Counts against mr. Trump, handed up last night by a grand jury after a 2 1 2 year investigation conducted by District Attorney willis in georgia. Willis writes, quote, defendant donald trump lost the election. One of the states he lost was georgia. Trump and the other defendants charged in this Indictment Refuse to accept that trump lost. They knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of trump. Among those codefendants, some of the most wellknown people in the former president s orbit during his final days in office. Including his white house chief of staff, mark meadows, personal attorney and former new york city mayor, rudy giuliani, jeffrey clark, who tried to assert significant election concerns had been identified, and a string of lawyers, including john eastman, Sidney Powell and speaking to the press just before midnight, she rejected trumps accusation on social media that she was persecuting him for political reasons.
The criminal indictment weve covered in manhattan, florida, and washington, d. C. Mr. Trump continuing his unrelenting attacks against d. A. Fani will is throughout the morning, claiming that this prosecution is the latest, quote, witch hunt against him. Mr. Trump is also promising a press conference next monday morning, where he is going to release some reports that he says it will improve there was Election Fraud despite multiple court cases, saying he won the presidency fair and square. And the campaign as with previous indictments have addressed a flurry of Fundraising Emails to try to turn this latest legal woe to financial gain. Garrett haake is here, katie phang, Chuck Rosenberg, msnbc legal analyst lisa ruben and former fbi general counsel. Chuck rosenberg, power panel, and i will start with you if i can. When i read this social media post by donald trump, he promised a large complex and detailed report by monday, to refute this indictment. Is it bound with footnotes and where
t the lead starts right now. ukraine is pushing, pushing, pushing. cnn is live as the 31 nations meet. and why special counsel is accusing donald trump s right-hand man of trying to delay the prosecution of him. and the once in a thousand year rainfall behind devastating flooding in parts of america ears noamerica s northeast, trapping drivers in cars and on roads and forcing some to swim to safety. we start today with our word lead. the president in lithuania with one goal on his list unity. ukraine will be the main focus of the two-day meeting but for a group that has been, frankly, stunningly united, there are public fractures in the alliance starting to emerge, ones president biden will have to fix over the next few days, mainly overs decision to send cluster bombs to the front line, one that has been banned by most of the allies who will be sitting around president biden at that table in lithuania. they will have to decide when and how they will let ukraine join
2020 election. we re still not done. an nbc news analysis finds jack smith s grand jury has interviewed dozens of witnesses from little known campaign aides to the former vice president of the united states. and smith s questions are, quote, focused particularly on the fake elector scheme. smith is also said to be focused on that unhinged december 18th oval office meeting about seizing voting machines. the meeting was full of insults and conspiracy theory, concerning powell, michael flynn. here s how the people in the room described that december 18th meeting. someone screamed at me that i was a quitter, kept on standing up and turning and around screaming at me. they were fighting. the first thing i walked in and i looked at them and said who are you? people fighting with each other and hurling insults at each other. what they were proposing i thought was nuts. how nuts was it? this was the draft executive or they were pushing trump to sign: it was not written
hello, everyone. this is don lemon tonight. thanks so much for joining. if i actually wrote all of this for hbo max, you would say, no! no way. that didn t happen. you almost have to remind yourself that actually happened. that a president of the united states, right? refused to accept the results of our free and fair election. tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power that makes us a democracy. try to hold on to power for himself. they ignored the will of the people. you will set to remind yourself that it actually happened. it did. today, we learned a lot more about how it actually happened. the testimony from witness after witness after witness about the shameful episodes in our history, a lot of it, never before seen. i m going to play with what they play with the people to hear. i m gonna play it for you. the biggest bombshell came the last few minutes. this is what liz cheney had to say. after our last hearing, president trump tried to call a witness in our investi