The first one is Conspiracy To Defraud the United States. Second is the conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. And then the conspiracy against rights. Thats, of course, the Voting Rights of u. S. Citizens around the country. Now, ill read you just a part where the Special Counsel describes what theormer president is accused of dog here. It says that the defendant spread lies, that there had been outcome determinative fraud in the election and that he had actually won. These claims were false. And the defendant knew that they were false. But the defendant repeated and widely disseminated them anyway to make his knowingly false claims appear legitimate. According to the prosecutors, wolf, the former president disregarded the advice of all of his appointed officials, people inside his own government, his experts, people from the Justice Department, people from the intelligence community, people from the Homeland Security department, all of whom were telling him that there was no s
Charged with any crime. Will they be or there they flip on him . The testimony of former Vice President mike pence proving to be a key part of this historic indictment. Sara is off today. Im john berman with kate bolduan. This is cnn news central. Great to have you back, first of all. Thank you. Quite a day it is. This morning donald trump has been charged with trying to obstruct the peaceful transfer of power. It is unprecedented. It is historic. And it puts the nation in truly uncharted territory. Two monumental almost foundational forces directly at odds. On the one hand as peter baker of the New York Times writes, can a sitting president spread lies about an election and try to employ the authority of the government to overturn the will of the voters without consequence . On the other hand the wall street Journal Editorial Board suggests it, quote, potentially criminalizes many kinds of actions and statements by a president that a prosecutor deems to be false. We will explain how S
i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. at a start of a historic week for our country. later this morning donald trump is expected to travel from new jersey to florida where he ll be arraigned tomorrow, set to become the first former president ever to enter a plea in a federal case. but there could be a wrinkle in the proceedings. we ll explain that. this as some of trump s closest former allies are warning the facts are against him. if even half of it is true, then he s toast. it s a pretty it s a very detailed indictment. it s very, very damning. security in miami ramping up ahead of the former president s arrival. we ll have the latest on the massive effort to keep everyone safe. plus a travel nightmare. a fire causing a section of the very crucial interstate 95 to collapse. this is near philadelphia. we ll have a live update on the repairs and the investigation repairs that could take months. later, a miracle in absolutely every sense of the word. four missin
russian military blogger has been killed in an explosion at a cafe and st petersburg, russia. here is new video showing the aftermath. several others were injured in the blast. that s according to russian state media . the explosion also caused the building s facade to collapse. cnn s matthew chance is in russia. matthew what are you learning? wow. i mean, you know you can see the pictures there. there s a police cordon all around that cafe in st petersburg, where there was an explosion inside, and it is killed, one of the country s most prominent pro war military bloggers. his name is vlad lynn to task. at least that s what he goes by, and his blog he s got his real name is something else called maxim farming, but that s that s what his blogs called that s. that s the name under which he writes and he is well known in russia has got more than half a million followers on his channel, his telegram channel and is well known for being very aggressive, very pro war he wants in
interior ministry, saying that that that s what they re looking into at this point, and there s certainly there s video, and there s been eyewitnesses giving accounts of this figure. vlad lynn tartasky is the sort of pen name that he had. his real name is maxine forming mandatory isse, russian pro war military blogger. inside that cafe. you can look at the devastation on the screens right now. that s obviously the aftermath of the explosion and at the moment russian health officials are telling us that as well as the one person dead vladan tartasky. there s 25 injured. 19 of them are in hospital, six of them in a very grave condition, according to the russian health ministry. tartasky mandatory isse figure very popular figure inside russia in the sense that his telegram channel has more than half a million million followers, he s one of the country s most prominent military bloggers. he came to notoriety last year when in september he was in the halls of the kremlin, and he p