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Laura Coates Live

The arrest and arraignment of Donald Trump

Laura Coates Live

CNN

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4.22.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Former President Donald Trump pleads not guilty to 37 federal charges for allegedly mishandling classified documents. Our panel discusses how the trial will play out in court, and several of Trump’s former attorneys join to respond to the charges he is facing. Plus, co-defendant and Trump aide Walt Nauta is processed at the same Miami courthouse. His arraignment is now set for June 27. And, CNN Reporter Daniel Dale fact checks the 10 false or misleading claims in Trump’s post-arrest speech.

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0:00.0

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

0:12.0

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

0:19.8

a raiment of Donald Trump.

0:22.3

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

0:27.0

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

0:31.8

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

0:40.5

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

0:45.4

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

0:51.4

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

0:55.5

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

1:00.1

ago.

1:01.1

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

1:05.2

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

1:10.7

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

1:15.6

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

1:20.2

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

1:23.8

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

1:29.0

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

1:31.8

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

1:39.4

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

1:44.2

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

1:50.6

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

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