Former President Donald Trump, courtesy of florida 24 news. Youre watching cspan three. It is a day history will remember as the 45th president of the United States faces a 37 count federal indictment on i am dewalt her. Saying this is special coverage of the arraignment of Donald John Trump. That arraignment now about an hour away especially will have a producer inside the courthouse bringing you history as that history is made. President trump arriving at that federal courthouse just moments ago. We have Team Coverage taking us through this important day. National Political Correspondent alex miller is outside the federal courthouse. Deputy political director joe st. Georges just above it. Our political director, Andrew Rafferty, with us in atlanta. National security correspondent Sasha Ingraham is in d. C. White house correspondent haley bullies in bedminster new jersey were from President Trump will appear tonight. Got a full house here, ready to talk about. Days lets begin with our national Political Correspondent, alex outside the federal courthouse in miami. Alex, the motorcade arriving literally just moments ago. What are you seeing happening right around where you are . The scene here right now is incredibly different. A night and day from what we saw just 24 hours ago. We spent the day out here yesterday. There were one or two protesters today. There are close to i would say 1000 protesters. Here are most of them supporters of the former president. Lots of them bringing flags. Trump flags. American flags. Decked out in trump gear. People driving around this entire city block. Honking their cars. Writing on their cars. This is a completely different scene. Then what we saw yesterday. But miami police. The mare, they say theyve got it all under control. Press conference yesterday. It is there gonna keep the streets open. So, far for the most, where they have. The street just behind where we are set up did shut down for a little bit of time. Because of a suspicious package. It was reopened. Traffic is flowing here. As normal. Obviously, with a bit of delays. The president s right now it is much bigger than it was yesterday. We got numbers in the Department Homeland security really Walking Around this courthouse. Using really fanned out around the city may. Emmy police cars all around the city. We gotta make sure everything is safe. The mayor actually showed up here just a little while ago. He says hes confident that this can stay a peaceful situation. We have constant contingency plans. Should it not be. Yesterday, they said they were gonna let people walk all over wherever they wanted to go the area behind me leading up to the courthouse. Had remained open. But now, it is not. We saw some protests are trying to walk right behind our live shot location. The police are very quick to run up to them and say that they needed to move. While they want to keep this open situation for the most part, there are little bits of protection we can see the police trying to have. To keep this courthouse safe as the former president arrives a couple minutes ago. That scene on camera where you are. We are seeing just moments ago. Its an indication of the micro macro causes that you see. When you see events like this. It appears that there are thousands of people. The Helicopter Shot a scene to tell a different story. We continue to keep an eye on crowd size. With events like this, its an important factor. You are gauging support of the former president. That is alex miller for us live at the courthouse in miami. Alex, thank you very much. Joe, i know you are also miami. Can you take us through what were about to see moving ahead . Yeah the former president of the United States arriving here at the federal courthouse. Right around two pm eastern time. That hearing scheduled for three pm. Youre wondering okay, why get here an hour before. Thats because the processing has to occur. Typically, you arrive you would arrive before your first initial hearing. You would be fingerprinted. That would be very similar to the case the former President Trump will be doing in the federal courthouse here over the course of this next hour. A digital fingerprint. White house producer cal and howell is with us here in miami. She came out a short time ago. Briefed us on the procedures the former president could be a normal booking process for the most part. There will be some exceptions. We have digital fingerprints. Were gonna have a much loaded to the system as opposed to a mugshot taken. There was a lot of debate over whether or not a mugshot was even necessary. I spoke with one federal prosecutor, former federal prosecutor who says typically mugshots needs of the individual, the clerk, the judge knows who the defendant is in a case. Mr. Trump is one the most recognizable faces in the entire world. He debated the necessity of a mugshot. It looks like were gonna have an uploaded mugshot. All of this will be happening ahead of this three pm hearing. A couple of things to know. A lot of attention has been paid to judge aileen cannon. Shes been the individual assigned to oversee the major portions of this case. If this goes to