This is insane. The defendant cant be granted even a few words . The third indictment of donald trump is the one much in the media has been eagerly awaiting because they feel it vindicates their reporting on the 2020 election and that doesnt mean trump will be found guilty not at all but there is a sense that democracy is at stake, that we finally gotten to the heart of the matter. Did the former president break the law and constantly charging the last election was stolen. The crux of the case is not whether trump caused january 6. That be impossible to prove but whether he knowingly lied about the rigged election. The indictment says, donald trump spread lies, the claims were false and the defendant knew they were false but his team says otherwise, and that trump believes what hes been saying. Even though members of his inner circle say they told him he lost and here is what trump said after pleading not guilty. This is a persecution of a political opponent. This was never supposed to
you do not get to overturn an election by force. howie: boy what s interesting, robbie, on this question of words versus action, is that john lauro, on all five sunday shows today, trump s attorney says oh, he didn t direct mike pence to try to stop the election. i mean, he said you could be a hero, instead you re a coward. i don t know. it sounded pretty close to a pressure campaign to me. well, this is something eventually a jury will have to decide. i mean, with respect to what we just heard, i mean it is calls to people, huddling in rooms. that is speech. now obviously you don t have the right, you can commit a crime and there s a speech component and still a crime. i m not naive about that. but is the pressure on state officials finding votes that are out there that my advisors have given bad advice and i m wrong but i think those votes are out there then that doesn t look like howie: what about the people in his inner circle and there are a number who have said publicly he