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 alongs
I think we need to think through, to me also is more this position we need to have all 19 people at the table 47 days from now, and maybe this is something, if you need to tag team with somebody else on the counsel, one of the first things i kind of want to talk through is potentially how removal affects this. So i know your estate is currently litigating this issue with multiple codefendants in federal court. And while that is happening until a decision is made, we cant issue a judgment of conviction here. Yes, judge. No matter how judge rules, isnt either party going to have right to appeal that rule something. Thats correct. Both sides would have the right to appeal. So the 11th circuit could take, any idea of how long to weigh in . As long as they need to. Right. So it could potentially even optimistically be a six month turn around for the 11th circuit to come up with a decision, right . Yes, sir. If its a fourmonth trial, this starts in october, we present the entire states case,
Case and may not be in others, right . Yes, your honor. So i guess some of the things i think we need to think through, to me also, its more this position that we still need to have all 19 people at the table 47 days from now. And maybe this is something if you need to tag team with somebody else on the counsel. I want to talk about how removal affects this. So i know youre a state your state is currently litigating this issue with multiple codefendants in Federal Court. And while thats happening, until its a decision a decision is made, we cant issue a judgment of conviction here, right . Yes, judge. Now, no matter how judge jones rules, isnt either party going to have the right to appeal that ruling . That is correct, judge. Our positions would be both sides have the right to appeal. The 11th circuit could take any idea of how long to weigh . As long as they need to. Right. Could potentially even optimistically be a sixmonth turnaround for the 11th circuit to come up with a decision.
Enforcement agencies all over Fulton County to then make sure that these grand jurors are safe. So i think one consideration the court also needs to make in allowing this is the safety of these grand jurors and their concerns that have already been voiced. But ill just say the Georgia Supreme Court observed the grand jury as a Public Institution serving the community might suffer if those testifying today knew that the secrecy of their testimony would be lifted tomorrow. The indispensable secrecy must not be broken except where theres a compelling necessity. Theres been no compelling necessity raised by this defense to pierce this veil of secrecy of the grand jury. What was the cite for that, the last one . Sorry, judge. Where is that coming from . Kessler, judge. Can you spell that one for me . You have that case, judge. In my stack. Can we just pause one moment . Sure. And then the state talked about this, but i wanted to point out, talking about deliberations and the fact it should
We know from the superseding indictment that they had surveillance footage of nada and de oliveira walking along the pool emitter of mar-a-lago. the whole part of them working through the bushes from one part of the property to the. other with they have surveillance footage from multiple locations referenced in this indictment. the discovery burden will increase that, plus we have the possibility of additional pretrial motions that can t be stopped. one of those is called the severance motion. that is when one defendant says, i can t get a fair trial if i m sitting next to that guy. that s a hard argument for someone like walt nauta to make, particularly given that he remains employed as trump s body guy. but we don t know what the status of carlos de oliveira is right now. he also is not as implicated in the criminal charges here as nauta and trump are. he could see the pretrial publicity surrounding the former president is so massive that he and nara nauta can t