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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handed future presidents a, quote, loaded weapon, in the words of a dissenting justice, aimed straight at the rule of law in the country. the conservative 6-3 majority of the court, half of them appointed by ex-president donald trump, two others have been faced calls for their recusal in this very case, a potentially fatal blow to council jack smith s effort to hold the president accountable for crimes committed on january 6th in the insurrection and the plot to overturn the 2020 election he lost. they ruled that donald trump and all future presidents are entitled to immunity for official acts, that they take during their presidency. now there is a question of whether a president can order a seal team 6 or assassinate a political rival, the united states supreme court said in effect, yeah, maybe. regarding jack smith s prosecution of donald trump, the court is sending that case back to judge tonya chutkan to parse out what is an official act in which trump is entitled to comp
Hearings. obviously you refer to pence. i know you all didn t have a chance to interview him. so obviously the there is some information from that. i m also curious, because look, 45 pages. he knows he has a lot of information he didn t include. you know you ve got to make choices. how much paula reid was referring to this question. how much do you think he is holding back. do you think there are some real gems he is holding back, but really crucial pieces of information or no? yeah, potentially. again, i don t think he is holding back anything, any part of the core conduct. okay. i think he has laid out the three objectives of a cone spirs and essentially sketched out the pattern that he is going to prove. i m certain that he has left out some details, some specific conversations, some events, specific allegations. that s common. a prosecutor would never put absolutely every fact that he or
Some information from that, but i m also curious. 45 pages, we know that he has a lot of information that he didn t include and you know that you ve got to make choices. so, how much, paula reid was referring to this, this question, how much do you think he is holding back? do you think there is real jabs that he is holding back. i don t know what the right were, despite crucial pieces of information, or no? potentially. again, i don t think he is holding back anything, any part of the core conduct. i think he is laid out some objects of conspiracy, and essentially sketched out the pattern that he is going to prove. i am certain that he is left out details, some specific conversations, and specific events and allegations, that is a common. a prosecutor would never put absolutely every fact that he or she has gathered in an indictment. this is a pretty detailed, but