The family of travis king is speaking out. The american soldier who ran across the dmz into north korea and still being detained there. His family is pushing back on statements that he defected to the north korean army. This is cnn news central. Keep your eyes on this courthouse in washington d. C. Today. It now becomes the center of the legal and political universe really in some sense hours from now, donald trump will come here and once he steps inside, he will again be under arrest. Under arrest for the third time in four months as he faces a new round of criminal charges. At this courthouse, donald trump is expected to be fingerprinted. Not expected to have a mug shot taken, he is to face a Magistrate Judge and all indications hell plead not guilty to all four counts. New details on how his lawyers plan to defend him coming in, planning to argue the lies about the 2020 election are protected speech under the First Amendment and theyre trying to prove that trump new the claims. But
the scenes we re seeing it s a security question. yes. you can see the police tape and barricades behind sara murray there. we re told law enforcement officials are on high alert, obviously. we spotted secret service agents going through the courthouse building sort of advanced prep from what we ll see today. shimon prokupecz is there manning the barricades himself. why don t you show us what s going on? reporter: well, so we re on the third street side of the courthouse. you heard sara talk about when he gets here and the process. so this is normally the entrance here, john, that is closed. they re only allowing staff in here. these are the officers protecting the outside, interior of the building. they re out with bomb sniffing dogs. but this, john, is the street we expect the former president to drive through as he enters the courthouse.