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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 ....
Of people downtown. not the crush of trump supporters maybe that some had predicted. politically, anderson, one of the most difficult things i think for republicans to reconcile are donald trump s 2016 statements about hillary clinton and what s happening right now. in 2016, he asailed hillary clinton for her mishandling of classified information. no one will be above the law he said, and it disqualifies her from the presidency. the tape will be rolled time and time and time again, so legal, i don t know what s going to happen with this court or when the trial is going to be, i just know that tape right there is going to be played so much, so much. scott and i were discussing prior to this, prior to coming on air. there s so much video out there of the former president talking about this, talking about then secretary of state clinton s misuse of her e-mail server and how no one is above the law and 2018 him signing a law making the mishandling of classified or ....
Whoever the judge is going to be here in florida, she s going to be able to relook at that and relitigate that and trump might appeal some of these rulings and want to go up to the supreme court. i think he s going to do everything he can to try to use the legal process to delay this so that he doesn t have a trial in this case. laura, do you still think it s possible it would happen before the election? there s one hand what would be prudent for the average defendant, who doesn t know whether they have a friendly jury, doesn t know whether the jury is going to be likely to have more than one or even one person on their side. in this particular issue this is tape moments ago, the former president getting into his vehicle. and this instance, it might be that donald trump would be more likely or willing to have a trial in front of this particular jury because you would hope for an acquittal. having said that, jack smith say they want to have a speedy trial which is about 70 day ....
Even half of it is true, he s toast. that is someone who used to be a loyal ally of trump s. you know, to dana s point, yes, this is historic and to your point sad, but i think we also have to talk about the big picture context. this is not the only thing that donald trump is facing. we had the charges in new york, that arrest and arraignment two months ago, we have the special counsel is also investigating him for january 6th, we, i think, expect something to happen in georgia at the fulton county investigation, maybe in august. i was struck by two things today, one is that the surreal part is we ve done this before. this is now oddly normal for us. we have seen donald trump taken ....
Being applied equally to both sides of the political spectrum. that s a perception that exists. an erosion of our institutions. that s something that worries me as a republican and american. i think we have to get back to a positive conversation a unifying conversation. when you talk about 80%, i want to spend 80% of my time discussing things we agree on, that our tomorrow should be better than yesterday, we should live in peace and security. those are the things as americans we all agree on. once the conversation gets back to that, i think our country is going to be a lot healthier. chris christie made the point last night in a town hall with anderson cooper that a lot of republicans, a lot of other members of your party are blaming the justice department and prosecutors but not directing that at trump. if he had just cooperated an given back the documents, none of this would be happening. you know, we keep talking about it and i think what happens is, we re giving the former pres ....