I would love to talk i will talk about it. Theyre not taking away my First Amendment rights. Donald trump claiming earlier this week that no one is going to stop him from speaking about his criminal case. Today, judge Tanya Chutkan laid down the law and told trumps lawyer that trumps words will have consequences. And the First Amendment is not absolute. Plus, attorney general Merrick Garland appoints a Special Counsel to investigate hunter biden . And republicans are predictably complaining about it after spending months demanding exactly that. And good evening, everyone. Happy friday. Tonight was a big night for donald trump, who discovered that after all, at least to the criminal Justice System, he is no different from anyone else. Despite his fame and political prominence, he cant just publicly abuse witnesses because hes on the campaign trail. The judge who taught him that lesson today is named Tanya Chutkan. I have a bunch more to say on her in a bit, but we begin the reidout toni
This is an incredibly weak, baseless, convoluted indictment, it is bizarrely centered around what is clearly protected speech, zero criminal statutes, because there are none that were applicable that are actually written into law. It is based on an obscure law from the civil war. Lets be even more clear, this indictment is frankly not worth the paper it is printed on. This is a political persecution, through and through. There is a reason Donald Trumps poll numbers keep going up every single time he goes through yet another attack like this. By liberal activist attorneys general. American people are seeing through all of this, and joe biden socalled department of justice, is now officially completely out of control, joe biden ag Merrick Garland, who signed off on this charade, remember, the department of justice as part of the executive branch. Theyve now gone full Banana Republic. Hes not even making any attempt to reason even the appearance of fairness. Garland and other democrats in
Welcome to cnn news central. 24 hours from now we expect to see donald trump on his way to Federal Court here in washington scheduled to make his First Court Appearance after term prosecutors charged him with four separate counts in a sweeping indictment. Special counsel alleges trump was central in a plot to overturn the 2020 election. The indictment also says he had help coconspirators. It repeatedly references six coconspirators. Cnn has been able to identify five of those six. They are former Trump Lawyers rudy giuliani, john eastman and sidney powell, former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark and protrump lawyer kenneth chesebro. I want to go to zach cohen. Tell us what we should expect to see tomorrow and included in that what kind of security should we expect to see . Yeah, the expectation right now is that donald trump will be in d. C. In person and have to travel to the courthouse for this appearance, and, look, federal agencies and local Law Enforcement have been prepa
This is an incredibly weak, baseless, convoluted indictment, it is bizarrely centered around what is clearly protected speech, zero criminal statutes, because there are none that were applicable that are actually written into law. It is based on an obscure law from the civil war. Lets be even more clear, this indictment is frankly not worth the paper it is printed on. This is a political persecution, through and through. There is a reason Donald Trumps poll numbers keep going up every single time he goes through yet another attack like this. By liberal activist attorneys general. American people are seeing through all of this, and joe biden socalled department of justice, is now officially completely out of control, joe biden ag Merrick Garland, who signed off on this charade, remember, the department of justice as part of the executive branch. Theyve now gone full Banana Republic. Hes not even making any attempt to reason even the appearance of fairness. Garland and other democrats in
super durp jourduper journalism super durp duper journalism super duper journalism awards. greg: i don t know. so this is where we honor writers who impress us with their brave journalistic pursuits and tonight s winner, we get right to it, jeremy bailey a writer for the rap an entertainment web site. friday he broke a major story about a famous tv anchor saying something shockingly disgusting to a co-anchor. i believe we have tape of what actually caused the uproar. a lot of these homeless services that are getting a lot of money, more and more money, it s not working. the solution is, in listening to the homeless, like the woman who says we are spoiled, we need tough love or we re never going to get off the street. greg, what do you think about that approach? greg: i agree with everything the little lady says and i m sorry about the cart: now did you catch that, panelist greg gutfeld otherwise known as me referred to dana perino as a little lady. talk about a mi