Our special breaking News Coverage continues now of the third, he has a third, criminal indictment of former President Donald Trump. Im laura coates. Remember. Not the news tonight, still stunning, even though people expect an indictment to come right now it is here. We have believed it sink in. The 45th president indicted by a grand jury and jack smiths investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. And its not lost on anyone that, while trump is facing charges over the last election, he is, of course, in the middle of his reelection campaign, flora. This is the third time, the third time that donald trump has been criminally indicted informants at this point . Special counsel jack smith charged him in the classified documents probe in june, and the Manhattan Grand Jury charge of the former president for Business Fraud back in march and just listen to what Special Counsel jack smith had to say tonight. The attack on our nations capital, on january six 2021, was an unprecede
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Unquestionably is a too crazy for conviction defense that they will have, and that specific statement is going to be very important. it is damning in that regard, although interesting that your best defense is being a narcissistic sociopath. if such as the rate you go than you are being told 1 million times that this was false, and yet you continue to perpetuate the law is. congressman bolton, where appreciate your time. thank. you and my panel is back. karen, one thing that the congressman was just talking about, this we are talking about this incident where there is a meeting on the evening of january 3rd, the president of national security team are together, they re talking about an incident, a situation that has nothing to do with us. and actions are recommended and the defendant, president trump, calmly says yeah, you are right, it s too late for us, we re going to give that to the next guy. look, this immediately stood out to all of us as very significant because he s clear
January 6th and his efforts is convinced to say it nicely mike pence to throw the election for donald trump. that is a critical, critical piece of evidence. yep. because the defense will be that donald trump is such a narcissistic sociopath that he actually believed his own false statements and his own disinformation. and therefore he doesn t have the necessary mens rea, the intent and knowledge to commit a crime. that s not a legitimate defense when you are faced with facts and you just simply choose not to believe them. that would mean that almost no defendant could be ever convicted of fraud. but that is unquestionably the too crazy for conviction defense that they will have. and that specific statement is going to be very important. is damning in that regard,