Hi, everyone. Happy Monday. It's 4 o'clock in New York. Let's think of it as the aftermath,

of the indictment of Donald Trump in the documents case as being on two tracks now. There's

of course the fallout from what Trump is accused of doing, what he is facing 37 criminal

counts for doing and the potentially grave national security implications of that. We'll

get to that in a minute. But there's also a legal process that has been kicked off, which

begins in earnest tomorrow when the ex-president surrenders for his court appearance. The New

York Times reports this quote, the political world's eyes will turn to the federal courthouse

in Miami. On Tuesday, when former President Trump has expected to surrender for his first

appearance on charges that he illegally retain national security documents after leaving

office that he obstructed efforts to retrieve them and that he made false statements. The extraordinary

event will be the former President's second courtroom appearance as a criminal defendant.

After his arraignment in April in a New York courthouse on state charges that he falsified

business records in connection with a hush money payment to a porn star just before the

2016 election. This one does. One of the big outstanding questions, though, ahead of tomorrow's

appearance, who will be there representing Donald Trump? NBC News reports that the actual

arraignment during tomorrow's hearing cannot proceed without legal representation by local

counsel and Trump has yet to name one. The source tells NBC News that at least one Miami

attorney has turned Trump down. But there's brand new reporting on the judge assigned to

this case, a Trump appointee, who would be familiar to any one of you who have been following

this investigation since it first burst into public view late last summer. From the New

York Times reporting on this quote, the criminal case against Trump over his hoarding of classified

documents was randomly assigned to Judge Aileen Cannon, a court official for the Southern

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