This is cnn breaking news. This is a live look outside of the federal courthouse in washington, d. C. Grand jurors have been Hearing Evidence today in the Special Counsels january 6th probe. They were just seen leaving for the day and we are standing by to find out if they voted on whether to hand up an indictment for donald trump. Sources telling cnn that the former president and his advisers are right now preparing for a Potential Indictment. Cnns paula reid is joining us now on that. Paula, what are you hearing . Reporter so, we know that the grand jury that has been Hearing Evidence in the Special Counsels investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election, they have been seen leaving the building, but one important person stayed behind and that is the grand juror foreperson. That is significant, because that is the only member of the grand jury that is needed to return an indictment. Now, at this point its unclear if they have voted to indict the former president , or anyone else in this investigation, but one of the reasons were watching their movement so closely today is because of what weve seen over the past two weeks. We know the former president has received a target letter informing him he is a target in this investigation. He received an invitation to appear before the grand jury which he declined and, brianna, that is usually something that comes at the end of an investigation. And also another sign that an indictment was imminent, his Defense Attorneys met with jack smith and his team last week, sources tell cnn they did not think they would be able to successfully change the trajectory of this investigation, but they hoped they might be able to delay it. Now, this is the first time weve seen the grand jury back meeting today at work, but, again, at this point we dont know if they have returned an indictment. Typically the way this works is that thiltd bring this indictment to a Magistrate Judge in a sealed proceeding. It is unclear, though, if this is going to go according to the usual script because, of course, this would be once again a historic case, so they may deal with it slightly differently but usually it has to be returned before a Magistrate Judge in a sealed hearing and the indictment would remain sealed until an arrest, but its unclear given the historic and the National Significance of a possible indictment if this could be handled slightly differently, if we could see potentially documents shortly after any indictment is returned, but, brianna, we have our Wonderful Team of reporters at the courthouse watching every possible angle of this right now and well come back to you if we hear an indictment has indeed, been returned. Thank you so much. Jim. Major Potential Indictment pending here in washington, another major indictment pending possibly in georgia. This, of course, involving donald trump as well and learning the Fulton CountyDistrict Attorney fani willis has issued subpoenas to a former State Lawmaker as well as an independent journalist, a strong signal she does intend to seek indictments in her criminal probe of trump because those witnesses relate to efforts to put a fake slate of electors in georgia to overturn the results of the election there. Cnns sara murray joins me now. These newest subpoenas point, it seems, to her focus on this attempt to seat fake electors there. Biden won the state, an attempt to Seat Electors that would have shown trump falsely won the state. Reporter yeah, i think that that is one prong of her investigation, and, again, this has been a 13r5u8ing investigation that lasted 2 1 2 years and these subpoenas for grand jury testimony are the clearest indication that shes putting forward a presentation to put before the grand jury and to seek indictments, of course, as you said, she has not made any announcements yet on when she will seek charges against but gethe independent journalis you mentioned stumbled upon the republican fake electors meeting at the Georgia State capitol. He was kicked out of the room where they were meeting and told it was an educationrelated meeting that, of course, ended up not to be the case and the other person who received a subpoena for grand jury testimony is former Democratic State senator jen jordan. She was present when Rudy Giuliani showed up, again, at the Georgia State capitol and shared all of these Conspiracy Theories about the election being stolen and essentially tried to convince the State Legislature that they could be involved in this and move forward with Seating Electors and, of course, Rudy Giuliani was there presenting sharing a number of Conspiracy Theories so these are witnesses that she seems to want, fani willis seems to want ready to put forward a possible grand jury presentation sometime in the month of august. The subpoenas essentially say be prepared, be ready to go between august 7th and the end of the month and give you 48 hours notice for when you need to appear. Goodness, and also that effort to conceal what they were actually up to in that statehouse in georgia at the time. Sara murray, thanks so much. Joining me now, former federal prosecutor Renato Mariota and here we are, the former president possibly on the cusp of not one, but two additional indictments or perhaps multiple one here in washington, d. C. And the ongoing case in georgia. If the Special Counsel, in this grand jury has decided to indict the former president specifically for events on january 6th, also an effort nationally to overturn the election can you place it into context for us, more serious than the other indictments, but also historically . Have we ever seen anything like this legally . We havent, and i think, you know, when you said put this in kong text it is beyond any context weve ever seen in the criminal Justice System before. You know, up until the maralago case, we did not have an indictment of any sitting or former president that was the first ever indictment, federal indictment of a former president. He has two already. Its not just someone, not some oathcareer, the former president of the United States being indicted for a scheme that prevented the peaceful transfer of power in the United States. One thing thats been a hallmark of the United States since president washington stepped down is that we have a peaceful transfer of power in the country so its certainly serious. I could break it down in a legal sense of whether its serious or not but its unprecedented. Its far reaching. It is the first and only indictment of its kind if it comes out. Youre at a disadvantage because we are not members of the grand jury, as we all are and have some tea leaves as to the evidence and the Witness