indictment looms, trump s rhetoric grows more extreme thugs and criminals who are corrupting our justice system. will be defeated. threats are made against the district attorney. we will not be intimidated by threats, fears rising over what could happen next dangerous he s going to get someone killed. the republican party closes ranks looking to defend trump from possible prosecution. we believe this is a political stunt jeopardy mounts. is this a turning point cnn primetime inside the trump investigations starts now. good evening. i m pamela brown will the force testimony of his own vice president lead to charges against former president donald trump? that is the big question tonight as a federal judge today ruled that mike pence must appear before a grand jury and reveal his conversations with trump in the run up to the capital attack, despite pence s efforts to avoid doing so, and moments, we have new reporting on pence s next step, and you ll hear with the former vice pre
other two. you may need binoculars i m told or telescope. mercury and jupiter dipped below the horizon about 30 minutes after sunset. so you might want to be quick about it tonight is peak viewing for the entire show. luckily if you missed it here in the eastern time zone, astronomers say there will be other chances this friday and also over the coming weeks. cnn primetime special inside the trump investigations starts right now. tonight investigations, closing it evaluating the court s decision . i have nothing to hide. federal judge decides former vice president mike pence must testify in the january 6th investigation. people are pleading with the prosecutor. don t do it. don t do it. it s wrong. manhattan grand jury investigating former president trump and the stormy daniels case here is from new witnesses . mr pecker corroborates what the federal prosecutors said about donald trump. shadow of indictment looms, trump s rhetoric grows more extreme thugs and criminals who ar
not connecting. that doesn t mean it s not people are going to support him doesn t mean he s not polling well, but it s not manifesting the same kind of incitement that we previously saw with one caveat, which is that we don t know, assuming that he is indicted what it will look like after he s indicted, and i think part of why we have not seen protests since is to your point. i do think that a lot of his supporters remember what happened on january 6th. there were a lot of people who were arrested, you know, just as his song points to and many of whom felt as if he didn t do enough to support them and help them either with legal fees or in some other way, so i think there is a real reticence among some of his supporters, even if they like him and don t think that he should be under investigation to go risk themselves in protest, but also the idea that he s playing that song. long and touting it in that interview. while he is under investigation for january, 6th and we ve seen how aggr
he s defied reality, and he s continued to move up in the poll. despite half a dozen. fact is, he is a candidate that his base loves. he has a rock solid hold on about 30% of the republican base. but this is a man who i at least believe is highly unelectable in a general election. i hope that my party learns the lesson that we should have learned in 2020, which is you can nominate him, but you will lose. this is a man who incited an insurrection. this is a man who is under countless investigations. he s not going to win a general election. but again, he s outperforming ron desantis ron desantis actually been dropping as trump has been gaining despite news that he may be indicted. and you you mentioned like when he first announced he wasn t weekend point. both the bottom line is these investigations were still ongoing. and it s so interesting, though, that now he is saying, well, the this is election interference when these investigations predated right when he when he launched another
was something he centered on. he talked about the weaponization of the justice department, saying that was the central issue of our time is, i think how we referred to it. and obviously, you know, when you pull voters, those are not the top issues that they have concerns about. maybe trump s some trump supporters to do do but generally republican voters. that s not the top of their list. and so it was just notable to me that that was kind of his central message is the investigations. he s spoken, the focusing or that he s facing the legal peril that he is in, and that was kind of the message that he was driving home. now, on the flip side of that, i will say there were a lot of people people at this rally. there was a lot of enthusiasm at this rally. so i think that is an important thing to note when the reporters are there on the ground when we talk about and you hear from people like chris christie, who just said tonight in an injury with axios that because you know, the january 6th