Trump due in court over charges he tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election
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00:00 I want to go to you, Ketavan in the United States.
00:02 Tell us what we can expect in the coming hours.
00:05 Well, Donald Trump is expected to arrive at the DC courthouse
00:13 this afternoon, somewhere between 3 and 4
00:15 PM local time.
00:17 And the location of that courtroom
00:18 is going to be interesting, too, because it is not
00:21 too far from the United States Capitol
00:24 where all those events of January 6 actually unfolded.
00:28 Once he arrives there, we don't know if we'll be seeing him
00:30 or if he'll be arriving by a side door
00:33 and not in the line of sight of cameras.
00:36 But once he arrives there, it's going
00:38 to be a pretty standard, pretty similar to what
00:40 we saw in Miami.
00:42 He's going to be arraigned, meaning
00:44 he's going to be processed.
00:45 His fingerprints will be taken.
00:47 And then we are expecting him to enter his plea, which
00:51 will very likely be a plea of not guilty.
00:55 And then, probably similarly to what happened in Miami,
00:58 the prosecution did not ask for any bail,
01:02 did not ask for any travel restrictions,
01:05 given the status of Donald Trump as a 2024 candidate.
01:10 So he is expected to walk out of that courthouse a free man
01:14 and return, possibly, to his property in New Jersey.
01:19 And so that will be the end of it
01:21 for what comes in Washington for this arraignment.
01:24 And then we'll be waiting for the actual date of the trial,
01:29 which is possibly going to be soon
01:32 if we listen to what the prosecution wants to do.
01:35 But it's going to be very key to look at what happens here
01:38 at the courthouse, because already big security building
01:41 up around the courthouse, because authorities are worried
01:45 that there are going to be some pro-Trump protesters
01:47 and they want to see everything unfolding very peacefully,
01:51 the way it happened in Miami for that previous indictment.
01:55 Ketavan, can you just really spell out
01:57 to us the significance of these charges?
01:59 They are unprecedented.
02:00 What we're seeing now is historic.
02:02 Absolutely.
02:07 And one of the first reasons that these charges
02:10 and this indictment, particularly, is historic
02:13 is because even though it is the third indictment for Donald
02:17 Trump, this is the first indictment
02:19 that has to do with alleged crimes
02:21 that he would have committed while he was in office,
02:24 while he was still the President of the United States.
02:27 If you think back at the indictment in the New York
02:29 hush money payments case, that happened
02:32 before he became a president.
02:34 And even the Miami indictment in the classified documents case,
02:39 that was something that had to do with things he did
02:41 once he was out of office.
02:43 This makes it a significance in itself.
02:46 But also, the charges, those conspiracy charges,
02:50 conspiracy to defraud the United States, all of this
02:53 has to do with his attempt, alleged attempt,
02:57 to overturn the 2020 election results.
03:01 So this has to do with him really
03:04 trying to interfere in one of the foundations of the US
03:09 democracy, the electoral process and the peaceful transition
03:14 of power.
03:15 Thanks to you so much, Ketavan, there in Washington for that latest update.