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Welcome to cnn news central. 24 hours from now we expect to see donald trump on his way to Federal Court here in washington scheduled to make his First Court Appearance after term prosecutors charged him with four separate counts in a sweeping indictment. Special counsel alleges trump was central in a plot to overturn the 2020 election. The indictment also says he had help coconspirators. It repeatedly references six coconspirators. Cnn has been able to identify five of those six. They are former Trump Lawyers rudy giuliani, john eastman and sidney powell, former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark and protrump lawyer kenneth chesebro. I want to go to zach cohen. Tell us what we should expect to see tomorrow and included in that what kind of security should we expect to see . Yeah, the expectation right now is that donald trump will be in d. C. In person and have to travel to the courthouse for this appearance, and, look, federal agencies and local Law Enforcement have been preparing for this possibility for weeks now, but theyre continuing to coordinate, the Secret Service already put out a Statement Warning of increased traffic coinciding with trumps appearance in Court Tomorrow and, you know, its a weird dance. You have the local police departments, npd in d. C. Is the lead agency but Secret Service, a federal agency is the chief protective entity of the president so all these Law Enforcement agencies are all talking to each other ahead of trumps arrival in d. C. Expected to arrive in d. C. And the courthouse tomorrow. Looking back to the miami Court Appearance there were expectations of thousands. The numbers ended up being much smaller than that. Well see what turns out to be the case tomorrow, zach cohen in washington, thanks. Brianna. We have alana treen new the president s new Jersey Property and norm eisen in studio, Special Counsel for the house judiciary in trumps first impeachment trial. Norm, what is your initial reaction here to this latest indictment . Brianna, its powerful. It states the case when taken together with what we know publicly that i do think establishes likely proof Beyond A Reasonable Doubt against donald trump. Its simple. You can describe the story of desperation, pushing doj, pushing state officials, getting fraudulent electoral certificate, using them to squeeze mike pence and then exploiting the violence in one sentence. The same with the legal claims, defrauding the United States, obstructing an official proceeding and trying to take away the civil rights of everybody who voted for the rightful president , joe biden, so the simplicity gives it power and finally i would say its historic. Weve never seen anything like this before in american history, particularly with three major criminal case, federal and state and a fourth one expected on the way. Remarkable times in our nation. How does this one factor in the three to you . Well, its complex in the three so far, because is it the most important, do you think . Yes, i would say its the most important and ill tell you why. The thing that underlies the american experiment, the reason that all over the world i served as an ambassador and wherever i went people admired our country was our democracy. The legitimacy that the votes of americans give to the way our government operates. This case of the three that have been filed. The other two are very serious goes most directly to the heart of that democracy. Weve never had an attempted selfcoup in america before. Its something you see elsewhere in the world, so it is, i think, the most important and it also is likely to go first because alvin bragg has said, hey, ill step back in effect. Oh, you think it will go first. Well come back to that. Alana, we know that the former president s team has been coordinating its public response, theyre talking to surrogates and talking to gop lawmakers knowing that theyre going to be speaking to the media. Now you have some new reporting that top fox executives are trying to get trump to commit to the first debate on their network. What more can you tell us . Reporter well, thats right, brianna. Kristen holmes and i have learned donald trump on tuesday night shortly after he learned that he was being indicted in the Special Counsels case regarding his efforts to overturn the election dined with former fox News Executives including jay wallace as well as foxs chief executive Suzanne Scott and encouraged him to attend their president ial debate in milwaukee later this month. But we were told donald trump is noncommittal in line with his posture on these debates so far. Hes both privately and publicly signaled that he will likely skip one or both of the upcoming two president ial primary debates and pointed to his command at the polls and his frontrunner status right now in the republican field for wanting to not share the stage with his rivals, however, one trump adviser previously told cnn, quote, why would we debate . That would be stupid to go out with that kind of lead so thats one trump advisers outlook on it but im also told by other advisers, there is some concern about him not being president in one of these debates and worry his absence from the stage could give a lower tier candidate or another one of his rivals the opportunity for a breakout moment. But i also want to note that Ronna Mcdaniel as well as david bossie in charge of the Debate Committee both recently dined with donald trump At Bedminster at well and encouraged him to participate in the debates. During that dinner he was also noncommittal. Now, just going back to the charges about the indictment i think its really intestg to see how Donald Trumps team is messaging on this and what theyre defending, what their lines of defense will be for donald trump. We know that john lauro, one of Donald Trumps attorneys has leaned into the argument that donald trump was engaging in his