Charging him in connecith his efforts to overturn the 2020 electi. Include the conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights. Moments ago the special counsel, jack smith, spoke more about the indictment and the charges trump now faces. The attack on our nations capitol 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 obstructing a Bedrock Function of the u. S. Government, the nations process of collecting, counting and certifying the results of the president ial election. The indictment went on to say that trump had six coconspirators, wolf, but of course it did not name them. This is truly, truly a remarkable moment in american history. The former president of the United States, who is now the current frontrunner for the republi
well, erin, we are now learning that the senior campaign adviser who is signified in this indictment as one of the people who was giving donald trump the harshest assessment that there was no fraud after the election that would overturn the vote, that person is jason miller. i have been able to confirm that. i ve reached out to a representative of his and received no comment back, but i have been able to confirm that that is, indeed, jason miller. this episode is just one of the highlights of how the special counsel s office was using information that the close advisers to donald trump on the campaign, people who even stuck with him after the 2020 election, miller continued to work with donald trump, continues be to work with him. these are people who were telling him that there wasn t fraud and that donald trump and the alleged co-conspirators or the co-conspirators in this indictment weren t charged at this time. they were doing something anomalous with what the campaign
get that narrative out there. of coarurse they are watching tt unfold. the big question is whether or not there is potentially indictment fatigue. that is something when i talked to an ally moments ago, they said we re just not sure. while this gives them a boost in polls, whim le this has given tm a boost, this is a third indictment of a former president who is currently running for president. this is completely unprecedented and they just don t know how this is going to play out. and one thing as we look at the calendar here, there s been a lot of conversation over this past hour we ve been having, kristen, about when this may come to trial, right? whether we will get a real verdict for the american people before the election. we know trump is expected in court thursday at 4:30 p.m. what do you know about that? well, there s still questions as to whether or not he s going to show up at court. we know there was some
it s more important than one man. on january 6th former president trump demanded that i choose between him and the constitution. i chose the constitution and i always will. also in that statement he makes the point that this indictment, which he says he ll have more to say about, guarantees that in this election we ll be talking more about january 6th than we will say about joe biden s handling of the economy. he appears to me in the statement to be pleading to republicans, if you want a referendum on joe biden, you have to nominate someone other than donald trump. that is in stark contrast than what we ve heard out of desantis and others. they called this bogus. they didn t read it before they did that. they immediately jumped to do that. ryan, to the point of the vice president though, clearly contemporaneous notes, right? that is mentioned more than once in here. olivia troy, who worked with
saying is that corrupting the institutions, trying to corrupt the institution of the vice president, trying to corrupt the institution of the state legislatures, trying to corrupt the institution of the justice department through trying to get the justice department to get in on this from an institutional perspective, that is illegal according to the special counsel and the justice department. you re the lawyer. is it possible that these unnamed co conspirators could find themselves getting target letters tomorrow? they could tomorrow. i think probably my my estimate of what the approach was here was that some might be farther along than others in terms of their willingness to try to not end up a name on this front page. right. right. so perhaps the release of this indictment will be not pressure but an incentive. carrie, you reverse engineer