live cameras learned it took a time when we got the transcript buecause the judge was warning trump and his lawyer about any rhetoric that could incite violence. that was a reaction to what the prosecutor said was already a problem, trump attacking the process. here he was in his first appearance as a defendant. now donald trump is hurling more accusations at the d.a. calling him a, quote, criminal in that address last night he attacks the judge as well whether they actually crossed a criminal legal line is a separate question, but he is certainly doing something that most defendants get into trouble for. so tonight, we are going to go further into that. i have a further breakdown as promised later in the show with the transcript, working with what was basically about a 55-minute arraignment, which is about five or six times as long as most new york arraignments. i m going to do that breakdown and talk about how much donald trump could hurt himself if he does cross one of those lines i
investigation, this collection of documents from mar-a-lago, but that may not be enough to prompt a criminal investigation and an fbi raid. there may be other criminal statutes that are coming into play here because what we know about the presidential records act during the trump administration was lots of people complained about it. people sued over it, people tried to say including the national archives, warning trump and his administration, you might not be handling records appropriately, and at the end of the day, those lawsuits really didn t amount to much at all. and even just recently last week we saw the justice department sue peter navarro to try and take control of white house records that they believe he still has. that didn t apparently prompt a criminal investigation there. what does prompt a criminal investigation and where we appear to be now is that this could be about the handling of classified documents. that is something there are criminal statutes around. there al
dereliction by former president donald trump. as trump talks about a big announcement of his own. with revelations from the january 6th committee hearings frustrating donald trump the former president is accused of tampering with a potential witness. cbs news has confirmed that individual who was sharing information with the committee was a white house employee. the individual didn t take call and was concerned given he or she didn t routinely communicate with mr. trump. e will take any effort to influence witness testimony very seriously. reporter: the committee says the call came soon after the blockbuster hearing featuring former trump white house aide cassidy hutchison , warning trump wanted to join the group at the capitol. corroborate rate parts of hutchison s testimony, the laterrest in a sishz of possible wrches tampering.
speak to the people indirectly through his tweets. that was quite potent. we do not have a direct quote. two it s also been highlighted, how many people knew about the real possibility that violence could happen. how law enforcement were not warned and better prepared. sergeant cannell, wrote in his op-ed about this incident be notified about the ginger, my colleagues and i were kept in the dark and walked into an ambush. it is incredibly striking. you have to think back to the cassidy hutchinson testimony. that hearing in which they established there were people within the secret service and the white house were warning the chief of staff, mark meadows, warning trump, and others, there were people in that crowd who were armed. very specific information about what they were armed with. there are some real questions now about why the information did not get to the appropriate people to give them what they
ourselves without the structure and the basis and the framework of our constitutional republic. and cheney dropped a bit of a bomb at the end of the past week s hearing, warning trump and people around him, like the former chief of staff mark meadows to not tamper with her witnesses. she basically said, we have the text messages, where people are trying to influence cassidy hutchinson, cnn sources are saying some of the messages sent by people close to mark meadows. what does this portend for the future of the january 6th hearings? witness tampering is a real problem. but i mean, people seem to be worried enough that they are willing to tamper with the witnesses to get them to not testify. i think it lays out possible charges that could come against trump or his associates. you see witness tampering, there is also them laying out evidence of potentially obstructing an official proceeding. we counted four federal crimes