The Special Counsel charges donald trump with conspireing to shatter the american experiment. The ha 45page indictment nar tat rates a plot to stay in power after losing an election. And it does so with some new evidence, including realtime notes from then Vice President mike pence. The politics, the third Trump Indictment slipped the field into familiar camps. The charges will also test joe bidens resolve to do what is sometimes unnatural. Stay quiet. The consequences, how the prosecution plays out in court may determine the future of both donald trump and american democracy. Im dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and inside politics. Tomorrow a court date for the former president here in washington. Today the country gets a line by line look at The Plot Against America and the alleged crimes of donald trump. Central to the indictment is the Special Counsels assertion that trump knew that he lost the election and pushed lies to stay in office any way. Describe d in the indictment
buddies and allies to overturn the 2020 election. as we reported on this program at this hour yesterday, mark short, he s of course the former chief of staff to former vice president mike pence, testified before a d.c. grand jury last week. now according to new multiple reports, we also know that a second senior pence aide also testified. that would be greg jacob, pence s legal counsel. both men, of course, had a front row seat to the extraordinary pressure campaign on mike pence by trump and his allies, people like john eastman, to get pence to stop the certification of president joe biden s election victory on january 6th. wall street journal reports these stunning details about their testimony. quote, one area of interest to prosecutors was a january 4th, 2021, oval office meeting where conservative lawyer john eastman pushed pence in trump s presence to either reject the electoral votes outright or suspend the proceedings and asked several state legislatures to re-examine
female reproductive condition that begins with fertilization, b, occurs when the woman is carrying the developing human offspring, and c, is calculated from the first day of the woman s last menstrual period. so the definition here is going to be key moving forward, and it s why planned parenthood is preparing for what happens next. they say abortions scheduled for this week in oklahoma will likely go on as planned. but they re making plans to cancel next week. the governor is expected to sign it. he s shown his support for these bans in the past. the governor has said that his state will protect life. he says that churches and non-profit organizations are going to have to focus on adoptions, and he says they will focus on protecting the mothers who of course, this is one of those issues that you have all kinds of opinions on both sides of the aisle. but that will have big implications for women in oklahoma. jake? the legislation has measures in it that would punish doctors
he s standing by life live. also growing concern the u.s. about the potential spread of another deadly virus. the cdc is now discussing whether to offer vaccinations for people at high risk of what s called monkey pox. a rare case has just been confirmed in this country. and as the buffalo shooting suspect appears in court, there s a new report just outside tout that some 15 peopl signed into an online chat room where he invited people to watch the racist attack where it happened. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m westolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with president biden hitting vladimir putin with a one-two punch. the united states now poise d t send billions of additional dollars in new aid to ukraine as the president is promoting new efforts to expand nato right now. our chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins is joining us live from seoul, south korea. the president is heading to asia, whe
You lye from washington, d. C. New revelations of hamas atrocities on day six of the war in the middle east. Anderson cooper is live in tel aviv. More funerals as families bury their loved ones massacred in the Terrorist Attacks. A short time ago, Benjamin Netanyahus Office Released photos of babies who have been killed and burned by hamas. The Prime Ministers Office says the pictures were among the images that Benjamin Netanyahu showed Secretary Of State Antony Blinken earlier in jerusalem. Blinken, stand ing alongside th prime minister, compared the brutality to the worst of isis. Babies slaughtered, bodies desecrated, young people burned alive, women raped, parents executed in front of their children, children in front of theis, how do we even understand this . To digest this . New warnings are now coming from the International Red cross saying gaza likely only has enough fuel for a few more hours, and it is needed to Power Generators for hospitals. Without power, quote, gaza hospit