Person to be charged in connection with the insurrection according to one count is a former president and a current front runner for the nomination of a Major Political party who is already facing 74 criminal counts. Who stands accused of trying to defraud the government that he led at that time. Trying to obstruct the proceedings of a branch of government and trying to overturn the will of millions of voters in the swing states that determined the outcome of the Electoral College. The big question now that trump has been booked and fingerprinted, whats next in this case . Which is really unlike any other in American History. Here is what team trump has planned according to the New York Times. His lawyers used the arraignment to hint at one of his central defense strategies, a request to delay a second pending federal trial for months if not years. Delaying the proceedings as much as possible is widely expected to be part of mr. Trumps legal strategy given that he could effectively cal
hosted by alex witt will start at 5:00 a.m. eastern. that is going to do it for me. deadline white house begins right now. hi there, everyone. happy friday. it s 4:00 in new york. donald trump s once loyal attorney general bill barr recently said that the classified documents probe was the most threatening to trump, and brand new reporting in the new york times reveals why that may be the case. new york times out with some blockbuster new reporting that shows that special counsel jack smith is leaving no stone unturned in his pursuit of answers to questions about trump s conduct. namely, whether he sought to obstruct efforts by the government to get back classified documents. some of which contained incredibly sensitive national security secrets. from that new times story, quote, federal prosecutors investigating former president trump s handling of classified documents have obtained the confidential cooperation of a person who has worked for him at mar-a-lago. it
Suggests speech that s evidence of other criminal activity isn t protected in this sort of way. i do think the dynamics will be interestingly overlapping. the free speech/first amendment defense is a defense i had some first amendment right to speak in a particular way, and the reliance on an attorney defense is a defense that i had a right to rely on other people s communications. they are also riddle with difficulties that i think folks will be poke holes at. as all of these theories are being workshopped, you have trump very active on social media, he posted if you go after me, i m coming after you.
To take this deal to sit down and be able to say what i know. which kind of raises the question, though, nicolle, some of the electors have been interviewed if not testified concerning what happened when they convened illegally and improperly to be able to vote in a different slate than one that would have elected joe biden. it kind of suggests to me is there the possibility that they weren t forth right. maybe they weren t completely telling the truth. the other complicating issue, they re all represented by the same attorney defense. that is not a problem if they ve waived any potential con flick of interest. but we do know from reporting that there are some electors that one did commit a crime. so it is very complex and it is very complicated. but i think this gets fani willis one definitive step closer to being able to say who am i going to fill in the blanks
Is not right for the government to sensor and coerce the speech because it does not agree with m mmy belief. whether their bels is the same as mine or different, for people to do that without the government punishing some of us. that was laurie smith with shannon bream and now to talk about the legal implication, let s bring in our attorney defense brian. it is all about free speech and her attorney argued this for the supreme court saying the following. the first amendment is clear, the government can t dictate what we say and don t say. in laurie s case the free speech threat is especially severe. the conservative justices appeared to be compelled by this argument