79 at cardia cardia. Com or amazon im Arlette Saenz in rehoboth beach, delaware and this is cnn good morning. You are live in the cnn newsroom. Im Jim Acosta in washington again, this morning with special Counsel Jack Smith not backing down and bringing a retooled January 6 case against former President Donald Trump in a new indictment, federal prosecutor theres made some tweaks after the Supreme Courts controversial ruling giving for president s Donald Trump immunity from prosecution for official actions he took while in office. But all four of the Felony Charges remain accusing trump of attempting to defraud the government by obstructing the certification of the 20 in 20 election and trying to strip voters of their rights. Trump calling smiths action quote, An Act Of Desperation and ridiculous. And hes demanding that the case be immediately dismissed. The new indictment underscores the immense personal significance of a Trump Victory come this november, if he returns to the white hou
York city. Where we are just hours away from former president donald j trumps third criminal arraignment in just four months. Tomorrow afternoon, at four pm eastern he is expected to appear in person at a federal court in washington d. C. , where he will enter a plea to charges that he conspired to overturn the 2020 president ial election. Tonight dawn forsman is preparing, setting up barricades outside the courthouse. Of course, on tuesday a grand jury indicted trump on four separate felony counts, including conspiracy to defraud the United States of america. Today trumps lawyer gave another preview of what could be a possible defense that the Indictment Strikes at the former president right for free speech. This is the first time that the First Amendment has been criminalized. This indictment is criminalizing conduct not speech . Its criminalizing speech for this reason, what the president saw in the 2020 election was all these irregularities going on, he had the right to comment on
thousands of protesters walked from a trump rally on the side of the white house to the u.s. capitol where the certification of the presidential election wa underway. the protesters were angry. they believe the election they had just voted and had been unfairly conducted. they were right. in retrospect, it is clear the 2020 election was a grave betrayal of american democracy given the facts that have since emerged about that election. no honest person can deny it. yet the beneficiaries of that election continue to lie about what is now obvious. the real crime, they will tell you again and again, is not wha happened on election day 2020. the real crime is what happened two months later on january 6th when donald trump led an insurrection against the duly elected american government. to prove that claim, and to divert attention from the details of the presidential election itself, democrats and congress impaneled the house select committee on the january 6th attack. the poin
anniversary of the january 6 insurrection. and then a few hours later president biden will honor 12 people at the white house including police officers injured in the capitol attack. we ll take to you both events live. also just a few moments from now, house republicans set to hold a conference call as the standoff over who will be house speaker continues. this, of course, after kevin mccarthy failed to get the votes needed after three days and 11 rounds of votes. mccarthy allies continuing to negotiate with the hardliner holdouts. the situation fluid but mccarthy remains confident this morning. we re going to get it done. let s go straight to correspondent manu raju live there on capitol hill. so, this meeting, just about 15 minutes from now as i understand it, it is about to begin. where do the negotiations stand going into that meeting, manu? reporter: well this is a critical moment for kevin mccarthy because he needs to demonstrate that the deal-cutting going on b
beaker, no member sworn in and the only agenda is the fight for leadership. where things stand right now. and then on the eve of the anniversary at the january 6th attack on democracy, a warning from the former capitol police chief that this could happen again. he will be here. and an incredible update on buffalo bills player damar hamlin and his remarkable improvement, as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night . good evening, once again, i am stephanie it ruhle. or is the sound being less than an heard across the hour away from going province, as québec s scrape away the icy into day four without a speaker of the house aftermath of a winter. kevin mccarthy s cocktail. bid for the speakership i should probably go back to has now been bed. that was defeated a total my reaction. of but, here a 11 times in i am, outside a row and just in the cold. ice, the past three days. the house adjourned just a few hours ago and will be put back into session at into mauro.