Determinative fraud in the election. And that he had actually won it. The indictment charges trump with four counts. Conspiracy to defraud the u. S. , conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. Obstruction in an attempt to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights. The indictment laying out a detailed timeline, and statebystate efforts to appoint illegal electors an influence local officials to change the outcome in their states. And it also lists six unnamed coconspirators. The indictment alleges trump attempted to enlist Vice President mike pence to obstruct the certification of the election results, and that the violent attack on the Capitol On January 6th was fueled by lies, and as you heard jack smith say right here moments ago, lies by the defendant. Special counsel jack smith making that rare appearance before the cameras, calling the attack on our nations Capitol On January 6th an unprecedented assault on the seat of american democracy. The former presid
Development in the special counsels investigation of former President Donald Trump. A Federal Grand Jury has now criminally indicted the former president out of the special counsels investigation into his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The 45page indictment begins by saying the former president lost the 2020 election, knew he lost, and then for months spread lies that there had been outcome determinative fraud in the election. And that he had actually won it. The indictment charges trump with four counts. Conspiracy to defraud the u. S. , conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction in an attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights. The indictment laying out a detailed timeline, and statebystate efforts to appoint illegal electors and influence local officials to change the outcome in their states. And it also lists six unnamed coconspirators. The indictment alleges trump attempted to enlist Vice President mike pence to obstruct the c
look it up. the lead starts right now. from canada all the way down to the cloipiasarolinas, wildfie been burning for more than a month, why did it get so bad for today, and how long will this last, and former president donald trump swears he s being attacked up fairly again and desperately wants you to hear his side of the story, and he s just released a new tv ad starring some wild animals to make sure you get the message. all this while former vice president mike pence jumps in the race against trump and chris christie believes he can both them both. i ll ask governor christie how ahead when he joins me live on the lead. welcome to lead. i m jake tapper. we ll begin today with our health lead. as much of the eastern united states is being choked right now by a dangerous haze of smoke caused by more than 400 raging wildfires in canada. air quality alert are out for more than 55 million people across the northeast, midwest and mid-atlantic. the air is so unhealth
manhattan. you may remember her from this video harassing a group of pro-life students. this is propaganda. you don t even know what that is. you don t know what this is. bill: that prompted the new york post to send the reporter and photographer to her home this week and here is how that went down yesterday. get away from my home. let s get out of here. you can t do that. she did not stop there. video shows her chasing those journalists through the street. the reporter who was threatened with a machete we just wanted to speak to this woman. we thought we might have a chance given that she is passionate about her beliefs and if she showed up at her door she would be willing to grant us an interview. hoping for interviews. this was a first for me. she verbally threatened to chop us up with the machete and pressed it against the side of my neck for about a second. bill: who knew she had that? nate foye is live outside hunter college for the latest on this toda
this will be the scene of the action, the formal arrangement over the first 30 plus indictments. how are things looking there, bryan? neil, things here are relatively subdued. more action at trump tower as the former president makes his way to his residence there. what we can talk to you about is these charges. this is what we know. the reality is the diamond is under seal. so the former president and the world doesn t know the exact charges. sources tell fox that we can expect trump to face more than 30 counts related to business fraud, including at least one felony. we expect these charges to be related to adult film star symptom my daniels, the $130,000 hush money payment made to her and a payment made to karen mcdougal. legal experts the indictment will include the falsifying business records charges and could be updated to a felony in the state of new york if they find that trump falsified the records with an intent to commit another crime. that crime could be the viol