Former president donald trump. House democrats sent a letter to judicial conference in effort to rewrite federal standard. Democrats claim televising the trial will be beneficial. The letter was spearheaded by California Senate hopeful adam schiff, who wrote, given historic nature of the charges brought forth in cases, it is hard to imagine more powerful circumstance for televised proceedings. It will be vitally important for the public to witness how the trials are conducted. The credibility of witnesses. Critics slammed the move as a partisan slump, trumps officials invite the idea. I would love to see that, im convinced Biden Administration doesnt want people to see the truth. They want to keep Important Information about this case from the press. Emily Wall Street Journal argues cameras should stay far away from the courtroom, cameras can be distraction from seeking fair justice, particular risk in trump trial that will be a Global Media Circus in any case, that is precisely what d
Hes cocky for a nineteen year old. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta. There is a new deadline in the new back and forth of the indictment of president trump. The federal judge overseeing trumps Election Fraud case has responded to a court filing from special counsel jack smith that came in last night. Smith wants a protective order after trump posted this social media message late last night. It says, if you go after me, im coming after you. Smith wants the judge to limit trump and his legal team in terms of what they publicly discuss about the sensitive evidence in the case. And the judge has now given the trump team until 5 00 p. M. Monday to respond. Minutes ago, the judge denied a request from the Trump Lawyers to push back mondays deadline. Smith had called it an unnecessary delay. Joining us now to talk about this, jim schultz, a former Trump White House lawyer. Thanks very much for joining us. We appreciate it. Lets start with what the judge is saying. There is now a
To overturn the lelection is within his rights of free speech, saying it all comes down to the way he asks. When it comes to political speech, you cannot only advocate for a position, but you can take action, you can petition. You can ask even your Vice President to pause the vote. But you cant break the law, which is what this indictment alleges. What was the ill tell you what the indictment says. The indictment says that he attempted to cause actions like approving fake electors, Opening Sham Fraud Investigations and obstructing the certification of the lelection. Whether he can prove that, thats going to happen in the trial. Im just saying whats in the indictment. Let me take the first thing, the question about electors. Alternate electors are used in every four year cycle, okay . T none of those electors were counted. Vice president pence was completely aware of the nature of the they werent counted because mike pence rejected the scheme. Thats why they werent counted. Absolutely.
Flack about the border, they reveal the deficiency between meyer case and his purposeful conduct. Bill so build back in his post. Nico parker texas bill but do you have . Good morning to you, the images are startling, and the Law Enforcement tells me that it happened saturday night down in the valley, we will get right into those images, take a look here, they show a group of suspected Cartel Gunmen on the Drawbridge Cameras that they cross illegally into france and texas. I have a cutout area with significant Drug Smuggling and you can see there are with rifles and some of them are wearing body armor as they are moving to the brush and what you are looking at the u. S. Side of the border. I am told elite Border Patrol were called out to the area, and they search for these men but they were unable to find them. And this happened days after an arm smuggler was seen here in eagle pass we are. Take a look at these Images Released by texas dps from one of their jaunts. Again showing and Hu
Lying about election results, mailing personal insults at its critics. Making famously veil threats towards those who seek to hold him accountable. But none of trumps can change the cold, hard fact that the former president now faces serious criminal charges in three separate cases. In the coming days and weeks, it could even be one more. We start tonight with congressman benny thompson, democrat of mississippi. The former chairman of the january six commission. Congressman, thank you for joining us. Its always good to talk to you. Lets talk about trumps lawyer, john moreau. He did it washington and said recall the full ginsburg today. Almost a little bit about what he had to say becho and get your response on the other side. Take a listen. The defense is quite simple, donald trump, President Trump believed in his heart of hearts that he had won that election. As an american citizen, he had the right to speak out under the First Amendment. He had the right to petition governments aroun