First Amendment right of free speech to when he was pushing those election claims and Election Fraud claims. Lets listen to what he had to say. This is the first time that the First Amendment has been criminalized. Its the first time that a sitting president is attacking a political opponent on First Amendment grounds and basically making it criminal to state your position and to engage in political got to give you a little reporter now, brianna, clearly we do not know if john lauro or Donald Trumps legal team will use this defense at a potential trial, but it is what theyre putting out in the public narrative and its what they want voters to be thinking about. But if you look at the indictment that jack smith filed last night youll see that one of the key arguments is that donald trump knew that he had lost the election. He was told repeatedly by those around him including those in his own government and yet he still continued to peddle the election lies and the idea that the election was stolen, brianna. Certainly does. Alana treene. You hear her point out everything trump is dealing with. Will he participate in the debate . He blew off a Republican Debate before and then he didnt do it again so well see how he approaches that. He has so much going on and then he has these three indictments and you actually think that this is correct, this latest indictment will go first . I do. Why . Ill tell you why. Brianna, the first case at the moment is alvin braggs case for 2016 Election Interference. People refer to it as a Hush Money Case but its really a case for fabricating documents over 30 counts of fabricating documents to cover up Hush Money Payments that could have cost donald trump the 2016 election after access hollywood. Thats an Election Interference too. A grateway drug for what smith is prosecuting. Alvin bragg said i have a march 2024 trial date. Thats ahead of judge cannon and says if the interests of justice require, im willing to give that up, so i think jack smith is going to take him up on it. I think judge Tanya Chechkin as dealt with these fights over documents. Theyre going to say, fine, lets go. There is no reason this simple streamlined case cant go in that march 2024 time frame go fast. Thats what smith wants. He said speedy trial. March, as i recall, is a very busy time in the electoral calendar. Well see you, norm. You remind me all the times you predicted me correctly. I wont say youre wrong. Well see where it goes. Norm eisen, thanks so much. Alayna treene, thanks for your time. Congresswoman zoe lofgren, thanks for taking time this afternoon. Sure. You, of course, were on the january 6th select committee. Its been eight months since that panel finished its own investigation and sent criminal referrals to the Justice Department. In your view did the Special Counsel take too long to act after that . Well, no, i think hes moved promptly. I do think the Special Counsel should have been appointed before he was, but once he was appointed, i think hes moved pretty quickly and i think our committee was helpful. We read quite a bit of it as the evidence we uncovered. In terms of the committees work with the doj, should the january 6th committee have worked more in concert, for instance, sharing Interview Transcripts with witnesses to propel that time line faster . No, were a separate branch of government. Were not an arm of the Executive Branch including the department of justice. We made our Information Available to the world, to the public as well as the department of justice, all of the evidence that we compiled we made publicly available and, of course, the department of justice had access to that. They obviously have had to reinterview the individuals that we interviewed and i understand that. They cant just rely on our interviews and they were also refusing to talk to us. Its pretty obvious they talked to the former Chief Of Staff mark meadows and they certainly talked to the former Vice President , who we were unable to interview. Just for folks at home, here we are, its some 2 1 2 years after the events of january 6th as well as the election of november 2020. Were deep into the 2024 Election Cycle here. Thats not your fault. Thats just the way the calendar works but you can see how in the eyes of some voters theyll say, wait a second. Why did it take so long. Why given the evidence you had and to your point the doj could have appointed a Special Counsel further, do you see a danger here that because its in the Election Cycle that will weaken the case and add to at least the argument, the accusation that this is political . Well, obviously it isnt political. The Special Counsel is independent from the Attorney General, and the president , President Biden has made clear he is hands off. He is not political. In fact, he has prosecuted both democrats and republicans in past. I think this will just in the regular course of business be tried. I would hope that the trial is sooner rather than later, justice delayed is justice denied but thats going to be up to the judge. This, you know, application of the Law And Justice cant be postponed simply because some of the accused and avoid being held to account. So, this will proceed ordinary course. The expresident , the defendant, is entitled to assumption of innocence unless he is convicted and hopefully that determination is forthcoming. There was some interruption in the line but we heard your final thought, in effect that the former president cannot be above the law. Thanks for joining us this afternoon. Bring an that, certainly a conversation well keep going. Yes, it sure will. Ahead this hour on cnn news central, the latest donald Trump Indictment is accusing the former president of Organizing Fraud Lent Slates of electors in seven targeted states. 