Good evening everyone. I'm Abby Philip in Washington.

And I'm Caitlin Collins in Miami. This is CNN's continuing coverage of the arrest and

a raiment of Donald Trump.

And there is really no way to overstate the importance of this day in American history.

It is the very first time that a former president of the United States has been arrested and

arraigned this time on 37 federal counts of allegedly mishandling classified documents.

But in typical fashion, Donald Trump is downplaying the severity of those charges that Abby mentioned

against him, calling them fabricated and quote, an evil and heinous abuse of power. Returning

tonight to his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, where we should note there was

an audio recording of him talking about classified documents while he was there two years

ago.

Tonight he held a campaign fundraiser and addressed his cheering supporters with a

litany of lies against his perceived enemies. We begin our coverage this hour with CNN's

Evan Perez, our senior justice correspondent. He's here with me in Miami and our correspondent

Christian Holmes who is in Bedminster covering the former president. Tonight I want to start

with Evan because he was inside the courtroom when Trump was arraying today. What did you

see? Of course, not just what happened in that courtroom, but also what we saw after

as he was making that stop at a restaurant near Miami.

Yeah, I was quite the split screen summation, frankly, of Donald Trump's day, right?

Inside the courtroom, he was, he seemed dejected. He was sitting there while he was waiting for

the judge to appear. He was sitting there with his arms folded, twiddling his thumbs a few

times talking to his attorney. Not the performer that we are used to seeing. Certainly when he

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