The 2020 election. 18 others charged as well, including big names. Rudy giuliani, measuring meadows, with that many people, does it make it more likely that someone could flip. Prosecutors call it a Criminal Enterprise and they are leaning hard on Racketeering Laws to make their case. Im kate bolduan with john berman and sara sidner. This is cnn news central. Donald trump and 18 codefendants have 10 days to turn themselves in and surrender in georgia. In a 98page indictment, the former president , who is also the current front runner for the 2024 republican nomination is accused of plotting against the Very Constitution he swore to protect. And the office he hopes to hold again. Fulton County District attorney fani willis argues all 19 defendants refuseed to accept that trump lost and knowingly joined a conspiracy to change the outcome of the election. I make decisions base d on te facts and the law. The law is completely nonpartisan. Thats how decisions are made in every cay case. We
today on inside politics, cnn obtains audio that pits donald trump against himself. trump wants you to believe he was playing pretend, but listen here and you decide if it sounds like trump was telling the truth about showing off a classified document. this was done by the military and given to me. plus john roberts doesn t break. the chief justice with a theory to let states rewrite how they count your votes. and the house speaker opens pandora s box. kevin mccarthy suggests that maybe donald trump is not the republicans best bet to beat joe biden. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. up first, which donald trump do you belief within the former president s legal team has to contend with a new problem. prosecutors can play this to a jury. isn t it amazing to have a big pile here? look. this was him. they pregnant prented me this. this is off the record. this was him. this was the defense department. this was him. this wasn t done by me. this was h
as donald trump makes a third bid for the white house and is the the first votes are to be cast in iowa in just under two weeks. trump s lawyers say the 234-year unbroken tradition of not prosecuting the presidents for official acts, despite calls to do so from across the political spectrum, provides powerl evidence. no president prior toth donald trump tried to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power. had his attorneys point to the likelihood of mushrooming prosecutions. and future cycles. the ex-the president snlt prolsing retribution. his al lies aren t the ones plotting to end the independence of the justice department. the most audacious argument, one yesterday. on this program donald trump cannot be tri a criminal court for role in the january 6th insurrectn because heas acquitted by the senate during his second impeachment the new york times reports both legal perts have disdegreed with that position. not least because the federal charges he s facing are not analogous
public reporting and witness accounts indicate some individuals and groups engaged in efforts to gather information about the layout of the u.s. capitol as well as the house and senate office buildings in advance of january 6, 2021. they re talking about tours like the ones referenced by congresswoman sheryl in the days just after the insurrection. it was a shocking allegation in those ensuing days and one that raised some of the earliest questions about premeditation of that brutal attack on the capitol. the questions about whether or not sitting members of congress were involved in any way, shape or form in this nearly unprecedented attack on our country. here is congresswoman mikie cheryl back then. those that i saw on january 5th. those members of congress that incited this violent crowd. those members of congress that attempted to help our president undermine our democracy and i ll make sure they are held accountable and if necessary make sure that they don t serve in
Breaking news this morning. Five americans are on a plane, one step closer to their freedom after being wrongfully detained for years in iran. We are live in qatar which is their first stop and where they are expected to touchdown any moment. In georgia, a hearing a under way for one of Donald Trumps codefendants where one of the defendants is asking his case to be moved from a State Court Into Federal court, and will it fail like mark meadows did. And how, a irs agent is saying that his rights were failed. With kate bolduan and sara sidner, im john berman and this is cnn news central. Five prisoners in iran wrongfully detained are expected to arrive in qatar by jet. And talking ging about siamak , emad sharghi, morad tahbaz and two other Unidentified Americans will be headed to america. And now 6 billion will be available to iran for humanitarian reason, and five iranian held prisoners will be released as well. Becky anderson is in doha, and what is the very latest that you are hearin