months, the former president of the united states has been indicted, arrested, and a range. and let s face it, we ve become oddly familiar with how this all goes. there s the release of the indictment itself, helicopters following black suvs, and of course, the court sketches, all followed by a barrage of deranged posts on truth social. there s a bit of a rinse and repeat feeling that starting to set in. but this one did feel different, because it is different. it felt bigger, because it is bigger. the indictment filed by special counsel jack smith this week detailed the ways in which an american president engaged in a criminal conspiracy from the oval office to subvert the will of the people. of course, like any criminal defendant, trump is innocent until proven guilty. there will be a trial, and his legal team will mount a defense. but no matter how it ends, this is the one that historians will be talking about 100 years from now. trump is now facing four criminal counts in
to possible witness intimidation, to questionable defense arguments. 100 questions for and andrew weissmann. and later, served as an impeachment manager and on the january six committee. congressman jamie raskin joins me live to discuss his reactions to the charges and what she is watching for next. for the third time informants, the former president of the united states has been indicted, arrested, and arraigned. let s face, that we have become oddly familiar with how this all goes. there is the release of the indictment itself, helicopters falling blackest movies, and of course, the court sketches, all followed by a barrage of deranged posts on so there is a rinse and repeat feeling that starting to sudden. this one did feel different because it is different. felt bigger because it is bigger. the indictment filed by special counsel jack smith this week detailed the ways in which an american president engaged in a criminal conspiracy from the oval office to subvert the w
Xfinity rewards creates experiences big and small, and once-in-a-lifetime. okay, for full transparency, like most of you watching, i am not a lawyer. but you don t exactly need to be avid to recognize that the arguments by trump s legal team
Trump said, quote, can you believe, i lost to this guy. so, just to recap, trump really can t claim free speech here. he can t claim that lawyers. all of whom are coconspirators anyway. and he can t really claim ignorance because that s not exactly believable. so, with such a weak legal defense, watch what trump and his allies will do now. it is a predictable and unfortunately a familiar playbook, delay, confuse, make a lot of noise. trump s lawyers apparently busier running a media blitz rather than handling his defense. just this morning, some of the defenses that were filed sunday morning shows. trump s defenders are already attacking the judge and saying that it is somehow impossible for the legal system to work correctly in washington, d.c.. they will lose this confusion and noise to delay the trial as long as they can because the longer it goes on, the closer he comes to trying to get back into office because the real goal for him to get elected and shut it escapes down. up next,
You know, more than a century. i mean, until donald trump, we never had anybody, much less a president of the united states, try to incite a violent insurrection and give aid and comfort to insurrectionists. as donald trump has done. we thought there was overwhelming evidence of that, you know, he called them a great heroes, i ll never forget this day. he continued to praise them. he s talking about pardoning all of them, including, you know, people who violently assaulted police officers or pled guilty to seditious conspiracy, which means conspiracy to overthrow the government. so, i figured that he probably wanted to avoid a big debate about freedom of speech and whether trump was just engaged in speech when it came to egging on the insurrectionists. i mean, everything else he s pled donald trump was integrally involved in the action of conspiring to defraud the american public by