2 1 2 years after a mob of his supporters attacked the u. S. Capitol, donald j. Trump has been charged in the effort to overturn the election he lost which culminated in such violence to people, property and democracy that day. If you are just joining us, im here in new york alongside jake tapper In Washington and Kaitlin Collins outside the d. C. Federal courthouse where the former president will be arraigned thursday afternoon. Anderson, we just heard from the d. C. Metro police, the department saying they are working with federal Law Enforcement in preparation for the arraignment on thursday. As for Special Counsel jack smith from whom we last heard after the first of now two federal indictments in the documents case, he spoke again briefly this evening. Take a listen. The attack on our Nations Capital on january 6th, 2021 was an unprecedented assault on the seat of american democracy. Its described in the indictment, it was fueled by lies. Lies by the defendant, targeted at obstruc
today on inside politics, cnn obtains audio that pits donald trump against himself. trump wants you to believe he was playing pretend, but listen here and you decide if it sounds like trump was telling the truth about showing off a classified document. this was done by the military and given to me. plus john roberts doesn t break. the chief justice with a theory to let states rewrite how they count your votes. and the house speaker opens pandora s box. kevin mccarthy suggests that maybe donald trump is not the republicans best bet to beat joe biden. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. up first, which donald trump do you belief within the former president s legal team has to contend with a new problem. prosecutors can play this to a jury. isn t it amazing to have a big pile here? look. this was him. they pregnant prented me this. this is off the record. this was him. this was the defense department. this was him. this wasn t done by me. this was h
fraud. stone may regret letting the cameras roll in that room. there is new video from that session and we have it for you exclusively later tonight. we begin with news on a story that i can tell you some on the right are hoping the nation forgets. the kind of story they re hoping that you news viewers and citizens will forget because we live in a time of growing inequality and corruption. take supreme court justice thomas blatant taking and grifting gifts from insiders, or billionaires, shaping our politics and clashing with anyone who dares disagree with the power they think they bought over our democracy, or this ongoing rolling trumpian takeover of a political party which has resulted in rallying the gop around rank, transactional calculus, self-interest as a kind of new norm to be minimized or even defended. and i ll tell you this as introduction to some really important stuff we re about to show you. the modern republican party has long embraced capitalism, sure. bu
ari melber starts right now. i m glad i let you go because i remember you have your own show to anchor. thank you. our thanks to nicolle wallace and the whole team there doing this cover nl. we continue the breaking coverage of the first ever federal indictment of a former president. today the justice department unsealed an indictment of defendant donald trump of 37 counts. we re covering this historic and unprecedented development with our legal experts who have been pouring over this 44-page indictment since it was first unsealed this afternoon. the nation heard from special counsel jack smith for actually the first time ever today. a prosecutor known for his work and today his actions, indicting the former president after about seven months on the job. and he spoke clearly and concisely about this indictment and national security crimes. today an indictment was unsealed charging donald j. trump with felony violations over national security laws, conspiracy to obstruc
introduction to some really important stuff we re about to show you. the modern republican party has long embraced capitalism, sure. but only recently has it publicly defended, minimized or sometimes embraced the kind of grifting donald trump is dealing in parts of the business. and while they are facing the greatest accountability, a fraud case concludes on that next week, i will tell you it has taken years of subpoenas and depositions and appeals and delays and court clashes across more than one case to even pull back the layers and get the facts about trump s self-enrichment during his presidency. so they may hope you and the country have moved on. tonight, right now, we re going to show you the new receipts that document trump s enrichment from foreign governments while he was in office. i ve got to tell you before i go through it. this one matters for policing