Welcome everyone to viewers in the United States and around the world. Yes, it is friday, so happy friday. Im amara walker. Former President Trump is set to speak at an Alabama Party dinner in montgomery. He will likely have more to say about his arrest and arraignment on four charges stemming from his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Trump carefully enunciated his plea of not guilty before a Magistrate Judge. After the Hearing Sources tell cnn that trump was, quote, pissed off. Chris wynn has more on thursdays historic events. Reporter in an historic move, donald trump was charged with conspiring to overturn the results of a 2020 election which prosecutors say fueled the violence riots on our Nations Capital on january 6, 2021. This is a persecution of a political opponent. This was never supposed to happen in america. Reporter trump appeared before a Magistrate Judge thursday. He is charged with Conspiracy To Defraud the United States, conspiring to obstruct an official proceed
pose numerous potential schedule conflicts with trump s run for president. and brian todd sorts it all out for us. reporter: these criminal cases can be dizzying. there ara total of four criminal cases that the former president has been investigated in, three where he has been formally charged a paded not guilty the january 6 case that he was just arraigned in on thursda where is he charged with four federal proceedings and ting conspiracy to defraud the government. and then there is the mar-a-lago documents case where he faces counts related to the allegedly illegal retention of documents at his florida estate. case brought by the manhattan ey d.a. where he faces 34 counts of falsifying business records related to hush money payments. those are the cases where donald trump has already been indicted. enhere is the georgia case
grievances, a right to protest an election that he felt was unfair, has a right to campaign on a position. and they have attacked that right not just for president trump but for everyone. do you expect the defense during this particular defense during trial or is this just for the court of public opinion? what would the best defense be? oh, no, that is absolutely going to be a theme. and by the way, is that lawyer reading from jack smith s indictment? because he says that right in the indictment. he says trump has the right to say i m angry, i don t like this, whatever. that is our first amendment right. that is right in the indictment. but what smith says though is trump went beyond that, right, in trying to orchestrate the overthrow basically of the election. and you can t do that. i mean, any fifth grard der kno
said it wasn t bill and ted s excellent adventure and that they came to washington knowing full well the events of january 6. their actions were an assaults on the american people. and she also called it a violent attempted throw overthrow of the government that almost succeeded. and she said this he did not go to the u.s. capitol out of love for the country, he went for one man, one man in that sentence would be donald trump. reporter: and this wouldn t be the first time that chutkan has dealt with a case involving the former president. in november 2021, chutkan rejected trump s efforts to block the house select committee investigating january 6 from accessing more than 700 pages of records from the white house. in her ruling in that case, she wrote this memorable line presidents are not kings. and plaintiff is not president. chutkan has called the january of violence ans assault on american democracy saying
obviously this is how he reacts. but people tell me that he is angry, that this is not something that he wants to be doing is getting indicted, he wants to be running for president again in 2024. but as we have reported over and over again, we are at a point where the legal and political are one in the same. his arguments for the political are that he has to win because he is being persecuted in the court of law. and so it is interesting to see, but obviously as we know now, he is lashing out, so we ll see what he says on friday when he attends a dinner in alabama where he is speaking to the republican party there. kristen holmes, cnn, washington. this is former president trump s third arraignment in just four months. so those cases plus another that may be filed soon in georgia