I believe in the american people, and i believe in the fact that jurors will listen fairly and impartially. And for people who say they wont, dana, those are people who believe only in themselves, like donald trump and not the american people. Former Vice President mike pence says he has no plans to testify in a federal trial of trumps efforts to overturn the 2020 election, but he says he will comply with the law if called to be a witness. The day before january 6th, if memory serves, they came back, his lawyers did, and said we want you to reject votes outright. They were asking me to overturn the election. I had no right to overturn the election. You can say right here that you will rule out voting for donald trump again for president . Dana, i will tell you, i dont think well have to make that decision. What if you do . Im confident ill be able to support the republican nominee, especially if its me. Lets get some reaction now from one of the contenders vying for the republican nomi
To overturn the lelection is within his rights of free speech, saying it all comes down to the way he asks. When it comes to political speech, you cannot only advocate for a position, but you can take action, you can petition. You can ask even your Vice President to pause the vote. But you cant break the law, which is what this indictment alleges. What was the ill tell you what the indictment says. The indictment says that he attempted to cause actions like approving fake electors, Opening Sham Fraud Investigations and obstructing the certification of the lelection. Whether he can prove that, thats going to happen in the trial. Im just saying whats in the indictment. Let me take the first thing, the question about electors. Alternate electors are used in every four year cycle, okay . T none of those electors were counted. Vice president pence was completely aware of the nature of the they werent counted because mike pence rejected the scheme. Thats why they werent counted. Absolutely.
You are live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. Good evening. We are inching closer to i deadline in the governments case against former President Donald Trump over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Trumps lars now have about 22 hours to respond to a legal filing from special counsel jack smith. He requested a protective order after trump posted this on social media on friday. If you go after me, im coming after you. Smith wants the judge to limit trump and his legal team from publicly discussing sensitive evidence in the election interference case. Today on cnn we heard from one trump lawyer who says he will fight that protective order. The Defense Attorney also says trump did not tell Vice President mike pence at the time to throw out key electoral votes. He says the key distinction is that trump merely asked. Youre saying that asking is action. No, asking is aspirational. Asking is not action. Its core free speech. What President Trump did not do is direct Vi
This is gps the Global Public square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and Around The World. Im Fareed Zakaria coming to you from aspen, colorado. Today, an extra special program with three, yes, three former secretaries of the treasury. First, ill talk to Henry Paulson and Timothy Geithner about the state of American Politics and the downgrade of the uss Credit Ratings and the struggles of the chinese economy and then robert ruben talks to me about how to make hard decisions and what a yellow legal pad has to do with that skill. Finally, david burn came to fame with his new wave band talking heads, some 40 years ago. Ill talk to him about his latest wave of creativity which includes a musical about former fill pina first lady Imelda Marcos. Performed in a Broadway Theater thats been transformed into a disco. But first, heres my take. For years American Politics has been shaped by the idea of the china shock. The term coined by three economists in a paper captured the widespr
Im Anderson Cooper here in new york, along with jake tapper in washington. Anderson, the indictment charges donald trump with four counts, you see them there on your screen, allegedly motivated by one single goal, one that is antithetical to any functioning democracy, the peaceful transition of power. Quoting from the indictment now, quote, despite having lost the defendant, donald trump, was determined to remain in power, unquote. We learned of the indictment in the 5 00 hour today, shortly after Special Counsel made a brief statement, it is now in full. Good evening, today an indictment was unsealed. Charging Donald J Trump with conspiring to defraud the United States, conspiring to disenfranchise voters, and conspiring and attempting to obstruct an official proceeding. The indictment was issued by a grand jury of citizens here, in the district of columbia, and it sets forth the crimes charged in detail. I encourage everyone to read it in full. The attack on our nations capital, on j