but one that goes to the heart of american democracy, allan fisher force now from washington. donald trump wants to return to washington as president, but he couldn't get out of town fast enough after his most recent quarter, billions, claiming the charges against him. what about blocking his route back to the oval office? when you look at what's happening, this is a persecution of a political opponent. this was never supposed to happen in america. in a 27 minute federal court appeared and see played not guilty to 4 charges. supporters gathered outside the court house, far fewer than protected, far fewer than the trump camp expected march are probably going to get more popular . is seen a lot of them make him more boxes are right here. the former president faces for charges 3 of conspiracy to undermine the results of the 2020 election one of obstruction. his claims of fault, a fraud, and the regularities let his supporters to storm the capital, trying to stop the peaceful transfer of power. his defence, america's 1st amendment, the right of free speech. he's already been saying he's

now those are accused of racketeering and conspiracy. allan fisher reports the from atlanta, it will become an iconic image. the 1st, the former us president, commonly charged, also now the 1st to pause for the booking for to the so called monk short defendant donald john trump scaling the camera immortalized for history. the arrived early evening after the flight from his new jersey home of police calling boy escorted him to the jail where he was fingerprinted photographed and released on a $200000.00 bill and charged with stuff to defenses in georgia is what is taking place here is a travesty of justice. we did nothing wrong. i did nothing wrong. and everybody knows that i've never had such support as that goes with the other ones to what they're doing is election interference or try to interfere with an election, supporters and detractors, student side, and the punishing georgia heat for several hours. waiting, hoping to be seen, make me famous e as an innocent man. the truth will come out, my hope is it just some jail time. also the one of the drums, staunchest supporters in cong

date is allan fisher reports. a little comes calendar is filling up. the former us president find out his arraignment on election into feelings. charges in georgia will be september 6th, and this courthouse in washington. it was decided he will go on trial for conspiring to steal the 2020 presidential election on march the for next year. the decision came in a hearing that last the just over 90 minutes. total comes defense. wanted to delay the process by more than 2 years. same with millions of documents to review. they wanted a trial date and april 2026. the prosecution wanted to proceed on january the 2nd, next year, the judge tanya, chuck and said both dates were unacceptable. both, i would cite the normal windows for shadowing a trial. donald trump's team accused the prosecution of pursuing a show trial, but left without making any comment on the outcome of the decision by judge tanya took can queued up and the 2024 republican presidential nomination fight. the trial starts the day before super tuesday, when voters in more than a dozen states cast

thank you very much. allan fisher live outside the courthouse there in georgia, atlanta, georgia. lets check in with was in jordan. i was outside the fulton county jail. tell us about the seeing where you are was and what's going to happen there once donald trump rice well, once donald trump arrives here at the fulton county jail, it should be a very short and routine process, at least from the shirts or perspective fingerprints. a mug shot, if there any other legal niceties that need to be ironed out before bill of $200000.00 is officially posted. fill up, be held for a few minutes in order for that to be done. but we don't know whether we're going to see him actually entering and leaving the jail from the main entrance, which is where we are. there is a 2nd entrance on the joining street where it is possible that the former president will be brought in that way. primarily for security reasons, the free trial where we are has been close off all day pro to automotive traffic. only people can come in on foot where they're members of the media, local residents of a small neighborhood, ju

say, defended those steps wearing his as usual red tie and dark suit. allan, i wonder, i wouldn't want to go back to the island fisher, who's outside the court room for a forest. allen, it's, this is the point of which things start to really get interesting, isn't it? because there's a lot of, i've been a lot of speculation about how this trial is going to go on how, what both sides are going to be saying. but what we're going to be seeing in the next few hours or so is just the procedural elements of this, of a former us president being indicted, handing himself in to court officials getting as much mug shot taken like any other defendant the the monks show thing is incredibly important because it's never happened before. this is the 1st time a former president who has been charged with a criminal offense. and remember, the trump is the 1st one that has happened to will have his mug shot taken. this will become an iconic image. if you think about famous americans, you have seen in the, in those pictures in the past, you think of franks and that's what you think of out to pulling a note to that list. you're going to

we can't let this happen in america while our fisher joins us from outside of the federal court house in washington, where donald trump was rain. allan give us a sense of what the former president faced earlier in that court room behind you. so donald trump would like to return to washington, but he'd like to the ton to washington as president. that's why he's running his new presidential campaign. donald trump would like to stand in front of a judge and take the oath of office, but today he stood in front of a judge and had to plead not guilty to for federal charges. 3 of conspiracy, one of obstruction, all linked to his election denial is the fact that he believes that there was widespread fraud. that there were voters irregularities that he was cheated out of the 2020 election in the process. the kitchen, i've decided to press ahead with charges that say that was a conspiracy. he knew what he was doing. he was trying to stop the peaceful transfer of power in america. he was trying to defraud american voters out of their legal rights to pick the next week. he was in court for just 27 minutes and he play not guilty. he then laughed