Overturn the results of the election here in georgia. And to support this, shes offered up a nearly 100page indictment that detail 61 acts that were part of this conspiracy across these 19 defendants. There were also 30 Unindicted Coconspirators and these allegations span 7 states and the district of columbia. While this is the fourth criminal indictment trump faces this year, this is by far the most sweeping. Rico cases are challenging. They tend to get drawn out. When you have 19 defendants and their attorneys, its easy to see how things could get drawn out for months or even years, but the District Attorney said she wants to try everyone together, and shes hoping to ask for a trial in the next six months. So former President Trump and the 18 others who have been indicted have 10 days to voluntarily surrender. How might this booking look different from the other arraignments trump has gone through . Reporter its going to look different than what we have seen at the federal level. We
he is probing the night the trump aides and some outside allies tried to hatch a military coup plot. again, if those words sound disturbing to think about your own american government and not something happening in some other region, buckle up. your government is investigating this with an eye on indicting potentially the people who wanted to abuse your military to take away your vote. it s a big story. i know it s summer, i know it s friday, this is a big story. the night of december 18th in the oval office where some of the most extreme trump plotters were working on tactics that allegedly even rudy giuliani warned would land them all in prison. they wanted to have soldiers seize election machines. they wanted to install one of trump s political legal operatives to try to dictate unlawful orders, both pertaining to the justice department and the military. that would be sidney powell. she had been on the campaign side, more or less, meaning arguing in court or making motions
prosecutors probing witnesses about a heated oval office meeting just weeks after donald trump s loss, during which the former president considered desperate measures to stay in power. tonight, trump on the campaign trail. once geagain trying to spin his legal problems in his favor. he is going after the justice department and his main republican rival, governor ron desantis. president biden is speaking to cnn on his decision to send cluster munitions to ukraine. the president voicing his concerns with the controversial weapons but ultimately deciding they are crucial to kyiv s counteroffensive. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you are in the situation room. first up tonight, cnn s exclusive new reporting on that chaotic oval office meeting now at the center of special counsel jack smith s investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. our political correspondent sara murray is joining us. she
behind the scenes. a specific meeting inside the white house is looming large. a meeting the committee says has been described to them as insane. a meeting that s preceded by hours, former president trump s tweet calling on supporters to be at a protest in jog on january 6th and that it would be wild. committee member jamie raskin who will lead today s hearing said when trump wrote this, he became the first president in american history to call for a protest against the peaceful transfer of power. committee says the hearing today will focus on how extremist groups were inspired by that tweet. how they mobilized in response, coming to washington that day. and also, what connections exist between trump s circle and these extremist groups. witnesses include rioter stephen ayres who talked about the civil war. and a former spokesperson for the oath keepers will also testify. we re also learning that the committee will reveal new information by members of congress to pressure fo
committee member jamie raskin said that s the moment that trump became the first president in american history to call for a protest against the peaceful transfer of power. we expect the committee to try to link this to extremist groups mobilizing around january 6. also, the committee has suggested they will probe possible links between trump s circle and some of the extremist groups. one of the witnesses today, stephen ayres, a convicted rioter. also a former spokes keeper for the oath keeper will join us. joining us now elie honig. your gravitational force is pulling us over here. we re talking about what the committee wants to do today. the tweet from donald trump why that inspired them to mobilize around january 6. and why is that important? yeah, john, the committee is going to make the point that the one and only reason that the mob descended around the capitol, liz cheney wrote, president trump assembled the mob. we re going to hear about the december 18th meeting