Before the 2024 election, the judge unseal Jack Smith hundred and 65, Page Argument for why Donald Trump should still face charges from trying to overturn the law i asked one, well tell you whats new and whether or not his revised case might survive a Supreme Court can also tonight, John King all over the map on this young voters in michigan who has ties the middle later, Gary Tuchman, walking some of the worst Hit Parts of hurricane Helenes Path of destruction. Were even almost a week later, the only way in by air or on foot good evening. Thanks for joining us. We begin with Breaking News in the case of conservative supreme Court Majority put on hold, if not on ice, late today. Judge Tanya Chutkin unsealed. Special counsel, Jack Smiths argument for reviving the Election Interference Case against Donald Trump Now Smith has reframed the charges in a way he hopes will now conform to the Supreme Courts ruling on president ial immunity. And was stan what will all but certainly be more scru
Developments in Donald Trumps ongoing legal battles. In a newly unsealed brief in response to the supreme Courts President ial Immunity Ruling, special Counsel Jack Smith gives us the clearest view yet of his 2020 Election Interference Case against the former president. Smith asserts trump acted as a private candidate and not as president , when he tried to overturn the Election Results and resorted to crimes to stay in office. It also provides new evidence about Trumps Phone Usage and the conversations he had on the 6th Of January, as the riots were unfolding at the capitol. Quote, beginning at about 150. 30 p. M. , the defendant settled in the Dining Room off of the oval office. He spent the afternoon there reviewing twitter on his phone, while the Dining Room television played Fox News contemporaneous coverage of events at the capitol. Citing testimony, the filing says that when trump was informed his Vice President had to be rushed to a secure location after trump attacked pence in
The trump campaign. And this is cnn im Jake Tapper and we are following this Breaking News with the 2024 election just one month away. We now have the clearest picture yet of how federal prosecutors specifically special Counsel Jack Smith say that former President Trump tried to vertical law and undermine the 2020 election, its a 165 Page Court Filing that was just unsealed by a federal judge minutes ago. The office of special Counsel Smith lays out this case for a Trial Judge in a way that they think would overcome President Trumps president ial Immunity Protections as outlined by the Supreme Court earlier this year. Prosecutors say that trump was directly involved in the plot to nominate fake electors. They also tried to show that trump was aware that he lost flaccid, but told the staffer, quote, the details, dont matter unquote lets bring in our team of intrepid reporters who have been combing through this filing. Let me start with you, Paula Walk walk us through the major headlines
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Audio or lighting engineer, a Makeup Artist or a Camera Operator other than that, everything should be fine. So, forgive me for everything that inevitably goes wrong. But im happy to have you here and thank you for being here. We have a lot to get to tonight. He was a late hire to the Trump Administration and they did not hire him until year four of the Trump Administration. They hired him in march 2020. The administration hired a new lawyer to work in Vice President pences office. A guy named Gregory Jacob. This was not Gregory Jacobs first stint in federal government. He worked in the george abiy Bush Administration previously. He had been a lawyer who worked On Labor Issues in the george w. Bush administration. But when it came back to Government Service in March Of 2020 he came back for a big time job and we chief Legal Counsel and of course Gregory Jacobs did not last a full year in that job because he started in march 2020 and the Trump Administration did not last till 2021 and t