Results of the president ial election. Coming up, well dig deeper into the indictment and the former president s defense. Can trump be charged with lying if he believes what he said was true . The answer may hinge, at least in part, at least on district judge Tanya Chutkan, a vet ran on cases involving january 6th defendants. What members of congress are claiming and will it be a jury of his peers or the electorate who render the final verdict . We begin with tomorrows arraignment in a d. C. Federal court where donald trump will be formally charged for repeatedly spreading lies as part of an elaborate criminal scheme with the ultimate goal to hang on to power by any means necessary. In fact, trump is raising four federal counts including three conspiracy, to defraud the United States, to obstruct an official proceeding and to impede the peoples right to vote. Ever since the news broke, the former president , his allies and attorneys have been working furiously to smear jack smith and t
just after the top of the hour, i m john berman. and i m bianna golodryga. prosecutors say he s been charged with the murder of his still missing wife. that s just the beginning. some of his searching were extraordinarily gruesome. prosecutors say evidence of blood was found in walshe s car, and he found protective suits, mops, cleaning supplies. we re outside the courthouse. this was an extraordinary level of detail, bryn, some of which we never have heard before. reporter: just stunning detail of the actions the prosecutors say brian walshe took after his wife ana disappeared, not before, but after. a number of google searches on his son s ipad. take a listen to just some of them. at 4:55 a.m., he searched how long before a body starts to smell. at 4:58 a.m., how to stop a body from decomposing. at 5:20 a.m., and 5:47, ten ways to dispose of a dead body if you really need to. at 6:25 on the 1st, how long for someone to be missing to inherit. at 6:45 on january 1st,
there are other aspects related to the department of justice and to mike pence as well laid out in the indictment. pretty clearly suggests that raffensperger has the wrong person in terms of who committed a crime here. i want to ask about the michigan house speaker because he pushed back consistently about the repeated claims of voter fraud in his state. he said, quote, i fought hard for president trump. nobody wanted him to win more than me. i can t fathom risking our norms, traditions and institutions to pass a resolution retroactively changing the electors for trump. that s unprecedented for a good reason. to a jury, how beneficial is it to hear statements like this from, in fact, many republican officials who supported the former president in the election, wanted him to continue leading the country but in the end said, you didn t win. the fact that this case, just
omar jimenez is here with more. one single race, but how did this happen? this says it goes back to july. they were reinstalling software, and there was an error where basically a step was missed that would have stopped votes from being double counted. that didn t happen. we got to november, and apparently a technician inadvertently counted votes twice. this changes the results of one of the races, a lot school board race that initially went down to 20 votes. obviously no steve clayton, he thought he won, and yesterday he found out no so fast, you didn t win. he told me it s been very difficult. i was elected, certified the winner, got sworn in before friends and family on january 3rd, worked hard to return to the board he had served previously walked 21 files