Thanks alex. The Breaking News at this hour tonight is the astonishing news that Donald Trumps Criminal Defense Lawyer, john lauro, who did a very solid and serious job in the courtroom today during Donald Trumps third criminal arraignment of the year, where donald trump once again pleaded not guilty, that lawyer then went On Television and any fact pleaded donald trump guilty to the charge of attempting to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy to defraud the United States. Everyone except donald trump knows the criminal defendants should not speak publicly about their cases. The same is almost always true for Criminal Defense Lawyers. The most common response from Criminal Defense Lawyers to requests for interviews about their pending cases is one word, no. Most successful Criminal Defense Lawyers never grant television interviews, never. Too many of Donald Trumps lawyers are too eager to talk on trump supporting television about their client. And so tonight trump Criminal De
john eastman responded, well nobody s tested before. the vice president and told the defendant, don trump, did you hear that? even your own counsel is not saying i have that authority. the defendant, no trump responded, that s okay, i prefer the other suggestion, of the vice president rejecting the electors unilaterally. don trump s criminal defense lawyer tonight on television in effect admitted that the indictment is an accurate description of that meeting. professor eastman laid out a series of options that were discussed with vice president pence. vice president pence disagreed on certain issues. but ultimately what president trump said is, let s go with option b. let s just halt, let s just pause the voting and allow the state legislatures to take one last look and make a determination as to whether or not the elections were handled
the question of which state was legitimate, which slate was legitimate, to the targeted states legislatures. in a shockingly incompetent slip, to put it mildly, on television tonight, donald trump s criminal defense lawyer actually emitted to that accusation in the indictment. donald trump s lawyer, you just heard, and don trump s lawyer said tonight on television, what president trump said is, let s go with option b. let s just halt. let s just pause the voting and allow the state legislators to take one last look and make a determination as to whether or not the elections are handled fairly. that is essentially what jack smith is accusing donald trump of having said. the indictment says that when vice president mike pence challenged john eastman on the legality of that idea in that meeting, quote, coconspirator