Hey, everybody, im yasmin vossoughian. If you are just joining us, welcome. If you are still with us, thanks for sticking around. Wrong and unamerican. That is how mike pence is now characterizing his former boss in a takedown from ticket mates that weve never seen, really, in american politics. The former Vice President finally saying, enough is enough when it comes to donald trump. President trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the election. The presidency belongs to the American People, and the American People alone. And frankly, there is no idea more unamerican than the notion that any one person could choose the american president. In a moment, im going to talk to olivia troye, former top aide to pence about why hes choosing this moment to break with the former president. The republican infighting does not stop there, though. It includes the gop censure of the two Republican House members who refuse to bow to trump when it comes to january 6th. As the party tries to recast t
Hey, everybody, im yasmin vossoughian. If you are just joining us, welcome. If you are still with us, thanks for sticking around. Wrong and unamerican. That is how mike pence is now characterizing his former boss in a takedown from ticket mates that weve never seen, really, in american politics. The former Vice President finally saying, enough is enough when it comes to donald trump. President trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the election. The presidency belongs to the American People, and the American People alone. And frankly, there is no idea more unamerican than the notion that any one person could choose the american president. In a moment, im going to talk to olivia troye, former top aide to pence about why hes choosing this moment to break with the former president. The republican infighting does not stop there, though. It includes the gop censure of the two Republican House members who refuse to bow to trump when it comes to january 6th. As the party tries to recast t
In the trump administration. Some of the accusations against mr trump include violating georgias racketeering act. Racketeering is a type of organised crime where someone profits through dishonest or illegal activities. And the ex president s also accused of soliciting the violation of oath by a public officer. Also, Making False Statements and filing false documents. A reminder that these charges are all in connection to accusations of Election Meddling by trump. The bbc s Kayla Epstein has been following the events in georgia and has more on the legal view of the charges. Ive been speaking to legal experts about this all day and theyve told me they are not surprised that a Racketeering Charge was brought by fani wills. Its a Signature Charge brought in the past and we expected to see this, but weve still got indictment, which is nearly 100 pages, it names 19 defendants, including donald trump, i think a lot of people were struck by the breadth of the evidence she lays out. Almost 70
A little bit later today, donald trump will be under arrest in a washington, d. C. , Federal Court and new reporting in the case against him in this latest indictment. Huge Security Preparations are under way because of that, and washington, d. C. , security is on alert because of it. What is happening ahead of this historic moment. I have come to believe that he knew well that he had lost the election. An extraordinary interview with former attorney general bill barr and why he believes that the information in the indictment is the tip of the iceberg against donald trump. Im john berman and with kate bolduan, this is cnn news central. All right. In a washington, d. C. Federal court later today, donald trump will be under arrest, and those are live pictures, and that is where it will all take place, and we are covering this from every angle with our reporters literally standing at each side of the building, and trump is going to face a judge and the charges and we expect he is going to
Results of the president ial election. Coming up, well dig deeper into the indictment and the former president s defense. Can trump be charged with lying if he believes what he said was true . The answer may hinge, at least in part, at least on district judge Tanya Chutkan, a vet ran on cases involving january 6th defendants. What members of congress are claiming and will it be a jury of his peers or the electorate who render the final verdict . We begin with tomorrows arraignment in a d. C. Federal court where donald trump will be formally charged for repeatedly spreading lies as part of an elaborate criminal scheme with the ultimate goal to hang on to power by any means necessary. In fact, trump is raising four federal counts including three conspiracy, to defraud the United States, to obstruct an official proceeding and to impede the peoples right to vote. Ever since the news broke, the former president , his allies and attorneys have been working furiously to smear jack smith and t