16 people in michigan are charged separately in the scheme. The Secretary Of State there will be joining us. Plus, a surprising announcement from canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. What we are learning about his separation from his wife sophie. For a limited time, get two pairs of prive r Revaux Frames from jamie foxx for only 89. 95. Book your exexam today. More shopping . You should watch your spending honey. 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Hundreds of millions of dollars in fact, nevertheless these hosts are Still Standing by the former president. Are we now living in america where equal justice is dead . The equal application of our laws is a thing of the past . That were the shredding of our constitution. Were witnessing this this realtime in front of our own eyes. This is only the beginning of politicians putting other politicians and their families in prison. Sad we had to go down this road but this is where we are and now we have to finish it. Finish it . Cnns oliver darcy joins me now. You reported this for some time. Obviously fox news paid an enormous financial price for this and another case is coming its way. What is the strategy, if any, here in terms of handling the lies at the center of these indictments against trump and, well, the lies that have sometimes been shared on their network . Yeah, jim, youre seeing some really dishonest Dark Rhetoric in right wing media in the aftermath of this latest indictment. Theyre really trying to do to jack smith the Special Counsel here what they did to robert mueller, which is to paint him as a dishonest man, to question his integrity and really what youre seeing is a portrait being painted in right wing media of a weaponized doj thats being wielded by an evil biden to target and imprison his political opponents. Of course, thats not whats happening but thats what millions of americans are seeing when they turn on fox news or newsmax or oan. Its what theyre hearing when they listen to talk radio and what theyre seeing on their social feeds if they subscribe some of these right wing institutions like breitbart and so its really disturbing, but its important to know because so Many Americans are living in this world where biden is head of a crime family and hunter biden is committing crimes and getting away with them while trump is being prosecuted by the doj and its worrisome because this is the kind of rhetoric, i think, that leads people to no longer have faith in their institutions and, you know, you saw what happened on january 6th when people lose confidence in their government. Yeah, well, Charles Ramsey made the point last hour, hes concerned about whether that could potentially fuel violence as well. Oliver, thanks so much. Brianna. All right, jim, lets zero in on this Fake Electors Scheme Aspect of this indictment. The scheme encompassed seven state, seven targeted states that trump lost and the goal according to the indictment was to submit illegitimate protrump electors to congress in order to, quote, create a fake controversy at the certification proceeding. Now, one of the states at the heart of that plot mentioned dozens of times in the indictment was michigan and we are joined by a key official who stood in the way of that effort, that is michigan Secretary Of State jocelyn benson. Secretary benson, thank you so much for being with us today and spending some time with us. 16 Fake Electors have been charged as you are well aware by your Attorney General there in michigan. Jack smith refers to the michigan Fake Electors several times in this indictment. I know youve read that. He does not label them, however, as coconspirators. Should that be a concern for criminal prosecution of those folks in your state . Not necessarily, and thanks for having me and focusing on really the extraordinary charges, not just at the federal level but at the state level. These were felony charges filed against 16 individuals in michigan. They allegedly knowingly sought to defraud the federal government and the State Government lying about who what was the right official to receive the Electoral College votes of our state so i have confidence in the process in michigan, that Legal Process is going to play out. I wont necessarily expecting to see indictments at the federal level especially when we see the indictments in this case so far being really aimed at the top of the National Scheme and the coordinated National Effort to disrupt the electoral process. So, if your Attorney General does succeed in these charges, these 16 individuals who jack smith says may have been tricked, that was part of whats in the indictment. Some of them, weve heard some say that they actually didnt even realize they were Fake Electors. They may have been tricked. They could be locked up on these charges if your state is successful here. Would you be okay with that . Well, i think well have to see how the Legal Process proceeds. We know weve seen already publicly video footage of individuals showing up to the capitol claiming, the State Capitol in michigan on the day in which we were finalizing the Electoral College votes in the State Capitol claiming on the outside of the capitol they were the rightful electors so theres a lot of evidence, an abundance of evidence i would argue that the individuals involved in the scheme in michigan knowingly sought to interfere with the process, knowingly sought to lie about the winner of michigans Electoral College votes and there are Many Republican officials who at that time which was again after the certification of the vote, after legal avenues had been pursued and dismissed, they declined to be a part of this scheme and that should have been a sign right there that something was up. So, again, im confident in the lehman process as it plays out and confident where necessary justice will be served against any and everyone in this unamerican scheme to unseat the rightfully elected president of the United States. Yesterday Matthew Duperno was arraigned for Unlawful Possession of Voting Machines in your state of michigan in this on going