A momentous day at the nations capital. Also for the entire country, the start of something that i think will carry on potentially to, through an election. Everything matters right now. Hours from now, former President Trump will appear in a d. C. Courtroom to be arraigned for the third time in the last four months. Law enforcement officers put up barriers. They did that overnight, preparing for the former president s arrival. We are live right outside the courthouse. And one of trumps alleged coconspirators, isa soares, alleges implementing a pan for thenVice President pence to block the certification of one of these attorneys joins us ahead. Three dancers who worked for lizzo filed a lawsuit, accusing her of creating a hostile were Work Environment. Lizzo issues a new statement about their claims. This hour of cnn this morning starts right now. Here is where we begin. In hours, former President Trump will depart his bedminster good job in new jerseon his plane, arraignment in four mo
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So good to see you again. When this all happened last night, i thought of many things, but i did think of you, and ill tell you why. Its evidence related. You have used your knowledge, your program over the many months of this to talk about how initially it was pretty clear that the Justice Department was not going beyond the events of that day, and you and i talked about that. Other reporters have weighed in, and im curious even though i know you have been talking about it for two hours how you think we got here. Because what we saw in this indictment that i thought was both strong, gripping and bad for the indicted donald trump, was how long and repeatedly they tried to end democracy in america. Yeah, the indictment is so harrowing, and i think that jack smith was at this for just ten months, obviously he built on all of the good work of the committee. I have learned that things are never as clean as what they appear, and we dont always have all the facts before them. But i think the
President at the United States. The only person who could possibly have told jack smith and The Grand Jury about those phone calls is mike pence. The january Six Committee invited mike pence to testify, but he refused. The january Six Committee did not bother to issue a statement to mike pence since they knew he would ignore it, just as some other elected republicans ignored subpoenas from the committee. Mike pence could not ignore jack smiths subpoena. Mike pence went to court in what he knew was a legally hopeless attempt to block jacks mitt subpoena. Mike pence went to court to try to show trumps quarters, whose votes he wants in the president ial campaign to think that he was forced by Judicial Process to testify to jack smiths grand jury. Mike pence did not just testify to jack smiths grand jury. He became the star witness, and he will be the start witness when the case that the United States of america versus Donald J Trump is presented to a trial jersey in washington, d. C. They