defending himself online. and alayna at this point with a fourth indictment there is a bit of a playbook here. oh, totally, jessica. donald trump s team has now been through this three times before and they do have a playbook they ve cultivated over the past several months. and his team tells me that they think it s working. and so they re going to keep using it. and you ve seen donald trump kind of reiterate the same rhetoric he has used when talking about the past indic indictments. he has called this election interference. he has argued that he s a victim of political persecution. and he s directly going after the person filing the charges. in this case it s the district attorney in fulton county, fani willis. of course in past cases it s been the district attorney in manhattan, alvin wbragg, or special counsel jack smith. another thing i want to point your attention to is the timing around some of these charges. we know that fani willis gave him a deadline as well as the other 18
crossed, and you could see it with the rhetoric that he likes to use, and the bravado that he likes to use, and you could see that sliding together in the remarks there, and i know that from covering donald trump for years now, he does try to compartmentalize, and yes, he is concerned behind the screens, but he will keep that at bay, but tonight, i believe he will refer back to that sort of rhetoric tonight. kate? thank you, alayna. and now, looking at convicting the former president and what is at stake. and also, one of the sea drones hitting a russian naval ship, and video showingiing thep being towed away. .
would hold up in the court of law. if you look at the 45 page indictment that jack smith and his team filed on tuesday. they point out the former president did know he lost the election. he was told be many officials around him. they also argue he did not have the right, prosecutors say, to engage in a conspiracy to defraud the united states nor obstruct the january 6th proceedings. be thank you so much alayna. speak to you soon. sorry. no p. she did a great job. with us now, jennifer rogers and lawyer, michael waldman, president of the brennan center for justice. alayna who did a great job and we thank her again was laying out the defense we re going to hear from the trump team it was a free speech issue and he believed he didn t lose. well, former attorney general bill barr was asked about that
is going to transpire in the courtroom. this is the third time now that donald trump has been arraigned in the last several months, and so they have a good idea of what is going on. i have an idea of the mood speaking with his advisers over the past several days, and they say that donald trump is concerned about this indictment, and he recognizes the seriousness of these charges, but he is also frustrated that he has to go through this process yet again. and wolf, we have heard from former president on truth social and repeating the false claims that the election is stolen, and i am told that he is expected to speak to reporters again after the court appearance and we may be hearing from him directly as well. i suspected alayna, thank you. erin. a pro-trump lawyer who took
states nor did he have the right to try and obstruct the january 6th proceedings. how is this playing with his supporters? many now starting to react as, you know, as this indictment is settling in. well, as far as i know and i ve spoken with many of donald trump s supporters and they are very much behind him and they believe that he did not commit any crime and i was with him in yea erie, pennsylvania and i spoke with donald trump supporters and they argueded and used the same rhetoric that donald trump has been using is that he is the target of political persecution, that he is a victim of an unfair justice department and they really do believe that he did nothing wrong, kate. yeah. even that being before an indictment announced you can anticipate that nothing has changed from that reaction since. good to see you, alayna. thanks. john? trump and his campaign team