investigation with attempts by Trump Supporters to breach them in multiple states. Have you spoken to federal prosecutors about this Voting Machine breach . Do you think this is something theyre looking into . I have spoken with many folks at the state and federal level about all of the issues involving the election in the 2020 process including this. And its important to note for our purposes in michigan it was state law that was violated. State law prohibits the unauthorized access of Voting Machines. Thats what is being you are sued and there was an arduous factfinding process that went into it so well see what plays out at the federal level. That usually involves if its a multistate conspiracy which, again, those investigators may determine. But for us here in michigan were focusing on the violations of state law which is quite clear about who can and can have access to them. Do you have any indication that theyre focusing on the multistate effort going beyond michigan . Yes, i believe the investigation at the federal level is broad and is meticulous and is looking at all the ways in which democracy was attacked in 2020. And so i would expect everything is on the table, every law that was violated. Efty tactic tried and as it should be because we also have to look to the future and make sure that every tactic that was tried that there is just cyst for those who broke the law in going down that path. Otherwise, we have to prepare here in michigan and elsewhere for those tactics to be tried again which would cause additional disruption on future elections and would be further uncalled for. I was going to ask if you had been subpoenaed on this issue of the Voting Machines, but it seems like that was just part of the broad things that you discussed before the Special Counsel. Well, my office is the statewide level, we dont have possession of the Voting Machines so if there was detailed conversations of that, it would have taken place perhaps with many of the other officials in michigan who were more closely connected to that part of the process at the local level. Many of whom we know did meet with the Special Counsel so remains to be seen. We know in all cases theyre ongoing but i do expect and i think all the indictments weve seen so far suggest that we will see full accountability for every crime that was committed in the 2020 Election Cycle. 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Echoing what he said as he declared his candidacy for being president and this was pence responding to trumps past indictments, as well. I think the unprecedented indictment of a former president of the United States on a Campaign Finance issue is an outrage, and it appears to millions of americans to be nothing more than a political prosecution. This indictment contains serious charges, and i cannot defend what is alleged. I cant believe that politics didnt play some role here. If i had the privilege to be president of the United States, were going to clean house at the department of justice. So that was pence then. We hear what pence is saying now. Lets discuss it with jeff zeleny, jessica dean and eva mckend with us, as well. Pretty interesting. Hes sort of creeping along as more information and evidence comes out. I wonder what you thought of what you heard today because even though he said he wish it hadnt come to this he also seems to say trump broke the law. He did and this is something he clearly does not relish talking about. This is not going to win him the republican nomination which he is running for but i think this is also an important time to point out, these are different indictments. And his responses there were to different indictments, so this is without a doubt the most serious of the three indictments. It is talking about the peaceful transfer of power or in this case the lack thereof, and so certainly he is much more sharper in his thoughts and really has sort of in a crescendo getting louder talking about this because he was at the center. Its important when we talk about the indictments, there might be Indictment Fatigue out there. These are different indictments and this is the most serious, the Trump Campaign knows this. Thats why hes reacting as he is. To be clear in this indictment, pence is not just an outside observer. He is central to the Special Counsels case and a number of references to him including the Indictment Reading at one point, quote, as reflected in the Vice President s contemporaneous notes here. He is by the way, this is Something Different from the january 6th committees investigation because pence did not take part in that but did take part in this so hes very much in it. Hes very much in it and such a unique situation. If we just kind of can zoom out for a second, you know, i think to jeffs point there is Indictment Fatigue and keep saying unprecedented but think about this. We are in the middle of a gop president ial primary with a former president running against his Vice President. This indictment has come down and were asking the Republican Voters to weigh in and say, is this okay . Are you okay with this, and pence is there in the middle as jeff just pointed out being even so much more sharper than we have heard from him, and because he is in the middle of all of this and we have heard that line about the constitution. That seems to be in terms of his messaging where hes going with this. I dont put myself in front of the constitution. No person who does should be allowed to be president. But, again, i keep going back to the numbers within the republican party. Those pollinnuers that showed from the New York Times and cnn that just 17 of people believe trump committed any crime so its not exactly where the of gop voters. Yeah. Thats where they are. Its a fascinating snapshot and tells you everything you need to know, eva, youre out there on the trail and i think that poll tells you why youre seeing what youre seeing. Trump has what should