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
get that narrative out there. of coarurse they are watching tt unfold. the big question is whether or not there is potentially indictment fatigue. that is something when i talked to an ally moments ago, they said we re just not sure. while this gives them a boost in polls, whim le this has given tm a boost, this is a third indictment of a former president who is currently running for president. this is completely unprecedented and they just don t know how this is going to play out. and one thing as we look at the calendar here, there s been a lot of conversation over this past hour we ve been having, kristen, about when this may come to trial, right? whether we will get a real verdict for the american people before the election. we know trump is expected in court thursday at 4:30 p.m. what do you know about that? well, there s still questions as to whether or not he s going to show up at court. we know there was some
announcement of her release set for this past weekend. a former national security council iran analyst says it s latest news this president,as iranian mahmoud ahmadinejad, is about to attend the u.n. general assembly. all the back and forth about sarah shourd s release, what does itst say? first of all,i think president mahmoud ahmadinejad wanted to use this as a way of building up a store of b good wl just before he came to new york. it didn t work that way. and i think he was hwes plan were really screwed up by the fact that all of these hard liners in iran, the conservatives who are supposed to be his friends, are all attacking him le and right. and they re opposing him on everything he does. they wanted tomb eanarrass him a little bit, and i think they succeeded. reporter: hes hopeful shourd will be released and said it s not uncommon for iran to