Judge in washington, d. C. As the nation and american democracy face a critical test. The former president is scheduled to be in court tomorrow. Last night federal prosecutors charged him with four separate counts in a sweeping indictment. The Special Counsel is alleging that trump was central in the plot to overturn the 2020 election and has charged him with conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempting to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights. This historic indictment says that trump, quote, enlisted coconspirators to assist him in his criminal efforts. It repeatedly references six unindicted coconspirators. Cnn has been able to identify five of those six. Well be breaking down what roles they allegedly played in the effort to overturn joe bidens win coming up in a moment. Paula reid is with us now. What more do we know about the new charges that trump is facing . This is very much expect
Television and any fact pleaded donald trump guilty to the charge of attempting to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy to defraud the United States. Everyone except donald trump no is that criminal defendants should not speak publicly about their cases. The same is almost always true for Criminal Defense Lawyers. The most common response from Criminal Defense Lawyers to requests for interviews about their pending cases is one word, no. Most successful Criminal Defense Lawyers never grant Television Interviews, never. Too many of Donald Trumps lawyers are too eager to talk on trump supporting television about their client. And so tonight trump Criminal Defense Lawyer john lauro, in his first interview after donald trump pleaded not guilty to conspiring to trying to get Vice President mike pence to break the law, Donald Trumps Criminal Defense Lawyer actually said this. Professor eastman laid out a series of options that we were discussed with Vice President pence. Vice presid
That in court . That is what we will see but the evidence see but the evidence certainly appears overwhelming for what we saw in the january Six Committee and from what has been alleged in the indictment. There are tonnes of witnesses and they are all almost overwhelmingly republican, members of the trump administration, republican secretaries of state like Brad Reference Berger who of course donald trump famously told, just find me 11,780 votes. These are republicans, im sorry to even have to put it in those terms but this is what we have been reduced to, is not enough to see the Secretary Of State of georgia reported it. He is on tape saying, to this Secretary Of State who gave him money, even thought it was for close and say that there was no way he would violate his oath like that. So at some point we will be able to call ourselves out of the vicious partisanship that donald trump is injected into our country but in the meantime it is overwhelming republicans who are pointing the f
tonight straight from the source. we have exclusive new information on the january 6th investigation. special counsel jack smith has another key witness and she s about to join us live. plus, the fbi director coming face to face with some of his harshest critics during what turned out to be a tense hearing on capitol hill. blasting republican claims of bias against conservatives as, quote, insane. some democrats didn t give him a pass either and a lawmaker who was there will join us. also, menning fences. a high stakes sitdown between president biden and president zelenskyy ending on a high note tonight after tensions have been simmering about nato membership. how were they able to smooth things over? a top white house official will tell us about it. i m kaitlan collins. this is the source. tonight we have cnn exclusive reporting. the special counsel s team that is investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election has now interviewed michigan secretary of state jocely
meteorologist on why it feels, quite literally and figuratively like a turning point on climate change. this is american voices. as the battle for control of congress heats up ahead of the 2024 election, republicans are showing up how they plan to govern if they win. case in point, they are attacking civil rights under the guise of military readiness. on thursday, the house passed a new defense spending bill, going after anything they deem as quote, woke. republican amendments to the bill include ending diversity training, limiting health care for trans service members, that bill would also rollback a pentagon service policy covering travel expenses for military members. who must now travel out of state for abortion access, following the overturn of roe v. wade. this legislation made possible by a far-right faction of the house that demanded these controversial amendments to negotiations with house speaker kevin mccarthy. and this week could be a preview of the battle over