This time than what we might have otherwise been expecting. If the allegations in this indictment are proven Beyond A Reasonable Doubt and a jury convicts some of these crimes, history will not ask, wow, how did america get to the point where they indicted a former president . History instead is going to ask, how did america get to the point where such a person could be elected to the presidency of the United States. Were actions such as these could be carried out from the oval office directed by a person who was elected president by the American People, along with his advisers. This is a grave day and a serious one for our country. Thank you for being with us here tonight. We know you had every choice in the world. But we are happy to have you here on what will go down in u. S. History as a black letter, bold faced date, August 1st 2023 is the date on which a former president and the leading president ial candidate of the Republican Party was indicted in Federal Court, accused of lead
The special coverage. He is of course innocent until Proven Guilty and he will and should mount a robust defense against these charges, and he should be acquitted if he didnt do what he is accused of. But if the allegations made by the Justice Department in this indictment are proven, if the former president did what he is accused of, history is going to ask a different question of this time than what we might have otherwise been expecting. If the allegations in this indictment are proven Beyond A Reasonable Doubt and a jury convict some of these crimes, history will not ask, wow, how did america get to the point where they indicted a former president . History instead is going to ask, how did america get to the point where such a person could be elected to the presidency of the United States. Where actions such as these could be carried out from the oval office directed by a person who was elected president by the American People, along with his advisers. This is a grave day and a ser
states capitol. that means pretty much every cable news channel and three major broadcast networks will be providing wall-to-wall coverage, everyone except fox news which will stick with its regularly scheduled programming of tucker carlson, sean hannity and laura ingraham rick they are demoting their coverage to the much watched business channel. the primetime hosts will cover the events as news warrants. the network s decision might help avoid some awkwardness more thanity an ingraham who were actively communicating with mark meadow, trump s chief of staff on that slept day. in the 17 months since the insurrection, fox news, particularly the knocks in primetime, has spent hours undermining the severity of the attack on the capitol and more hours painting the investigation of it as a partisan witch hunt against the former president despite there being two republicans on the committee including vice chair liz cheney. according to philip bump of the washington post the reap
if you just think, i mean, we never had a president attempt a coup. it is so unprecedented. i think if we don t get to see it, like we got to see the january 6th, you know, those hearings, the fact that we could see it and see that these are not haters of donald trump, these are not his enemies, these are his friends, his own associates, his own people, i think it s so important that that happen and it not be filtered through fox or newsmax. the difference between january 6th hearings, as we saw them, and the trial, if it were televised, is we would get to see donald trump mount a defense. an adversarial process, he will hopefully have a good defense and that is part of the fairness of the process i. want to bring in our friend andrew westman. i feel like we are having a lot of loose talk over here about how definite is this goes to trial, how straightforward and or simple this is as a case. and that the american public would be able to follow the relatively straightforward allegatio
things we ve had in this country are these questions of police brutality and the police killing of unarmed black people. that case was unprecedented to televise that, that trial. right? that court normally doesn t televise those cases. but i think seeing it allowed people to understand that when, you know, black lives matter is marching, they are not making up what they are protesting against. it wasn t a lie. i think that, in many ways, did change peoples attitudes toward these issues of police violence. and i think this is if you just think, i mean, we have never had a president attempt a coup. it is so unprecedented. i think if we don t get to see it, like we got to see the january 6th, you know, those hearings, the fact that we could see it and see that these are not haters of donald trump, these are not his enemies, these are his friends, his own associates, his own people, i think it s so important that