Testimony that the Special Counsel has in this case, but based on what you know, can you describe the standard, right, to prove this . If youve convinced a jury, a grand jury to indict him, thats one thing. You now have to convince a jury of 12 to convict a former president here. What would you need to see to meet that standard . Its a great question. You know, the standard legally is for grand juries, they just need good reason to believe a crime occurred. Pretty low standard. At trial its Beyond A Reasonable Doubt. And the Justice Policy is not to seek an indictment unless youre confident that you can prove your case Beyond A Reasonable Doubt when it gets into the courtroom. And so what are we looking for here . What would jack smith be looking for in his investigation . Hes looking to disprove, you know, arguments that trump has that he legitimately knew that, you know legitimately thought the election was stolen from him. You know, in other words, he wasnt trying to defraud everyone by selling the big lie but generally thought it was true, Subpoena Witnesses close to trump whether as weve heard jared kushner, weve heard mike pension, others subpoenaed for that. Also trying to deal with these, i would say, advice of counsel the advice hes getting from dishonest or, you know, crooked lawyers, people like Giuliani Or Eastman who have offered very questionable unethical legal theories. What he would believe about that. What else was he told by legitimate, you know, honest lawyers about what his Legal Options were . I think thats going to be a focus of what hes looking for. Now, you, of course, have the Georgia Investigation which relates specifically to trump and his allies efforts to overturn the election there but if you were to have him indicted, both here in federal court, in georgia, the state investigation, in addition to the indictment and that was superseded in fact, expanded last week in the documents case and the one in new york this is a man running for president currently leading the gop nomination, how busy would he be in court in the coming weeks and months . For most defendants, for most people, being indicted in one case is an allconsuming matter. It is for many people attempt suicide. They lose their businesses. They lose their marriages. Their life is turned upside down by one indictment. Dealing with four indictments, i mean, thats the full r. Kelly treatment where youre indicted across the country by prosecutors all over the place in federal and state court. That is a very difficult situation to be in and, frankly, that is more than one person could ordinarily handle when theyre not running for president. Renato mariotti, i imagine well have more questions going forward. The Gilgo Beach Serial Killing suspect appeared in court and Rex Heuermann is pleading not guilty to the murders of three women and Police Believe that heuermann may have committed the killings inside of his familys home when his wife and his two children were out of town. And after an intensive search of the property, his wifes attorney shared some photos of the aftermath. Cnns jean casarez is joining us live from outside that courthouse where, jean, the d. A. As well as the attorney, the Court Appointed attorney for Rex Heuermann has just they both have spoken. What has happened there . Reporter well, let me tell you what happened in the courtroom, because first of all, the defendant was in the courtroom. He was there, and he was wearing khaki pants, a gray suit jacket, he was handcuffed when he was at the defense table. He spoke a little bit to his attorney, but the focus of todays proceeding was the voluminous amount of discovery. In court it was said 2,500 pages of discovery. There were two hard drives, six discs that will get in the hands of the defense and as we heard the prosecutor say out in the press Conference New York has a very broad Discovery Requirement from the prosecution to the defense. We also heard from those 2500 pages incurred. My colleague told me that its photos and autopsy photos and lots of paperwork, lots of reports, also from the new york medical examiners office, the autopsy reports, photos of the crime scene, crime scene processing photos, so much for a 13year investigation to be handed now over to the defense. We just had a presser from the prosecution and the defense, i want you to listen to a little bit of that. The press has convicted my client without seeing a shred of evidence. So, he doesnt stand a chance with the press. And were not going to try the case in the press. I doubt that any one of you for a moment have even contemplated the possibility that they have the wrong guy. Reporter now, we can tell you from what he just said this will be a very aggressive defense by that attorney for Rex Heuermann. I can also confirm with you that there were Family Members of the victims in that courtroom this afternoon. The District Attorney said more than one. He would not say who they were. They do not want to be public. They want to stay private. But they are so focused in on this of the family mes that they lost so long ago, jim. Yeah, he said that some of them are very, very engaged, jean, and certainly many of them have said they feel relief knowing that someone has been charged with the murders of their sisters, of their daughters. Walk us through these photos which we should mention have been released by the attorney for the family, for as have ellerup who has filed for divorce that they have released to the public following this extensive search by police. Reporter well, this is what they found when the family returned late last week when the processing was over of that home. Things are turned around, turned over. It doesnt look like a home anymore. Theres boxes that say evidence with the evidence tape, obviously those are boxes they determined they would not take for processing, because thats whats going on with all this potential evidence they have in their hands now, but they are trying to find forensically and the District Attorney confirmed this just minutes ago anything forensically that is relevant to this case that may show that the victims were actually inside that home, because we know from the application from prosecutors that the family was out of town when these people these victims went missing and when they were murdered and so theyre looking to see if theres anything that is of evidentiary value for this prosecution. All right jean casarez in riverhead, a lot happening there today, thank you so much. Jim. Ahead this hour on Cnn News Central, moscow under attack once again. Well have the latest on ukraines new apparent strategy. 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