Today on inside politics, a burden of proof and politics. The trial against donald trump takes shape as a federal judge sets a date to decide when prosecutors will present their case. A timeline careening into a campaign. Now the former president issued a plea to the Supreme Court. Plus Kevin Mccarthy a auditions for supporting role in the trump defense. The House Speaker unloads an angry tirade over the special counsel indictment, Sidestepping The Former president ials election lies that led to a deadly attack on the capitol where Kevin Mccarthy serves. And made by bidenomics, new cnn reporting spotlights the strategy to make sure americans know their roads, dams and ports and jobs attached to them are thanks to joe biden. Im dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and inside politics. Up first, Donald Trumps anger and anxiety triggered by a looming trial for alleged election crimes. The former president s public posture is defiance. Today donald trump made a demand that the Supreme C
Republican congressman fred upton talks about the indictment of former President Donald Trump and his support for a Bipartisan Group called no labels which is exploring a campaign for a third party candidate. Welcome to Washington Post live. I am the reporter here at the Washington Post. Our guest is former republican from michigan it, fret up in. Fred upton. Welcome back. Fred its nice to see you. Host lets get right to the news. Donald trump was indicted for a third time on charges that he tried to disrupt the 2020 election. You said this was totally justified. Your vote to impeach mr. Trump for those actions, why do you feel vindicated . Fred we saw it firsthand. Those of us that were there in the capital that day casting the vote at 8 00 when the house came back because of the insurrectionists that were there. The bottom line was he really did try to not allow the counting of the electoral votes on january 6. We see the conspiracy charges with the fake electors. We have every reaso
Appear before a judge, a Magistrate Judge, to be formally charged for the third time in less than four months, as chris said, and msnbc news has learned three of the officers injured in january 6th will be trying to attend the hearing, although just a handful of members of the public are going to be allowed inside, and just 11 members are reserved for the press. You can see the camera shaking because were all moving in real time here, trying to give you as much access to see whats happening, but even before he appears in court, trump has been fighting these charges on social media. Hes been raising money off of it, his Fundraising Committee has fired off at least eight solicitations for donations since this indictment was handed up on tuesday. He also posted a message to his supporters saying its a great honor to be arrested because im being arrested for you. Now, technically, hes not going to be arrested. Hes going to go in and surrender to authorities, but lets discuss whats happenin
Charging him in connecith his efforts to overturn the 2020 electi. Include the conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights. Moments ago the special counsel, jack smith, spoke more about the indictment and the charges trump now faces. The attack on our nations capitol 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 obstructing a Bedrock Function of the u. S. Government, the nations process of collecting, counting and certifying the results of the president ial election. The indictment went on to say that trump had six coconspirators, wolf, but of course it did not name them. This is truly, truly a remarkable moment in american history. The former president of the United States, who is now the current frontrunner for the republi
Cover politics backroom deals, cia hi guys. Affairs, bribery, corruption, prostitution. As someone who lives for politics when a major scandal unfolds, i have to know. Theres so much more to the story in knighted states of scandal with jake tapper next sunday at nine on cnn good morning, everybody. You are live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta In Washington right now, voting is underway in nearly all 16 Super Tuesday states of what effectively could be the beginning of the end of the 2024 president ial primaries, the American People well make their voices heard and barring a major upset, the country will be one step closer to the prospect of former President Donald Trump being the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party for the gop, more than onethird total nominating delegates are at stake trump maintains a commanding lead on track to win more primaries and caucuses this is than any nonincumbent candidate in history. All of that raising the question, could this be the last and f