Good evening everyone, and welcome back to our special breaking news coverage, im laura coates on this a stunning night in american history. As the 45th u. S. President s criminally indicted now for the fourth time. Donald trump now accused of leading a criminal enterprise to overturn the 2020 election in georgia. Im kaitlan collins, its not just trump. 18 others have been charged alongside him in this 41 count indictment tonight, including his former Chief Of Staff, mark meadows. His former attorney, Rudy Giuliani, and the onetime mayor of new york. All 19 defendants are facing racketeering charges. I mean, the indictment states all, quote, refused to accept that trump lost and they knowingly, and willfully, joined the conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of trump. Joining me now here in d. C. Is cnns evan perez, also the washington correspondent of the atlanta journalconstitution, tea mitchell and is back as well. Tour former house judiciary special co
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good morning, everyone. i m jessica dean in washington. jim sciutto is off today. the pressure is on for southwest airlines. the airline canceling another 2,500 flights already this morning. we are now up to more than 15,000 since the meltdown began a week ago. passengers from coast to coast remain very stranded. overnight southwest airlines ceo bob jordan issuing an apology. he says he s optimistic they will be back on track before next week. i want everyone who is dealing with the problems we ve been facing, whether you haven t been able to get to where you need to go or you are one of our heroic employees caught up in a massive effort to stabilize the airline, to know that we re doing everything we can to return to a normal operation. and please also hear that i m truly sorry. also ahead this morning, the crisis at the u.s. southern border. tens of thousands of migrants now wait in limbo after the supreme court ordered title 42 restriction toss remain in place as legal
now. i will let other see you. it has been one of those days. this is don lemon tonight, by this time tomorrow, we expect to know a whole lot more about what happened behind closed doors at the white house on january six. we know that because we have a couple people speaking to us, but i digress. i will get into that. new tonight is the committees outtakes at then president s message to his supporters the day after the riot at the capitol, showing him having trouble getting to the message, refusing to say the election was settled and attempting to call the rioters patriots. tonight, my colleague anderson cooper got congressman jamie raskin to tell him more about well takes the committee has. in just moments, committee member adam schiff reveals that you will hear people urging the ex president to say things to try to get the attackers to get home, things that he cannot be prevailed upon to do or say. that as one day after the secret service turn by precisely one text exchan
very political nature in this case. i don t think we need any of those things. you have norm eisen filing a brief in the case. he s been all over anti-trump stuff forever. just play it straight. if the documents are as the government says, they re going to have to be a lot of answers provided. and here now is the aforementioned norm eisen, former house judiciary special counsel and donald trump s first impeachment trial, as you heard, norm filed a brief in opposition to trump s request for a special master. thank you for being with us. your name was invoked. your response. well, john, this is such an important case that not me, i was just one of the lawyers for the case with the distinguished group of co-counsel, but seven leading gop legal voices, from every administration prior to donald trump s going back to the reagan administration put together this brief because they wanted to say to the judge, and there is not a political word in it, it is about the law. and they w