Charging him in connecith his efforts to overturn the 2020 electi. Include the conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights. Moments ago the special counsel, jack smith, spoke more about the indictment and the charges trump now faces. The attack on our nations capitol on january 6th, 2021, was an unprecedented assault on the seat of american democracy. Its described in the indictment, it was fueled by lies, lies by the defendant targeted at obstructing a Bedrock Function of the u. S. Government, the nations process of collecting, counting and certifying the results of the president ial election. The indictment went on to say that trump had six coconspirators, wolf, but of course it did not name them. This is truly, truly a remarkable moment in american history. The former president of the United States, who is now the current frontrunner for the republi
co-conspirators, wolf, but of course it did not name them. this is truly, truly a remarkable moment in american history. the former president of the united states, who is now the current front-runner for the republican presidential nomination, charged with trying to undermine the will of the american voters in order to cling to power. we have a team of reporters standing by. let me get to sara murray first about the identities of the six co-conspirators. what can you tell us? reporter: that s right, wolf. there were six co-conspirators. we are prepared to identify five of them from our reporting. the first unindicted co-con spiritor we have identified as rudy giuliani. this is someone who called the arizona speaker of the house. that was rusty bower. somebody who made a presentation before georgia state lawmakers and the person donald trump tapped to lead his post-election
the 2020 election. and, again, number 5. we have a pro another pro trump lawyer, kenneth chesboro. the indictment points to an email memorandum sent to giuliani in december of 2020 about the fake elector s plot. based on everything we have previously reported, everything we know, what our sources are telling us and of course the work of the house committee that investigated january 6th, those are the five co-conspirators that we are prepared to identify at this point, notably all attorneys who worked alongside donald trump in this effort to overturn the 2020 election, wolf. significant reporting. thank you so much for that, sara. erin? now you can go through this. when it says co-con spiritor 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 fill in those names. i want to go to caitlyn polanz. on the back of sara s reporting, you have information about something in this indictment. what are you learning?
only tip that the da can prove or can he prove more? because it seems to me that these are such vivid charges and there is there were a second set of books and records. there were spreadsheets. it s not like the organization didn t know what it was doing. clearly it did. the next question looming over all of this is to what end? who was benefitting from this? it s hard to think to yourself, this is like the mastermind weisselberg. probably not. the question is, who else was making money off of this? and, you know, like the logical thing is, well, former president trump. the question is can the da prove that? right. and we should note a few things. one is weisselberg is not the only executive and there s this from 2005 to the date of the indictment the named defendant and unindicted co-con spiritor number one agreed to and
loops in. it tolls the statute. everything goes together with the last obstructive act would be when the limitations runs. so when the limitation counting periods starts. so it may not be based on his behavior, in my opinion, it may not be that he gets away with it, and it s a threat to the case. the other issue is on the payment to stormy daniels, you know, that s over so that statute of limitations is running and might very well run, which would be totally unfair that michael cohen goes to jail, the president is essentially an unindicted co-con spiritor and what michael cohen did, he did for the president. he goes to jail and the president nothing. congressman nadler has reportedly argued that an impeachment inquiry would