Our Special Coverage continues now on the arrest and arraignment of donald trump. Im wolf blitzer alongside laura coates. Truly an extraordinary and unprecedented day right here in washington, d. C. I mean the former president at one point was in the custody of the very government he allegedly tried to overthrow, just a mere step or two from the center of democracy of supporters even attacked on january 6th in the culmination of the plot to overture election. Onald j. Trump arres arraigned for the third time in four months on four federal charges including conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, conspiracy against rights. The next hearing now scheduled for august 28th when the judge intends to set a trial date. And donald trump was standing up in court today, and he actually pleaded not guilty to all four of those criminal charges. And before boarding his private plane to return to new jersey, he was railing against the indictment and try
Make, that is about the First Amendment. Hes allowed to give a political speech, and allowed to say wrong things in the speech. If you are republican running against trump and saying this is bad, the argument has to be that it is First Amendment protected for you to say gosh i probably lost georgia unfairly by 12,000 votes. You cannot call the Secretary Of State and say find me 12,000 votes. Those are different types of speech, and itll be interesting to see if any of the republicans in the primary actually make that argument. Wolf, putting all the legal stuff aside, you and i have covered a lot of these campaigns. I cannot believe that Vivek Ramaswamy is not trying to seize upon donald trump being arraigned in Federal Court to take advantage for his campaign. He sounded as though he is auditioning for Vice President or a member of the trump cabinet. What kind of bizarre, Twilight Zone world are we in right now . Other campaigns, in the past, Campaign Rivals will be seizing on Somethin
not accurate. and, at the end of the day, when he talks about donald trump and getting past it here is the reality. the reason why we are not passed it is because every day, donald trump is out there banging the drum, about how the election was stolen from him. it is not because of these charges, it s because of what trump did on january six and what he is doing today. what he did there on the tarmac at a dca as he left the city after being indicted, saying this is political persecution. the reality is we are all here today because donald trump sent his supporters, who he knew were armed, and had weapons and said go march on the capitol, i m coming with you. but i think it is important to note that actually what he said on the ellipse on january 6th is actually is not what is in the indictment. i worry that by calling at the january six indictment that it allows this message that you heard vivek ramaswamy make, and many of trump s defenders will
where i want to see us go. i m deeply worried about it. i m in this race to lead a national revival, but we have to be able to move on from the past to the future to do it. i understand your position and i think president obama would deeply disagree with your assessment of the reasons why he was motivated to commute the sentence of chelsea manning, but, finally, i guess it is very clear that either of us will be a part of the jury selection process in any of these three different indictments and if there is a fourth, somehow i think they re going to pass us over in the process. but as you say, you are evidence and data driven so i wonder if the jurors will have an opportunity to see that evidence in a trial before they make their decision at the polls. ramaswamy, thank you for your time. thank you. let s get some reaction from our panel, jean rosa, you are a former federal prosecutor. what did you think? closing down the fbi, 35,000 employees with whom i worked for 20 years it