Trump pleads not guilty to mishandling classified intelligence documents
Anderson Cooper 360
CNN
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🗓️ 14 June 2023
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
Former President Trump pleaded not guilty in a Miami, Florida federal courthouse to 37 charges relating to his alleged mishandling of classified documents. During the hearing, Trump had a scowl on his face while he sat hunched over with his arms crossed. Former federal prosecutor and CNN Chief Legal Analyst Laura Coates tells Anderson Cooper if today’s arraignment went as she expected.
Plus, journalist and author Carl Bernstein joins AC360 to discuss this historical day that saw Trump become the first former President to be arraigned in a federal court and the first to face federal charges.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening from New York at the end of yet another day like none this country has ever seen before. |
| 0:07.0 | Good evening from Washington, Anderson. |
| 0:10.0 | And yes, today was yet another first courtesy of the first president ever to be impeached twice. |
| 0:17.0 | The first ever to be found liable after leaving office for sexual abuse. |
| 0:22.0 | And the first president ever to face state felony charges. |
| 0:26.0 | Today, Donald Trump also, that's just those are three. |
| 0:30.0 | I have a new one. |
| 0:31.0 | Donald Trump also became the first ever to be arrested and arraigned in federal court also on felony charges. |
| 0:39.0 | 37 in all, and I want to put them on the screen. |
| 0:42.0 | They include 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information. |
| 0:46.0 | Three of withholding or concealing documents in a federal investigation plus false statements and conspiracy to instruct justice. |
| 0:54.0 | We're showing them because for all the spectacle this is what the day will be remembered for years from now. |
| 1:00.0 | Donald Trump made the short trip today by motorcade from his Miami golf resort to the federal courthouse downtown where small but vocal crowd greeted him. |
| 1:09.0 | Inside after being booked and electronically fingerprinted, Mr. Trump was arraigned and his attorney pleaded him not guilty to all 37 charges. |
| 1:19.0 | His co-defendant, body man, Walt Notta, entered no plea. |
| 1:23.0 | The former president then left the courthouse in a slow speed procession. |
| 1:30.0 | Not unlike what we saw in the OJ case, slow speed. |
| 1:34.0 | He was under orders not to speak with Notta about the case, although we could speak to him about other things. |
| 1:40.0 | Not to speak to potential witnesses to be named later by prosecutors. |
| 1:45.0 | Not to, however, was by the former president's side during a stop on the way to the airport at a restaurant in Little Havana, where a group of clergy gathered around the former president and prayed for him. |
| 1:56.0 | A source telling CNN the location was chosen because the Cuban community knows, quote, all too well about political persecution. |
| 2:04.0 | The former president clearly trying to link himself to people who have actually been persecuted in Cuba. |
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