Reporter evening, trace. This is the second federal indictment for the former president out of jack smiths investigation. The 2024 gop candidate who leads the field by a wide margin has already pleaded not guilty to 37 counts related to his alleged retention of Classified Records from his presidency. Only this time were talking about four federal charges, including Conspiracy To Defraud the u. S. Conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. Obstruction and an attempt to obstruct an official proceeding. And conspiracy against right. Notably resist allege the president knowingly made false claims about the election being stolen which, they claim, stoked the fires of january 6th. Quote, these claims were false, and the defendant knew that they were false, but the defendant repeated and widely disseminated them anyway to make his knowingly false claims appear legitimate creating an Intense National atmosphere of mistrust and anger and erode public faith in the administration of the elect
it s about what you can prove. however, he also said that investigation was continuing and that he was the main suspect, the defendant was the main suspect to the fourth. now, who knows how much more there is, but this is a great starting place in terms of bringing some closure to a community that really never let this grow cold. and i think that s what really helped crack the case is this never got to warming up a cold case, they kept this alive and they kept investing behind the scenes. trace: i have to go but ghost trial? plea? what do you think. i think it goes to trial given the defense that s been enumerated thus far this will be for the jury. trace: going to be fascinating to watch. wendy patrick, bill melugin, thank you both. thank you. trace: first up in tonight s viral videos, nasa launched a rocket full of supplies and equipment bound for the international space station this evening wallop s island virginia it was visible to the entire dc met positively tear area w
a nation in decline as you well know, trace, it s going to be a very busy thursday because that is when the president is scheduled the former president is scheduled to appear in court here in dc. back to you. trace: again. we ll be there. kevin corke live for us in dc. kevin thank you also breaking today the alleged gilgo beach serial killer rex heuermann appeared in court for the first time since his arraignment and prosecutors will now begin turning over evidence to his attorneys after a 13-year investigation. in moments, legal analysis from prosecutor wendy patrick but first to bill melugin live on the key evidence on the case and bill so far the case pretty compelling. reporter: it is and he had a scowl on his face in court today as prosecutors were going after the mountains of evidence that they have against him. rex heuermann again in court today the suspected gilgo beach serial killer where prosecutors said they would hand over eight ter bites of data to his defense te
bet. let s bring in reformed california chairman carl demaio, carl great to have you on as always, i guess if you have 1% of the population paying half the taxes you tend to get yourself in a bit of a pickle sometimes. yeah when i tell people in california we are so dependent on that one percent where it s 50% sometimes even two-thirds of our revenue, income tax revenues coming from that 1% they re astonished. what that study also shows is that while we re seeing wealthy residents flee california and new york, guess who s replacing them? poor residents. which means at the time that you re losing tax increment you re seeing a surge on demand on well fair programs and public assistance. this is the perfect storm in california and they don t seem to be waking up in sacramento they re killing the goose that laid the golden egg. trace: always we need to raise taxes more. deadline day, about 18 months you haven t had a lot of renters
citizens. trace: speedy trial, mike, but get in line because you ve got a list of these things. how in the world he s got a pending case already against the former president trump. how in the world do you get these trials in before the election? which, by the way, is 15 months away. yeah, they waited 31 months to bring these charges, timed perfectly to try to cover up hunter biden and joe biden s clear foreign corruption. the fact that the president of the united states is compromised. we have alvin bragg s indictment for the non-crime of a businessman settling a nuisance claim that has to go to trial. jack smith s indictment of a former president, a non-crime of a former president having his presidential records which is allowed by the presidential records act. they won t be able to get this trial done before the election. trace: what about trump s team? do they have a way to slow this down? do they have due process rights where they say whoa, whoa, whoa, we need time to get o