trial, when this goes to trial. It will be talking about judge aileen cannon. Who was appointed by former President Trump. No indication that there is a recusal there. Typically for this first hearing. You deal with magistrate judges. There is a difference here. District judges like judge cannon theyre appointed by the president s of the United States. Confirmed by the senate. When you have magistrate judges, theyre typically chosen to do the morgue ministry of tasks such as the nso arraignment, the reading of charges, theyre chosen by judges in their jurisdiction. Those are some of the nuts and bolts of what we expect to happen at the federal courthouse in the heart of miami. Well continue to look at these pictures of this courthouse. Which is not just a this is a political story. Were not just talking about the former president of the United States. Heroes so talking about the leading candidate for the republican nomination. In 2024. As well. Former President Donald Trump. Nuts and bolts business as usual few exceptions here and there of some differences. Live in miami thank you. Lets go to our political director andrew as jill was pointing out, so many times. This is a legal. Process it is also a political process. This indictment creating division in the republican party. We are now starting to see some notable shifts. Its interesting, we were talking about donald trump today. Were talking about him yesterday. Im sure well be talking about him again tomorrow. Its a candidate for the white house, once again, it leaves a lot of these republican rivals in a somewhat difficult position. Trying to breakthrough. We know that donald trump has a very sizable lead over those republican president ial candidates. Hes currently running against. We have seen over the past few days a little bit more sharper language from some of his rivals those who have seen Chris Christie come to the race last week. Asa hutchinson, former arkansas governor call on donald trump to leave the race. Not as this early because hes guilty but because this is just such a distraction. Now what were seeing is some more republican candidates kind of saying that what don trump essentially has done is not right. Has put the country at risk who originally in the aftermath of this. News of this and i havent had kind of defended donald trump. She has said that she has some serious concerns. Tim scott even saying that there is a sum he feels the law has been in appropriately applied in this case. When democrats he says have done similar things that have not gotten charged. Certainly not indicted in the way were seeing play out right now. That he still has some concerns. You are seeing a lot of republicans. Especially who are returning to capitol hill today. Not necessarily defending the president but saying that what he did was wrong. But having some concerns about why joe biden is not being prosecuted in the same way we can get into that. There are some big differences between all of these cases. Some big differences that we think donald trump is going to bring out tonight when he speaks in front of a national audience. For, now you are right to say that more of these republicans as with the information from that indictment has become unsealed and is now public. Certainly saying that there are potential National Security issues at play here. Even lindsay, graham the staunch is a doll Trump Supporters coming out and saying that he believes these charges are serious. And jim rafferty, thank you. You can see the clock that were watching right now. 51 minutes exactly before the arraignment of the former president begins. That is our countdown clock as we continue to await the proceedings. Taking place inside the courtroom. Reminder, we do have a reporter inside the courtroom as well. Just to pick off for andrew left. Of all National Security. These are significant charges. With a National Security implications. It is worth noting here. For decades, or spend the sundance with administrations. And the National Archives and Records Administration what to do with documents. My question to you, how should these types of documents have been handled . These documents are generally stored in whats called a skiff. This is a sensitive compartmented information facility. This has very specific in technical constructions to prevent a surveillance. There are layers of security even to get in. Including badgeing, in typing in a code to get in. Some u. S. Embassies leave labels outside of these rooms. Theyre deceptive so you wouldnt even know what is going on inside. Traveling out aside with a top secret document this in itself is very technical in the process that youre supposed to take here. I spoke with the former senior counterintelligence official, peter strzok. He told me that he would have to take a top secret document to just a mile down the road to the Justice Department from the fbi. He would have to go to a special room to get an invitation tory form. It would have a serial number on. It he would put those in they secured bag. He wouldve walked armed across the street to the Justice Department. He would give this to somebody else and they would have to