Good evening. Im mehdi hasan. The insanity defense. That is what the Trump Legal Team seems to be offering this week in the wake of Special Counsel jack smiths stunning and damning 45page indictment, excuse, me of the former president , charging him with conspiracy to defraud the United States, obstruction and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy to violate rights. All charges fueled by his lies per the indictment. The trump team saying, though, he wasnt lying, he truly believed he won the election. Which, if he truly believed that, would of course be insane. But its not true, as smiths and item notes, trump was informed by members of his own campaign and legal teams that he had indeed, lost there was no massive fraud involved. Trump himself is quoted in the indictment telling mike pence after his own Vice President told him that he, mike, pence had no Constitutional Authority to reject the vote on January The 6th, quote, youre too honest. Best of all, one of t
Running back the presidency. Never getting a glimpse a part of his defense. Quickness is unprecedented. It affects not just donald trump, it affects every american who now realize the First Amendment is under Assault Progress Trump attorney john lauro joins us like to detailing Teams Legal Strategy then. Republicans release the closeddoor transcript of devon archers testimony about his Business Dealings and the president s son, hunter and the allure of the biden brand. None of those conversations ever had to do with any Business Dealings or transactions buried there purely what he called casual conversations because everyone understands that as the brand, that is the access it. It was not an illusion of access for. Completing narratives with members of House Republican chip wright of texas and Jake Auchincloss a democrat of massachusetts. Another republican president ial hopeful meets with Volodymyr Zelenskyy and kyiv. Quick to need to be with ukraine on this Fight Progress Gop Field i
Election. Some state Election Officials have objected to trump collation of the constitutions 14th Amendment, which bars any person who engaged in a rebellion or insurrection from Holding Public office. Lets bring in cnn chief anchor and chief Political Correspondent dana bash and cnn senior legal analyst, elie honig. Guys, as were waiting to see what the Supreme Court decides here, lets do a little bit of a pregame because we dont want to presuppose what the Supreme Court is going to do but elie all weekend long were anticipating this could happen before the colorado primary as part of Super Tuesday and then yesterday, there was this indication from the Supreme Court that somethings coming down, somethings cooking. Yeah. We dont know for sure that this is going to be colorado, but all indications are that it will be because the primary is tomorrow, colorado how his voting tomorrow and it would make sense for the Supreme Court to decide its needs to interrupt you because i got to inter
Good evening. Im mehdi hasan. The insanity defense. That is what the Trump Legal Team seems to be offering this week in the wake of Special Counsel jack smiths stunning and damning 45page indictment, excuse, me of the former president , charging him with conspiracy to defraud the United States, obstruction and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy to violate rights. All charges fueled by his lies per the indictment. The trump team saying, though, he wasnt lying, he truly believed he won the election. Which, if he truly believed that, would of course be insane. But its not true, as smiths and item notes, trump was informed by members of his own campaign and legal teams that he had indeed, lost there was no massive fraud involved. Trump himself is quoted in the indictment telling mike pence after his own Vice President told him that he, mike, pence had no Constitutional Authority to reject the vote on January The 6th, quote, youre too honest. Best of all, one of t
The first one is Conspiracy To Defraud the United States. Second is the conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. And then the conspiracy against rights. Thats, of course, the Voting Rights of u. S. Citizens around the country. Now, ill read you just a part where the Special Counsel describes what theormer president is accused of dog here. It says that the defendant spread lies, that there had been outcome determinative fraud in the election and that he had actually won. These claims were false. And the defendant knew that they were false. But the defendant repeated and widely disseminated them anyway to make his knowingly false claims appear legitimate. According to the prosecutors, wolf, the former president disregarded the advice of all of his appointed officials, people inside his own government, his experts, people from the Justice Department, people from the intelligence community, people from the Homeland Security department, all of whom were telling him that there was no s