The vote of the people determining who the president of the United States is, or instead, violence and forced determining. As alleged in this indictment, he chose the latter. And he failed at it. And now the country and federal government will attempt to hold him criminally responsible for what he tried to do. For that alleged felony criminal conspiracy. We of course have been expecting this indictment for a long time but it is no less stunning for having been foreshadowed for so long. This is a federal criminal indictment of the former president for trying to overturn an election and keep himself in power. The indictment also describes six unindicted coconspirators. Five of the six of them, lawyers, primarily those who crafted the bogus legal arguments that underpinned trumps alleged attempts to undermine the electoral process. I say that because theres been interesting efforts within the Legal Profession to essentially police itself, and without accountability of various kinds for a
weather. and this afternoon as his predecessor prepares for his day in court, president biden headed to minnesota to tout his economic agenda. he stayed quiet on trump s indictment could that change today? and later this hour, we re looking ahead to tonight s big game in houston. the university of connecticut, san diego state will face off in the final matchup of a march madness full of twists and turns. so in just about an hour from now, former president donald trump is expected to start his journey from here in florida to new york to be arraigned on charges connected to a hush money payment made to an adult film actress before the 2016 presidential election. these are live pictures coming to us. there is the airplane, the trump airplane in palm beach airport i want to bring in my colleague yasmin vossoughian, who is on the other side of this story, outside the district attorney identifies in lower manhattan where trump will appear tomorrow, yasmin yeah, a lot of actio
side or on, if you want a good result. so, i think with the arraignment on thursday, those are usually pretty boring affairs and a normal case, someone enters a plea, there is an issue of bail, conditions. she made because of local rules be interested in making sure that the defendant complies with some free press fair trial rules, which is not to make statements that could prejudice a prospective jury. that is something that we saw when i was a special counsel on mueller s team, and he famously violated that as did paul manafort. i think the big issue for her is that there are now through each trials, so you had donald trump, he s been indicted for crimes before, during and after his presidency, and she is going to figure out when she will be able to slot in her
overthrow a presidential election, which was won by more than 7 million votes, three of six to 3:32 in the electoral college, then there is no such thing as professional in legal ethics. it s similar to what we experienced a week or two ago in the oversight committee when marjorie taylor greene projected pornographic photography in our hearing. of course, if it was in a book, she wanted to ban. but she put it in the committee, and i said to the chairman, if this is not violate the rules of congressional decorum, then there are no rules of congressional decorum. but we are getting to that place where the republicans are actually in an epistemological sense questioning whether there is a difference between truth and falsehood. a temple to say, who is the government to tell us what is true and what is not true. of course, the whole judicial system is based on the idea
that you got the proof facts beyond reasonable doubt. the jury can sort it out. there are these burdens of proof, and the courts will determine what actually happened, and what is a lie? but now, the people who claimed somehow of ethical absolutism when it comes to matters of the-ology or reality, when it comes to law, they say there is no way of knowing and three of their hands. of whether that violates the rules and ethics, or whether or not joe biden really won the election. this will be a vindication at the constitutional democracy and also a fact based government. to that point, congressman. this is about protecting, defending, holding up a democracy. on what grounds are your republican colleagues in the house beginning to make this comparison that they are today with hunter biden? it s difficult, almost a