Trump was charged in Manhattan with 34 felonies for filing false business records. It's the first time in American history that a former president has been indicted.
boys, one who is particularly prominent, jeremy bretino, he s a major witness in this case. the other part is what you mentioned earlier, these encrypted telegram chats and video and audio, and this is from a chapter that tarrio formed in late december called the ministry of self-defense, and what the purpose of this group was for, the attorneys will be arguing over this in the coming weeks, the government said this is where they plotted their conspiracy and that these messages we ve seen kind of snippets of court documents, but that in full we ll see, you know, what happened before, what happened during, and what they were saying after, that these will kind of expose their plots. these are two major pieces of evidence that the government is going to use to build their case. we ll be watching. tess owen. thank you.
boys lawyers is saying the riot on the capital was essentially a six-hour inconvenience as far as the work of congress. i think you also tweeted when they showed the clip of pazzola smashing the windows of the capital, the damage wasn t that bad because the windows don t look expensive, according to the lawyer. these are not $1,000 windows. tess, what was the reaction in the courtroom when that argument was made? i mean there were giggles for sure. he was replaying these iconic videos of pezzola using a stolen riot shield to smash the window, and this was the first breach of the capital. you know, it doesn t look any better, the third or fourth or fifth time you ve seen it. so it was kind of hard to understand what this lawyer s line of thinking was. he also played repeatedly the