Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper back in the anchor chair. We begin today in our law

and justice lead as the federal grand jury investigating efforts by former president Donald

Jay Trump and his top allies to try to overturn the 2020 election. That grand jury has finished

meeting for the day. The big question. Will we learn in the next few minutes or hours

if the grand jury here in Washington DC has in fact indicted Donald Trump or anyone else

involved in that plot to overturn the election. This would mark the third criminal indictment

against the twice arrested twice impeached former president of the United States and

current frontrunner by far for the Republican presidential nomination. There is quite a

bit here that we just don't know about any potential charges and it is unclear when or

if the federal grand jury here in DC has even voted but based upon what we have reported

over the last three years potential charges in special counsel jacksmiths probe may relate

to Trump and his allies efforts to pressure state election officials their disinformation

campaign about the election creating fake slates of state electors and potentially inciting

the deadly January 6th Capitol in suraction among other potential charges. Just yesterday

the former president himself posted on his social media website that he expects criminal

charges to come any day now. Let's get right to CNN senior justice correspondent Evan

Pettis who is following all of the latest developments. Evan how do we expect to get word

if and when this indictment is handed up to the judge from the grand jury.

Well Jake we have a team inside the courthouse they're watching the the magistrates for proceedings

typically the way this works is the grand jury votes in an indictment the four person

and the prosecutor hand up the indictment to the judge often what they do is you don't know

the name of the person but they have the initials of that person who's being indicted is read

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