Good evening once again. I am stephanie ruhle, live from Msnbc Headquarters here in New York City where we are just hours away from former president Donald Trumps third criminal arraignment in just four months. Tomorrow afternoon, at four pm eastern. He is expected to appear in person at a federal court in washington d. C. Where he will enter a plea to charges that he conspired to overturn the 2020 president ial election. Tonight, Law Enforcement is preparing setting up barricades outside of the courthouse. Of course, on tuesday a grand jury indicted trump on four separate felony counts. Including Conspiracy To Defraud the United States of america. Today, trumps lawyer gave another preview of what could be a possible defense. That the Indictment Strikes at the former president s right to free speech. This is the first time that the First Amendment has been criminalized. This indictment is criminalizing conduct, not speech. Its criminalizing speech for this reason. With the president s
Respond to the dojs request for protective order. D. C. Judge says, mondays deadline stands. Earlier today, trumps team had asked for three more days to respond. Again, the judge just denied that request. The doj, filing includes trumps ominous truth social post last night that read, quote, if you go after me, i am coming after you. Trump also called Special Counsel jack smith a, quote, Deranged Human Being and a gop dinner in alabama. If the judge does grant the protective order, trump wont be allowed to share testimony or any other Trial Materials with the public. This comes as one of the top witnesses against trump is already being harassed. Former Vice President , mike pence. In new hampshire, heckled with names like traitor, just days after the doj revealed he took careful notes on trumps coup attempt. You didnt uphold the constitution. You committed treason. You committed treason you committed treason hey pence on the fence. Rolling stone reports, the attacks on pence are even mo
The special coverage. He is of course innocent until Proven Guilty and he will and should mount a robust defense against these charges, and he should be acquitted if he didnt do what he is accused of. But if the allegations made by the Justice Department in this indictment are proven, if the former president did what he is accused of, history is going to ask a different question of this time than what we might have otherwise been expecting. If the allegations in this indictment are proven Beyond A Reasonable Doubt and a jury convict some of these crimes, history will not ask, wow, how did america get to the point where they indicted a former president . History instead is going to ask, how did america get to the point where such a person could be elected to the presidency of the United States. Where actions such as these could be carried out from the oval office directed by a person who was elected president by the American People, along with his advisers. This is a grave day and a ser
And dr. Anthony fauci. Arrested . [music] a fox news alert for the Biden Justice to permit just brought criminal charges against donald trump. His political opponent for the third time in four months. This time the charges relate to january 6. 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 sets forth the crimes charged in detail. That was special counsel, jack smith, who looked like a bedraggled nervous wreck, dripping with anger and highly emotional. The last time jack smith charged the politician, the case was so we could get tossed out of the Supreme Court unanimously. Joe Biden Justice department is using obscure federal statutes, to put a former president in prison for the rest of his life. These charges are not briber
Show up. Theyre underway. Good evening once again, im stephanie ruhle. Donald j trump is already facing serious legal trouble on multiple fronts. But he may soon be fighting a whole battle, other criminal investigations move closer to the possible indictment face. There are signs special counsel they could be closing in on charges related to efforts of the 2020 election. They posted this about smith. Quote, i assume an indictment will be coming out in the day now. And well campaigning this weekend, he estimated the false claim, also known as a lie that any potential charges against him we politically motivated. They waited two and a half almost three years its right the middle my president ial election. Its election interference. Its a great badge of honor. Because i am being indicted for you. Meanwhile, the classified Documents Case is moving forward. It is now been four days since that superseding indictment was filed. This morning they knows codefendant, the maralago Property Defend