sign the inventory form. Keep a copy and then he would take a copy back across the street. When you go into these rooms, you are not even allowed to bring a cell phone or any kind of technology. To see in this indictment these images of box is with documents spilling out. In showers, bathrooms, ballrooms. The u. S. Government says this poses a grave risk to National Security. Because of course, human sources are risking their lives to share information. They continue to trust this country . What does this mean for military personnel overseas. Just that antidote alone walking across the street. It just paints a picture of how much gravity is around navigating having these documents. Reporting live from washington. Thank. You reminded that what you are seeing on your screen right now weighs only partial coverage where we will be covering all day long. We are also going to be watching the events that take place later tonight. A Trump National golf club in bedminster new jersey. Also bringing you those relevant portions tonight at 8 00. The president expected to speak live to the crowd there. He is not expected to address the gathering outside the courthouse where we are looking at the scenes coming in from miami. A reminder as you are watching us here. You can always go to scripts news. Com we have posted the entire indictment. 49 pages and all. It is actually a very fascinating read. You can also find more coverage at scripts news on twitter, on instagram, on facebook and on tiktok. Were waiting to sort of President Trumps arraignment. Again, we do have the scripts news producer in inside the courthouse. In a moment, it will be going to bedminster live where President Trump is set to speak tonight. Its gonna keep an eye on for. Us in a moment, the legal perspective. Weve been talking about. It is a political situation. It is also a legal situation. How strong is the government case on the former president. A special panel agus on tack to join us next. 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We take you back now to live coverage of the arraignment of former President Donald Trump in miami. Courtesy of florida 24. We take you back now to live coverage of the arraignment of former President Donald Trump in miami. Courtesy of florida 24. Youre watching sports News Coverage of the arraignment of Donald J Trump. A moment he will enter a federal courtroom in miami to hear the 37 federal accounts against him. All of this related to his handling those secret documents. The indictment alleging that they were stored illegally in a ball room in a bathroom and other locations that maralago. Mr. Trump also allegedly heard on audio tapes showing off at least one of those documents. Matt says the joins are coverage now. Hes live with Trump Supporters outside the federal courthouse in miami. Matt, can you describe the scene at the courthouse right now. Thats going on around you. Yeah, ill tell you right now. There are a lot of people out there moving around. Were actually behind the courthouse. On the west side of the courthouse. Which is where the caravan of suvs with donald trump arrived here today. There are quite a number of people who have gathered all around the perimeter here. On the back of the courthouse here. Hoping they could catch a glimpse of donald trump. They did not happen because the vehicles went down into an underground port. A much more secured area. Where he could get out of the vehicle and enter the courthouse. This is a very heavily guarded entrance right now. A lot of heavy armful east officers and secret service agents. Where im standing is actually something of a little pedestrian mall area. Which offers a lot of shade which i think is one of the reasons one of the two reasons a lot of people came here. Hopefully to catch a glimpse of donald trump but secondly, it is pretty shady over here. A lot of people have been walking. Around they got flags. Theyve got hats like this fellow who came up. I am from pole beans gardens. Prolifers for trump. Why did you want to come out here . What do you think. We have the best president. This is a travesty thats going on. A lot better then. Thousands of people here today. Media everywhere. I talk to people from all over the country. Its been great. Channel five is number. One thing, i appreciated. There are a lot of people knowing around the coffee. Shop places to. It this is one of the relief places i guess. Where people have come. Im gonna keep spinning around because theres a lot more people gathered over here. Kind of all mixed in with the media all working to get a shot of the courthouse. Try to weigh flags and say hello to a lot of people. I think that gentleman just told us, for the most, part from what weve seen, it has been a fairly well behaved. It is very hot here. I dont know if they kind of make people slow down a little bit. There are some signs. We see a lot of signs in spanish out. Here we see a lot of signs in english. There are also some people who are opposed on trump like this gentleman over here. Who is in a prison suit. I believe he has a lock above sign. Hes been quite visible throughout the day here. For the most part, he