2 1 2 years after a mob of his supporters attacked the u. S. Capitol, donald j. Trump has been charged in the effort to overturn the election he lost which culminated in such violence to people, property and democracy that day. If you are just joining us, im here in new york alongside jake tapper In Washington and Kaitlin Collins outside the d. C. Federal courthouse where the former president will be arraigned thursday afternoon. Anderson, we just heard from the d. C. Metro police, the department saying they are working with federal Law Enforcement in preparation for the arraignment on thursday. As for Special Counsel jack smith from whom we last heard after the first of now two federal indictments in the documents case, he spoke again briefly this evening. Take a listen. The attack on our Nations Capital on january 6th, 2021 was an unprecedented assault on the seat of american democracy. Its described in the indictment, it was fueled by lies. Lies by the defendant, targeted at obstruc
believe he could make is i thought that i had won. i didn t. i was wrong. i was too fool oh to realize that but donald trump will knot do this. this from what i get from john lauro will turn into the show trial and go to seven states and relitigate the election was stolen and try to drag this on, drag the american bub through it past election day and who knows what happens. on the timing of this, you know, his point is, well, it took 2 1/2 years to bring charges, you you want us to we should have all the time in the world to defend our client. they re trying to have it both ways, obviously, by making that argument. i think that they don t need that much time, because these things have been thoroughly litigated. i mean these have been battled out rejected out of hand every single time which goes to why i didn t rely on the advice of counsel in good faith. he was getting feedback in realtime from the courts as well as from the responsible