Our special breaking News Coverage continues now of the third, he has a third, criminal indictment of former President Donald Trump. Im laura coates. Remember. Not the news tonight, still stunning, even though people expect an indictment to come right now it is here. We have believed it sink in. The 45th president indicted by a grand jury and jack smiths investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. And its not lost on anyone that, while trump is facing charges over the last election, he is, of course, in the middle of his reelection campaign, flora. This is the third time, the third time that donald trump has been criminally indicted informants at this point . Special counsel jack smith charged him in the classified documents probe in june, and the Manhattan Grand Jury charge of the former president for Business Fraud back in march and just listen to what Special Counsel jack smith had to say tonight. The attack on our nations capital, on january six 2021, was an unprecede
collecting, counting, and certifying the results of the presidential election. all right, so what exactly is in this indictment? our correspondent polo reid is here. so, paula you ve been working this for so long, fabulous reporting. you and the team. today s indictment is laying out how trump views, quote, dishonesty, fraud, and deceit in his efforts to stay in power. so what is standing out to you tonight? the biggest thing that stands out to me is that the former president is the only one being charged today. this is something that our reporting over the last several weeks had suggested to us that we were quite surprised that he would be the only one charged, at least initially at this point. and because he clearly did not act alone. you re looking at the charges that he s facing right now, three of them involved a conspiracy or obviously he would need someone else and throughout this indictment they lay out exactly how he worked with others to amplify what he
i want to bring in our polo reid, let s get right to it. trump has more than one exec t executive order and ready to go. what do you know? former president trump drafted two versions of executive orders of voting machines. one is directing the department of defense to seize the machines and the other is directing the department of homeland security to do so. that document has been handed over to the house select committee investigating the january 6th by the national archives. multiple sources tell cnn that a second version of the same document also exists but instructs dhs to carry out the same tasks. neither memo was issued but it shows the length trump s