The lookout for. He did it in front of everybody. But today, he was nabbed, so to speak. He was arrested and booked. No mugshot was taken at the ex president , but his fingerprints were taken. There are no cameras allowed in federal court. We have these sketches, where donald j trump, the 44th president of the united states, was the rain, 45th president of the united states, was arraigned on four Felony Counts for his attempts to steal the election. The ex president pleaded not guilty, there were no literal handcuffed. But he surrendered and was arrested, he submitted to federal custody in the federal courthouse. Special counsel jack smith sat in the front row during the arraignment. Defendant trump was sworn in. We did not hear a lot from him, but when asked by the Magistrate Judge, he stated his full name, quote, donald j trump, john. When asked his age he said 77, 77. He entered a plea of not guilty on all charges for his attempts to subvert american democracy and end the Constituti
There are no cameras allowed in federal court. We have these sketches, where donald j trump, the 44th president of the united states, it was arraigned for eight 45th president of the united states, was arraigned on four Felony Counts for his attempts to steal the election. The ex president pleaded not guilty, there were no literal handcuffed. But he surrendered and was arrested, he submitted to federal custody in the Federal Courthouse. Special counsel jack smith sat in the front row during the arraignment. Defendant trump was sworn in. We did not hear a lot from him, but when asked by the Magistrate Judge, he stated his full name, quote, donald j trump, john. When asked his age he said 77, 77. He entered a plea of not guilty on all charges for his attempts to subvert American Democracy and and the Constitutional Republic as we know it. In an extraordinary and unexpected term, the Magistrate Judge warned the defendant, donald john trump, to not try to influence any jurors. She warned t
the arraignment today was described by people inside the room as intense. packed to capacity, several other federal judges, in fact, and the chief judge of the d.c. federal court seated in the back row, taking it all in. the parties decided on the next hearing date. and the magistrate judge gave three options after conferring with the trial judge, judge chutkan, jack smith s team, yes, yes, oh yes, they picked the earliest date. guess what trump s team did? and they requested the latest. a. they got. it august 28th at 10 am, the judge will set a trial date then. get ready. garrett haake is a senior capitol hill correspondent for nbc news, one of the very few reporters actually allowed inside that courtroom during trump s arraignment and he joins me now. garrett, my impression, we were doing live coverage, rachel was doing an incredible job of reading your live dispatches on air in a way that made me feel like i was in there, you did fantastic work covering it for
coconspirators listed with their attempts to support democracy detailed through the remaining pages. but result legal actions taken by smith s office imply he wants this case, the january 6th case, to go first. let me explain. one week ago tonight, we were all expecting this indictment to come out of the washington, d.c., federal courthouse. we were on pins and needles. but instead, smith was focused on another case, 1000 miles south, miami. that day, he added a third defendant in the classified documents case. he also released a superseding indictment, adding new charges against the ex president and the new defendant, it mar-a-lago property manager. this came out of nowhere. completely unexpected. and it was kind of strange because, what s that going to do to the case? it s going to slow it down. when you add a new defendant and new charges, it serves to tap the brakes on the trial date in this case. the new defendant, carlos
my lifetime. i ve got to imagine that should we get a trial, and it looks like we are headed towards one, this would again be in a category of its own, historically, for a trial of the century. a category of its own, brilliantly side. and then a test of whether it is a trial of any century, and i would say the three centuries or at least over two centuries of american history this would be, look at the consequences. many of us think the assassination of john kennedy made big changes in this country, beginning with the fact that baby kennedy wouldn t have escalated the vietnam war. that would ve been a pretty big change. in donald trump s case, had he succeeded on the 6th of january, if he becomes president again, if he tries to institute that kind of presidential dictatorship he s talking about, instituting presidential emergency powers and using martial law and the insurrection act, maybe he wanted to do according to this