president with multiple crimes. and for the first time since this investigation began america heard directly from the man in charge, special counsel jack smith. today, and indictment was unseed. charging donald j trump with felony violations of our national security laws as well as participating in a conspiracy to obstruct justice. adherence to the rule of law is the bedrock principle of the department of justice in our nation s commitment to the rule of law sits an example for the world. we have one set of laws in this country, and they ve let everyone. the 38 count indictment against trump and his personal and now codefendant walt nauta accuses the former president of 30 accounts of willful retention of national defense information, three counts of withholding or concealing documents in a federal investigation, two counts of false statements, and one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice. according to the indictment the classified documents trump stored in these boxes
a federal grand jury indicting former president donald trump for allegedly violaing the espionage act, conspiracy to obstruct and making false statements in connection to more than 100 classified documents he retained and did not turn over after leaving office. the former president facing criminal charges months after being indicted by manhattan s district attorney in connection to a hush money scandal. all while widening his lead in republican presidential primary polls in the race to face joe biden in 2024. a lot of developments in just the last few hours. at this hour, there are big changes to the trump legal team. the lawyer who spoke for mr. trump throughout last night and this morning is resigning, along with his fellow attorney, replaced by todd blanche as leader of the upcoming defense in federal court. breaking this hour, trump writing in a social media post that walt nauta, who worked at mar-a-lago, after working in the trump white house, is also under indictmen
360. the former president stays silent a day after exclusive cnn reporting that he is on tape admitting he kept a classified document about a potential strike on iran. also tonight, how president biden is doing after a tumble on stage while visiting the air force academy. new details on what caused it. later, a conversation with a sherpa guide, who saved a climber barely clinging to life in the so-called death zone on mount everest. good evening. we beginning with a story about the former president caught on tape and admitting to people without the proper security clearance that he kept a classified document, and might even have been waving it around, or waving it around as he spoke. we re going talk right now with kaitlan collins and cnn s alyssa farah griffin, who join me now. earlier today, former president trump was shouted questions about cnn s exclusive reporting, did not answer those questions. what does it say to you? this is the former president who speaks ou
a not so perfect phone call, former president trump recorded pressuring michigan canvassers to not certify the vote in 2020. what he said and the new details according to the detroit news, just moments from now, we ll get to that. and new video from the southern border of the united states, a mother and her crying child struggling to cross the rio grande river, the texas national guard this morning is denying claims that it ignored her calls for help. and the peak holiday travel rush is under way. i don t have to tell you, millions of americans hitting the road for the holidays, and the airports, what you must know to save yourself. i m sara sidner run. as fast as you can. with kate bolduan, john berman, hopefully loving life right now, this is cnn news central. we begin with this, new reporting have surfaced of former president donald trump pressuring election workers, this time in michigan, a swing state, as you know, in his bid to overturn legitimate results
Are you guys going to interject here or do i get to speak now . The town hall is for the president to speak to the voters of New Hampshire, not for this back and forth with the media. Thats number one. Number two, with respect to ukraine, i totally disagree. He did not say he was going to give over ukraine the way you intimate, van. He did not say van, what he said was is that he would actually look for a solution to end it quickly. He put 24 hours on it. What joe biden has done has been a disaster because initially with ukraine, joe biden wanted to give Vladimir Zelenskyy a ride out of dodge. It wasnt until people in moscow and ukraine here in the United States said this invasion is wrong and joe biden reversed course. Im trying to respond to everything coming up on the table. Lastly, we spent 22, 23 minutes talking about january 6th. We could have been talking about a whole lot of other issues. But let me are clear. What was said in this town hall about National Guard troops authoriz