Betters, than chatgpt could do. Thanks, jen. This is the Little White Schoolhouse in a still standing there today. A group of people got together in that Little White Schoolhouse and came up with an idea that that would end up changing the course of history, at least political history. In a time when america was hotly divided over the question of slavery. The people who met in that building decided they should start a new political party, a Coalition Party that brought together members of the Wig Party and free Soil Movement and also disaffected democrats who often had different political investigations for the country but who were all united around their operation of the moral crisis at the time of slavery. Now, they decided to call their new pliical party, the Republican Party. And the rest, as they say, is kind of history. Thend Republican Party would, o course, become the party of lincoln, the party that would end slavery and establish itself as one of americas two major political
13 Felony Charges for trying to overturn his 2020 Election Loss in the state. Its worth noting he is not alone this time. 18 codefendants also charged in this indictment. Including Rudy Giuliani and mark meadows. Theyre all facing Rico Racketeering charges which are traditionally used to prosecute ma mafia bosses and gang leaders. Fani willis ordered them to turn themselves in by next friday. Overnight trump slammed the indictment and said it was politically inspired to disrupt his president ial run. This is trumps fourth criminal indictment. He is now facing a total of 91, 91 charges in georgia, florida, new york, and washington, d. C. We have a lot to get to. Cnn this morning special live coverage starts right now. Good morning, everyone. Live, Fulton County courthouse where a grand jury has indicted donald trump and 18 codefendants for their alleged scheme to overturn the 2020 Election Loss in georgia. A look at the newspaper headlines across the nation this morning. The Atlanta Jou
So were going to do it the way we try to do it around here, which is with the facts and details first, and then well discuss them together. Todays proceeding began around 4 15 p. M. Eastern. Defendant trump was seated with his lawyers, just as he was during his last arraignment. You may recall. This is a sketch from that day in a Federal Court in florida. That was how he looked then. Todays arraignment adjourned so recently that we actually dont have those actual Court Sketches yet. We will get them and we will bring them to you on msnbc at whatever hour we get them. Lets put it like this when this year began, no former president had ever been indicted and arraigned. Tonight were reporting on Defendant Trumps third arraignment in four months. So he does know this process. Today he was digitally fingerprinted, submitted details like his birthday and Social Security number william a know that special counsel jack smith was in the courtroom because our reporters spotted him, seated roughl
So good to see you again. When this all happened last night, i thought of many things, but i did think of you, and ill tell you why. Its evidence related. You have used your knowledge, your program over the many months of this to talk about how initially it was pretty clear that the Justice Department was not going beyond the events of that day, and you and i talked about that. Other reporters have weighed in, and im curious even though i know you have been talking about it for two hours how you think we got here. Because what we saw in this indictment that i thought was both strong, gripping and bad for the indicted donald trump, was how long and repeatedly they tried to end democracy in america. Yeah, the indictment is so harrowing, and i think that jack smith was at this for just ten months, obviously he built on all of the good work of the committee. I have learned that things are never as clean as what they appear, and we dont always have all the facts before them. But i think the
Donald trump is expected to head to washington, d. C. Where he will make his first appearance in Federal Court in connection with the january 6 riot and attempts to overthrow the 2020 election. How the nations capitol is preparing for his Possibility Appearance down the road from the site of the insurrection. And then who are trumps six coconspirators listed in the indictment and not named and how do they fit into trumps world . Cnn has identified five of them. Who is number six . Plus, she was Speaker Of The House when the mob of maga rioters stormed the capitol. We have got to get to proceed congresswoman nancy pelosi, democrat of california will join me life with her first interview since the january 6 indictment. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Just about 24 hours from right now donald trump is expected to appear in Federal Court here in washington, d. C. Where he will face unprecedented criminal charges for his unprecedented alleged attempts to overthrow the 2020 election or