be and certainly in a General Election is a huge vulnerability and yet for republican candidates who are looking for something to get him on, on the primary stage, its a third rail for them. They cant really touch it. Oh, absolutely. And even in the former Vice President s comments, you see him hedging a bit, well, hes innocent until proven guilty. Let this play out in the courts. And that is because even the voters that i speak to that have an appetite for considering a different candidate because they dont think that trump can win in a General Election, they arent sort of explicitly hostile towards trump and so they are trying to, you know, mirror what theyre hearing from voters. You go to a tim scott town hall, for instance, and you hear folks still asking about the 2020 election. Is there going to be fraud this this election one woman in New Hampshire asked for instance. Because they believe there was fraud in the past. When is there going to be more is what theyre asking . Exactly and so that is what these candidates have to speak to. One strategy seems to be is try to avoid trump to the extent that they can. So we saw the former Vice President today leading with talking about inflation, senator Scott On Friday will be in arizona on the border talking about immigration. To the extent that they can, they are trying to pivot and talk about other issues. Listen, it shows that disinformation works, right . That trumps lies about the election have influenced a significant, in fact, the larger portion of Republican Voters and still buy it and now you have a separate tract where you have the leading republican candidate for president saying that the entire judicial system is, well, i should say criminal Justice System is aligned against him. If disinformation worked against the electoral process perhaps it works as well against the Justice System and has enormous consequences, jeff, jessica, eva, thanks. 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You will speak to the former speaker congresswoman nancy pelosi next hour who is there that day. Speaker emerita. Donald trump is entitled to the Presumption Of Innocence and a fair trial, et cetera, et cetera, but im interested in her nonpaper feelings about this given the fact she was there and her life was threatened. We all remember the video of the crowd yelling, nancy, nancy and some people testifying that they intended to do her harm. So i want to hear what she thinks about the charges. Listen, one thing about in that always amazed me, her life was in danger, democrats lives were in danger but so were republican lawmakers and said as much afterwards yet you see speaker who followed Nancy Pelosi Kevin Mccarthy has very much metamorphosized if you might call that his positions. Right. We saw right after the insurrection Speaker Mccarthy saying along the lines, condemnation of donald trump and there was also that audiotape of him saying im through with this guy. Im over him. But he obviously has changed his tune and well ask pelosi about that as well and get her response. She also wants to talk about taiwan. It was a year ago she went to taiwan. I dont have to tell you, jim, that the crisis between and the tensions between the United States and china are even worse now than they were then. Yeah, and, of course, responded to that visit with major exercise around the island. The lead is just a few minutes away. We should all be watching. Now to some other headlines were watching. A russian drone strike early in morning Hit Facilities in odesa, ukraine, and damaged a Grain Warehouse and ignited a large fire. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy calling this an attack on global Food Security and urging the International Community to intervene. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he and his wife Sophie Gregoire are separating. He married her in 2005 and have three children. 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Were at the jcc, Jewish Community center not far from The Tree Of Life synagogue where that horrific shooting happened nearly five years ago. And for the first time, really as a united front, were seeing nearly three dozen of survivors of the shooting, Family Members of those who were killed, Police Officers as well, theyre standing as one behind me speaking to the press about this verdict. And, brianna, the families ab those impacted most directly, they havent had a chance to speak to the media. They havent had a chance to speak publicly besides what many of them have said on the stand. And this is been you could tell, cathartic to say what theyve been saying which is partly relief that this entire nightmare is finally coming to an end. And we keep Hearing Themes of justice as well. Take a listen to one Family Member of a victim and a survivor of that day from moments ago. I feel like a weight has been lifted and i could breathe a sigh of relief. The purpose of Death Penalty is not so much punishing, as cutting off the person from society. Eliminating the evil, taking away the risk. The potential for infection and the possibility of further harm to the citizens. Reporter an the other thing, brianna, that ill just emphasize, were hearing directly from the families themselves about this Death Penalty sentence. And one person noted that the reason it was important to many families here to have that particular sentence come down is not necessarily because it is specifically death, but one survivor, carol black, said that this crime deserved the most intense punishment available under u. S. Law. That is the Death Penalty. That is the federal Death Penalty in this case. And that is what were hearing inside. So once were done with you well continue to listen to incredible testimonies after the Death Sentence has been handed down for the pittsburgh synagogue shooter. Brianna. Well let you go down that. And you could bring that back. 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