written introduction to the january 6th report for harper collins. now, all of this i m saying to you tonight as we can catch up it s one of the most interesting parts of keeping your eyes open and staying alive is getting information in the past. you might have said what if? and will we ever know? tonight we do. this is about facts, not emotion. the facts i m sharing are gleaned from reporting from government probes and now we can say tonight for the first time from the digital facts and evidence that we can report on base on new charges against trump for those plots. so now, as we look through this together, let s update that chart with these new developments, because while jack smith does not accuse trump of sedition or insurrection, he does indict trump and cites the coconspirator s actions for plots we count here for the first time tonight, nail five of those original plots the fraudulent electors. you see that, indicted.
trump solicited fraudulent electors. to me this is an example of prosecutors and agents being thorough, but it s also an example of prosecutors and agents honing in on those states that were hotly contested, and where mr. trump tried to upset the results. jack smith is not going to presumably bring a case that he does not think he s going to win, and i have some interesting statistics about federal defendants and how often they win. in 2022 alone. less than half a percent of federal defendants were acquitted. almost 72,000 people were criminally charged by the fed, and only 290 of those went to trial, and actually won. those numbers are heavily in the government s favor. do you think that that sort of percentage here applies to bringing a case against donald trump or is this just in a league of its own. both, and if i can explain
for example, there has not been yet and it could change, but i ll always tell what you we know there has not been a lot of public evidence that ties president trump directly to any formal militia plans to storm the capitol on the 6th. he showed an awareness of people going to the capitol in a damning way when there were reports of violence. he still wanted to go there. we had that famous fight over allegedly whether he tangled with the secret service to go there. that might sound bad or incriminating but again, to be clear, donald trump who s now a defendant in this other federal case, there wasn t evidence we ve seen publicly that for example there was some advanced written militia plan and that donald trump personally saw. but and this is the bad news for trump as we get the details on the target letter there is a lot of evidence that directly tries trump and his aides to the fraudulent electors scheme. there s a lawyer with white house experience, norm eisen.
as you all know by now, we re juggling several crucial developments this afternoon, in addition to the target letter we ve been discussing informing donald trump that he is now a target of special counsel jack smith s investigation into january 6th as well as the pretrial hearing in the classified documents case. we re also covering this important story out of michigan. state attorney general necessary sell announced her office is charging 16 of those fake fraudulent electors, people who fraudulently proclaimed in official documents that trump won the 2020 election there. joining our conversation is someone we have turned to throughout the ex-president s attempts to overturn his defeat in 2020, now the governor of pennsylvania, josh shapiro. before he was governor, he was that state s attorney general. we had the privilege of talking to you often in that precarious period between joe biden s win
and secretaries of state in pennsylvania and new mexico have testified to that special counsel grand jury investigating trump s actions after the 2020 election. what did you make of that? i know nevada was another state that had the issue of fraudulent electors, phony electors being advanced to try to overturn the election results. that was something you encountered in your state. what is your sense of how this investigation is proceeding over there at the justice department? i would like to amend the attorney general and the special, i would like to commend them for doing their job. this is why we re here in orlando having a forum with constituents to talk about the attacks on democracy. this is not only about the former president and those who were involved in overturning a