Happening now, Donald Trump is on the ground in Florida on this, the eve of his historic

arraignment on 37 federal criminal charges.

The former president's team making a last minute scramble to hire more lawyers to defend

him against grave allegations of mishandling classified documents and concealing them from investigators.

Also this hour authorities are raising urgent new concerns about security right now at

the Miami courthouse as Trump and his allies are encouraging supporters to protest

there tomorrow. The mayor says the city is prepared but our federal and local law

enforcement officials doing enough to keep everyone safe.

Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world.

I'm Wolf Blitzer, you're in the situation room. just ahead of a federal criminal arraignment unlike any other.

The lead defendant Donald Trump has holed up right now at his golf club outside of Miami

with his high stakes court appearance less than 24 hours away.

See in a senior legal affairs correspondent Paula Reed is on the ground for us in Miami just

outside the federal courthouse there.

Paula, how is the former president preparing for his arrest and

arraignment tomorrow?

Well, well, if the former president is expected to meet with his team this afternoon

to discuss legal strategy.

Right now the team is being led by Todd Blanche, but we know they want to bring on additional

attorneys after the departure, pretty much all the lawyers who have represented Trump in this case so far.

Now it's unclear though if he will have his final legal team in place tomorrow.

We're also learning that the Special Counsel is bringing in two prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's Office down here in Miami.

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