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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 ...

Months he closed several prominent investigations into members of congress without charges. so those included john enson of nestled da, a republican, tom dell lay of texas, another republican, jerry lewis of california another republican, allen mull a han a democrat and don young of alaska. yes, he's had prominent run-ins with republican politicians but has also been very firmly on the other side of those scales of justice, closing investigations against prominent republicans as well when he thought that they had lingered too long and that there was nothing there worth prosecuting. >> one of t...

>> you think about the precedence on this. michael graham pleads guilty, and then he's got to go. a previous new jersey democratic senator named harrison williams, like in 1980, he ended up fighting, trying to stay in the senate while they brought bribery charges against him. he got convicted and expelled. john enson resigned rather than even face the ethics committee. so there's no clear precedent on when they go, but if he stays, there is the question of all the power he's got in the senate. he's the ranking democrat on the foreign relations committee. he is going to step down presumably fro...

A couple of michael graham said the same thing a couple months ago. but he stepped down. that is certainly a potential option here for senator menendez. the difference is senator menendez is generally not somebody who is going to give up. he's been fight thing case for quite a while. he's known for several years the doj was investigating him. so the idea he will step down immediately is unlikely but i can see it in the next weeks or months. >> you think about the precedence on this. michael graham pleads guilty and then he's got to go. a previous new jersey democratic senator named harrison wi...

At the time when jimmy carter was sworn in as the 39th president of the united states. if jason carter is elected in the fall, he would be the first carter since jimmy to successfully win political office. his father, jack, ran an unsuccessful campaign in 2006 against john enson. jason carter has made it clear he doesn't share all of his grandfather's view. but a sign that the president's role in the campaign is growing a bit, he and rosaline are holding a june weekend for donors in georgia. >> jason is a very smart young man. he's very aware of the problems all over georgia and i think he's g...