We know theyre still in there. Its after 5 00 right now. Paula, walk us through what happens if the grand jury decides to indict donald trump and or any of his allies. Reporter we expect the indictment also be for over a dozen people. The former president s lawyers say they do expect he will be among those indicted. We would expect the District Attorney would seek an indictment from the grand jury and it would go to the Clerks Office where we will most likely get our copy. Then it will be made public and well be able to read about the charges. One of the things thats unclear, jake, is when the former president would appear for his initial appearance and a potential arraignment. In the federal cases that happened quickly. Down in georgia, sources telling cnn that the former president s team expects it may take a little longer to have his first appearance down in georgia if hes indicted. Paula reid, thanks so much. As those witnesses continue to testify before the grand jury in atlanta,
More speed for your business . Its not just possible. Its happening. Get started for 59. 99 a month for 12 months. Plus, ask how to get an 800 prepaid card with a qualifying internet bundle. Comcast business, powering possibilities. This morning the judge in the trump trial has been admonishing the trump attorney telling him to stop bringing up the same arguments again and again and this is day two of the trial, apnd we will have more o that for you. Developments in that courtroom, and now, hunter biden has plead not guilty to three gun charges. We will tell you what happened inside of that courtroom. And now, Kevin Mccarthy is on the brink of costing him a vote for his speakership. What is going to happen there. With john berman and sara sidner, im kate bolduan. This is cnn news central. It is chaos on capitol hill right now, and in a special kind of chaos this time. House lawmaker are getting set and ready to vote on whether or not to oust Kevin Mccarthy as speaker at some point to t
While many candidates attended events and met with voters, donald trump seemed focused mainly on up staging ron desantis. it appeared that president trump was at times trolling desantis. he had a plane flying overhead with a banner saying be more likable. he traveled with an entourage, also, of trump, largely made up of floridians, desantis home state, including members of congress that endorsed him including byron donalds, matt ga gaetz, mike waltz of. do you think it bothered desantis at all? probably. not very many attendees of the iowa state fair know any members of the florida congressional delegation. they don t recognize them, they don t care about them.
But it s not where they expected to be. so 30 days to file the briefs and we ll see if the judge brings everyone back here or if she rules on the papers. john? it has to be an uncomfortable time for everyone involved. this is not what they were expecting at all. thank you so much for being there. rahel? this morning several republican members of congress are aiming to capitalize on the confusion surrounding hunter biden s plea agreement. this is after being critical of the deal. i want to bring in lauren fox up on capitol hill. good morning. so what are you hearing? reporter: yeah, yesterday we talked to a number of conservatives, close allies of former president trump who said the reason it fell apart was because it was a sweetheart deal to begin with. there was a nuance to what the judge s concerns were with this deal. here s what one republican, matt ga gaetz said to me yesterday.
Make it better for republicans to go back to the base and say we ve been trying to rewrite the rules for you because the rules are wrong. they re showing they have no solution and no way and can t find a way. it s interesting. i wonder how you would answer this question because earlier today, manu raju said how matt ga gaetz, the maga republican congressman said mccarthy doesn t have the votes to be speaker, and mccarthy says i do. who do you believe, me or matt gaetz? i thought that s a tough question. that is a very tough question. but i think you talked about the election. he also said republicans were going to glove neovern and focu bringing solutions on inflation and crime and everything that they ran on. the first thing they announce? investigations. possible impeachments and now they re obsessed and focused on the speakership and what is kevin mccarthy doing? he s selling out to his maga