Vote and stay in power. Special counsel jack smith wrote in the indictment, quote, the defendant widely disseminated his false claims of Election Fraud for months, despite the fact that he knew and in many cases had been informed directly that they were not true. The defendants knowingly false statements were integral to his criminal plans to defeat the federal government function, obstruct the certification and interfere with others rights to vote and have their votes counted. The indictment also mentions six alleged coconspirators. They are unnamed, but nbc news them to be rudy giuliani, attorney john eastman, attorney Sidney Powell, former Justice Department official jeffrey clark, and attorney kenneth chesbro. Sixth is unclear but is described as a political consultant who helped implement the socalled fake electors scheme. Special counsel jack smith says he wants to bring this case to trial soon. In this case, my office will seek a speedy trial so that our evidence can be tested i
Investigation. Also tonight, dramatic video captures a Brazen Ukraine drone attack on a major Russian Naval base leaving a kremlin warship badly damaged as it was towed from the black sea. And olympic gold medallist simone biles returns to the spotlight. The gymnastics star attempting to make a comeback this weekend, two years after taking a Mental Health break. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer and youre in the situation room. We begin with donald trump entering two not guilty pleas within 24 hours. The former president of the United States just filed his response to additional charges in the classified Documents Case aday after historic spectacle of his january 6 arraignment here in washington. Cnns senior crime and justice reporter Katelyn Polantz is following this for us. Remind us what the additional maralago charges are all about. Well, those are charges we do know about because donald trump was hit with them about a week ago.
Since the Tokyo Olympics. Were following these major olympic stories and many more, all coming in here to cnn news central. New evidence ukraine is growing its capability to strike russian targets them video obtained by cnn appears to show a Ukrainian Unmanned sea drone, camera right on top there, approaching a russian landing ship at a Russian Naval base. You see the drone creep closer and closer. The screen goes black. Thats likely the moment it hit the ship and exploded. You can see here later video of that russian ship being towed near that naval base. And it is listing notably to the lefthand side. Cnns Nick Paton Walsh is live in zaporizhzhia, ukraine. Tell us what are ukrainian Officials Saying about this . And is russia acknowledging a ukrainian strike on one of its ships here . Reporter yeah, russia is suggesting the attack was repelled, but russian bloggers are talk about how one compartment of the Amphibious Assault ship was indeed flooded by this blast. Another analyst call
Meeting at this moment, The Grand Jury investigating donald trump for the events surrounding january 6th. The former president says that he is assuming that he will be indicted again. Could we hear a decision from that grand jury today . We are getting new video from the front lines showing ukrainian counter offensive just as the russian officials are making changes to stop ukrainian drones after a new drone strike on moscow overnight. Photos showing the boxes piled up inside of the man accused of being the gilgo beach Serial Killer, and the look into the life of the man due in court today, and we are also hearing from the soontobe exwife. Im sara sidner with john berman, and all of that is coming up right now on cnn news central. It could be as soon as today, the twice impeached and twice arrested former president of the United States could be indicted for a third time. The federal grand jury investigating Donald Trumps efforts to overturn the 2020 Election Results is meeting right th
Someone with the temperament of donald trump is not in charge of the law in our country. Because you would be in jail. After all those years of lock her up, trump and his rapidly shrinking inner circle dont see the hypocrisy of whining about the possibility of trump going to prison. As his lawyers test out long shot defenses for the serious charges he faces. And vindication is complete in tennessee. The two expelled state reps win special elections to keep their seats. One of them, justin j. Pearson, joins me tonight. We begin tonight with one of the most striking aspects of Donald Trumps third arraignment yesterday. Besides the fact that a former president of the United States has been arraigned for crimes three times. And it is that all of his frenzied truth social posts and for all of his republican speechifying and about political prosecution, the man who showed up in a washington courtroom on thursday was basically alone. None of his family came to support him, no melania, no ivan