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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 ...

crucial witnesses in any of these trump probes. i'm talking about the man atop the white house during the january 6th insurrection, and he was chief of staff during that period, chaotic and otherwise of trump's departure when we know the secretive classified documents were taken, stolen, or mishandled. the man you see on the screen is your witness, mark meadows. the "times" has just crossed that news in the last few minutes. we have that news. we've also got this video, providing a rare look at trump council jack smith heading to work today, apparently escorted by security. msnbc new...

Be used against him. that's ahead nist in this so-called arrest. >> in terms of his schedule, the single most important thing he may do today in order to get out of this is what he's going to do tonight when he goes back to bedminster and has a $2 million fundraiser with a bunch of high dollar donors. if this trial gets pushed off beyond the election in 2024 f he gets re-elected president of the united states, he will not stand trial for this matter. so it may be that what's happening here today is compelling, but tonight when he goes off to resume his campaign, that might be his best strategy...

Investigator, i would want to interview sean spicer and find out from him, who told you that and why did you talk about that in the public. so it's very strange for the investigators to be talking to the witnesses at this stage of the investigation. >> you had the fbi deputy fbi director actually talking to reince priebus, the chief of staff at the white house, and bringing the subject up. >> that is also very strange because, again, the target of the investigation will include, in part, what was happening in the trump transition team before jan 20th. >> and the trump campaign, if paul manafor...

Trillions of dollars. we have to eliminate criminal aliens. you want them all out too, every one of them? >> absolutely. no, i think that trump -- we're in line with each other in terms of priorities and who goes -- >> that means you voted for trump? i'm relentless. >> let me -- you make me lose my train of thought. >> good. >> here you have a situation where you have all of the tens of thousands of children being rushed across the border. ironically, the -- something bitter irony is why are they coming now? why were there 45,000 last month as compared to a year ago? >> they've been coming for...