former president trump now making his way back to his golf club in new jersey. earlier pleading not guilty to four criminal counts tied to alleges that he conspired to overturn the 2020 election. and that courthouse where he was is symbolically so crucial. just blocks from where trump supporters stormed the capitol on january 6th. an insurrection fueled by what the indictment calls trump s pervasive lies and election fraud. today s 27-minute hearing marks his third arraignment in just four months. our reporter in the courtroom said trump appeared angry, his hands collapsed as he stared straight ahead. we re also told he had what appeared to be some heated conversations with his attorney, todd blanch. the judge also sitting, setting the next hearing for august 28th. which is just days after the first republican primary debate. and wolf, trump responding to today s hearing speaking briefly to reporters. he railed against the judge. in the hearing. when you look at what s
Figure out whether they might be chgewith it. there s somethinose people have said that you know could be used against the former president. we know for instance that the special counsel s investigation is continuing. we expect he s going to have the former new york police commissioner coming in for an interview in the coming days and of course he was working closely with the person who is called coconspirator number one in this indictment. they were working closely together to try to figure out how to put together the idea that there was fraud. rudy giuliani was on the phone with senators and members of congress trying to pressure them to try to delay this certification. so very, very interesting days. for this investigation. we know there are charges that are coming and whether they re coming soon.
And we know how the maga supporters feel. we know there are about a third of republican primary voters according to recent polls who are still able to be persuaded. one way or another. if you re a candidate who doesn t want to talk about it, in the end, because it s not going to help you with the republican base. we all understand that. in the end, you re going to have to talk about these indictments particularly the one we witnesses today, which is about the future of american democracy. how can you avoid it? you can t. guys, everybody stay with us. we ve got a lot more to assess. a lot more news we re following. stay with us. good evening and welcome to a special edition of outfront. i m erin burnett along with wolf blitzer in washington and you are looking at live pictures of
Venue. the idea he won t get a fair shake in d.c. 10% of people voted for trump. they re making a political argument there. exactly. it s political. it s not a legal argument. that will not work in a courtroom. if you make that argument in a courtroom, they ll probably just lose the entire question because that s not how the system works. the system would never base it on that. th that s why also the justice department could not instead of bringing the classify documents case in florida, bring it in d.c., they can never say that. they couldn t say that in a room in the justice department that that would be a legitimate calculation. the law doesn t hear that. because we think the system can hold and we can get jurors to be impartial. in the courtroom, there were reporters, we didn t have cameras, but there were reporters. kaitlyn was one and you were able to watch trump throughout this tell us about what you saw.
That al gore did. but were any of them prosecuted? were any of them put in jail? when hillary clinton said it, nothing happened to her. when they said it in georgia s election, nothing happened to them either. you know what? when the dnc said it, nothing happened to them either. hillary clinton conceded the race in the aftermath of her loss to donald trump in 2016. even as the speaker continued to say there are two different standards of justice, he pivoted to joe biden and hunter biden and those two not facing any sort of prosecution, he also made clear, erin, what the focus of house republicans will be in the fall, which is to continue to investigate joe biden s ties to hunter biden, any work with hunter biden in his business dealings suggesting that the house could open an impeachment inquiry, not looking into the former president s actions, but into the current president, which could be a big focus of republicans in the fall as he argues there are two standards of justice in the