Im Anderson Cooper here in new york, along with jake tapper in washington. Anderson, the indictment charges donald trump with four counts, you see them there on your screen, allegedly motivated by one single goal, one that is antithetical to any functioning democracy, the peaceful transition of power. Quoting from the indictment now, quote, despite having lost the defendant, donald trump, was determined to remain in power, unquote. We learned of the indictment in the 5 00 hour today, shortly after Special Counsel made a brief statement, it is now in full. Good evening, today an indictment was unsealed. Charging Donald J Trump with conspiring to defraud the United States, conspiring to disenfranchise voters, and conspiring and attempting to obstruct an official proceeding. The indictment was issued by a grand jury of citizens here, in the district of columbia, and it sets forth the crimes charged in detail. I encourage everyone to read it in full. The attack on our nations capital, on j
bimbos. anyway, stormy daniels appears to be doing great and i m happy for that. i m happy to be able to say it. today the reason it made sense to check in on that is because todayec in the new york times e finally gotth answers on the political, financial, legal, moral, public corruption scandal that started spiraling out from stormy daniels and depending on when you start counting five years, six years, maybe as long as eight years ago finally we have started to get close to ths end. finally we have started to get answers. so first things first her real name is stephanie clifford but sheha changed her name to storm daniels, and he did that for a reason. she prefers todid be called by name she chose, so we shall call her stormy daniels or miss daniels, so let s get that out of the way. second, this story actually emerges both from ms. daniels story but also another woman s story as thwell, and her name i karen mcdougal. during the 2016 presidential campaign stormy daniel
Unpleasant experience. Thank you so much. Only talk to rosenstein but also our coverage on cnn continues mueller to see what other information that he believes he right now. Called to testify if you dont get it here. Breaking news, im wolf it is a relace hearing. Blitzer. Im going to try. As the weekends all of washington is waiting and the white house is clearly worrying what it play contain. It is to the extent. President trump is trying to torpedo the Special Counsels it is a comp hence ifr report work again calling it a witch and doj saying it is a hunt insisting there was no collusion and no obstruction and comprehensive report. Warning if mueller finds otherwise people will not stand it is transparency. For it. Sit Principle Conclusions. He is doing his best to undermine the investigation. What is the mood at the white house right now as we brace potentially for the eminent release . Thats right. I have been speaking to i can. Officials today and i spoke with a white house offici
abroad. this is a narrow indictment of things where he thinks that he can get a conviction, but donald trump is front and center, from the very first page. just the way it just raised, that trump, quote, enlisted coconspirators. he is the boss of this, he is the one in charge. in fact, let s talk about when those coconspirators because coconspirator for, i believe, yes, jeffrey clark. he is the individual who, it is alleged, and we have known about this for sometime, that trump had told him he would be acting attorney general. he would make him acting attorney general, and in fact there s even a white house visitor log in which he s identified as attorney general clark. and he i let me just read from this. th is a 0.78, paragraph 78. on january 2nd, 2021, just four days before congress s certification proceeding, coconspirator for, that is ffrey clark, tried to coerce the acting attorney genel,
guilty, our office continued to pursue investigationsnu relatedo possible campaign finance violations. when barr took over as attorney general in february 2019, six months after cohen had pleaded guilty, barr not only tried to kill the ongoing investigations but incredibly suggested that michael cohen s conviction on campaign financeic charges coul be retroactively reversed.ve barr summoned the prosecutor leading the hush money case in late february. so this is one ofg the first thing barr does when he becomes attorney general. hewh only becomes attorney genel in february. before the end of that month he summons theth lead prosecutor o thes hush money case to, quote challenge the basis of cohen s guilty plea as well as the reasoninga behind pursuing similar campaign finance charges against other f individuals. the prosecutor was told to cease all investigative work on the campaign finance allegations until the office of legal counsel, a part of main justice, determined if there was a l