Large interest most significant federal indictment of donald trump ever. This is in a way that well document more significantly than the legal headaches he already has. This will be tonight the first time any former president has been indicted by the Justice Department for trying to steal an election. Now, i mentioned, if you have been walking our breaking coverage, we have been going through what is a voluminous filing. Jack smith found six other coconspirators that are named in the filing. It alleges that trump spread lies, that there had been outcome determinant fraud, fraud that would have swung the election back to him, and these claims were false. And trump knew they were false. Ill put on the screen what were watching for. Want to share what were learning. S this a day we have been trying to hew closely to what we know and dont know. In the last several moments, the most heads up youll get from an agency that jack smith will approach the podium you see here. Some of the local Be
saw someone call it a screaming indictment. i said a shouting dime. because it s so loud. it is, and it s loud, but there s an elegance to it and a grace to it because of how well it s composed and it s just jammed with facts that are going to be very difficult for the defendant to dispute, and it s going to be very difficult for that large portion of the american populace to think that this is a hoax. and this is just a testament to the fact that facts matter. yeah. and that fraud is one of the charges i mentioned christy greenberg is here. so is andrew weissman, one of the many experts waiting on them we spoke about it earlier in our breaking coverage. david just pointed out this is the area where lives become criminal. i want to ask you something i
remains to be seen whether jeff clark is in fact coconspirator four, and even if it is, he obviously is entitled to his day in court. he has not been charged. he has not gone through that process. but by all accounts in terms of the description, that s who was described here. i want to tell viewers, if you didn t see all of what jack smith said or you re interested, we re about the play the key part of it as newsworthiness. we re also going the hear from a former prosecutor with experience who s my special guest on this newsworthy night because he was approached and turned down a request to represent donald trump legally in a jack smith related probe. so we have special stuff coming up. we re not take any breaks given the nature of the news night. before i bring everyone in on that, i wanted to put the same question to christy greenberg on all of the above. looking at how much detail there is in this indictment about the coconspirators, it
in the last several moments, the most heads up you ll get from an agency that jack smith will approach the podium you see here. some of the local beat reporters have assembled in that room. he ll approach the podium any moment. it s 6:01 in washington, and speak on this new indictment. if he does do so you can see the preparations for that. it will be only the second time we ve heard from jack smith publicly. the first was in the original indictment of donald trump in the classified documents and espionage case some when we get anything from that room, we ll bring it to you live here on the beat. this is a breaking news night. i want to bring in our experts. we have david kelly, former sdny chief. former sdny christy greenberg. our experts will be expanding over time. we ve talked about this. tonight it becomes reality.
tight lipped and very traditional approach this probe is taken, which is if you have questions read the indictment. we have been doing. that andrew, i have been doing that since before the attorney general recommended that. basically, that s a fair set of instructions. there are counsellors and others who have done it differently. ken starr and the prosecutor in georgia have been more public. but the attorney general echoing what special counsel jack smith said, read the indictment for the actions and updates in the news here. we have been going through. that i have other parts we haven t gotten to. i want to bring in former federal prosecutor joyce vance. first of all, good evening, joyce. good night, ari. good to have you. i want to start big picture and read quotes to you as we promised to do. andrew and i and neal and christy and david all reflected this evening that this is now happening. we are just an hour into the