killed. basically she s saying trump doesn t have the right to criticize an election. amy lee copeland, is that what district attorney willis is saying? that s not what she s saying, lawrence. she is saying i have a statutory duty to review cases to determine if there s probable cause. if i think there is, i take it before a grand jury. and if the grand jury finds probable cause, then i seek an indictment. that s what she s done here. she did this both at the regular grand jury stage, but even before then she got a special purpose grand jury so no one could claim this was rushed. that special purpose grand jury heard 75 witnesses and considered documents over the course of months, so mr. trump has gotten twice as many procedural protections as most criminal defendants have. she doesn t decide whether or not he gets indicted. that s in the hands of ordinary ....
Because that came from a supreme court decision. they had already decided on that. that there is a crime fraud exception to attorney/client privilege. why would they revisit what they already said is precedent? i think that there will be new challenges thousas now with team, not at the grand jury stage, but now at the trial stage. and there is also going to be separate to what you are interlocker to appeals, that could delay this as well, other issues will come up where they say we can t proceed until a h higher court renders a decision on whatever legal motion is being made. so a lot of steps that can take place. not maybe the supreme court, but other higher courts to make those decisions. and we ve all been closely watching the other primary competitors the former president is facing. mike pence, former vice president, i think was at the wall street journal doing editorial board meeting while this was all happening to some ....