Former President Donald Trump set to be arrested and arraigned again tomorrow. We have new details on what to expect in court. Prosecutors named six coconspirators allegedly involved in the scheme. So will they face charges now . Might it be possible they could flip . The special counsel praising the Law Enforcement who stared down an insurrection, pushed back rioters on january 6th. One of those officers joins us on what today means for them. Saras off. Im kate bolduan with john berman. This is cnn news central. Tomorrow, former President Donald Trump is expected to be arrested and arraigned again following a third Criminal Indictment. This one is different, not having to do with Hush Money Payments before he was president , not having to do with classified documents after he was president. This was while he was president and his fight to stay in power after losing the election. Hes charged with four new federal criminal counts. You put your finger on what makes this so historic is be
Right to have their votes counted. All fuelled by what jack smith calls Donald Trumps widely disseminated and knowingly false claims that the election was stolen, as he counted on violence to help him remain in power. We will bring you new information on the six unindicted coconspirators, including trump attorney rudy giuliani, who pressured officials to manipulate the vote count in multiple swing states. Trumps attempts to get mike pence to stop counting the certified votes. We will have the latest responses from trump and his lawyers as well as his rivals. Our reporters and legal experts also. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. A few blocks from the federal courthouse, here we are. Former President Donald Trump tomorrow has been called to appear tomorrow afternoon before a Magistrate Judge to face charges in a new indictment with four counts from Special Counsel jack smith. The 45page indictment alleging three separate conspiracies, which built on the mistrust the
Show he was pushing extreme election Subversion Strategies that could now put him in brave league goal peril. Were talking about Kenneth Chesebro chesebro was the rightwing attorney who helped devise the fake electors plot. The scheme to a appoint fake president ial electors that republican legislatures would then use to overturn the actual results of the 2020 popular vote in key states. Chesebro has already pleaded guilty to a crime in the Georgia Election subversion case, and he cooperated with prosecutors and other states so that he could avoid additional charges. Lets get more details from cnns Marshall Cohen who is breaking the story with kfile. Marshall, tell us about these tweets and could chesebro be at legal risk for seemingly hiding them . Jake, he could listen when you cooperate, you need to tell the truth and cnns kfile team uncovered a secret twitter that cheseboro concealed from prosecutors in michigan. There are dozens of tweets from 2020 that undercut what he later told
2 1 2 years after a mob of his supporters attacked the u. S. Capitol, donald j. Trump has been charged in the effort to overturn the election he lost which culminated in such violence to people, property and democracy that day. If you are just joining us, im here in new york alongside jake tapper In Washington and Kaitlin Collins outside the d. C. Federal courthouse where the former president will be arraigned thursday afternoon. Anderson, we just heard from the d. C. Metro police, the department saying they are working with federal Law Enforcement in preparation for the arraignment on thursday. As for Special Counsel jack smith from whom we last heard after the first of now two federal indictments in the documents case, he spoke again briefly this evening. Take a listen. The attack on our Nations Capital 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 obstruc
we are so grateful. the beat with katie phang starts now. it s so good to see you. welcome to the beat. i m katie phang in for ari melber. we re going to start with what could be a consequential plea deal. the new york times reporting former trump organization ceo alan weisselberg is in negotiations with manhattan prosecutors to plead guilty again, but this time to the charge of perjury. now, this deal would require weisselberg to have to admit that he lied on the witness stand in trump s civil fraud trial and that he lied under oath in an interview with the new york attorney general s office. weisselberg previously admitted to orchestrating an off-the-books scheme within the trump organization for which he spent 100 days at rikers jail last year. this breaking news just came out from the new york times. your reaction to this news? i guess timing is everything, right? we are waiting for judge arthur engoron to issue his ruling on the remaining counts that were under