Mobile made free event. With our business internet, new and existing customers can get one year of unlimited mobile for free. Its our best internet. Powered by The Next Generation 10g network and with 99. 9 reliability. Plus one line of free mobile for an entire year. Its the mobile made free eventhappening now. Get started for just 49. 99 a month. Plus, ask how to get one free line of unlimited mobile. Comcast business, powering possibilities. Our special breaking News Coverage continues now of the third, yes, third criminal indictment of former President Donald Trump. Im lara coates. And im erin burnett. The news tonight still stunning, even though people expected an indictment to come. Right now its here. You have to let it sink in. The 45th president indicted by a Federal Grand Jury in 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 reel
meadows is asking a federal judge to block her from arresting him. while he tries to move his case to federal court. and all this is happening as the stage is set for the 1st republican primary debate in milwaukee.né ron desantis and vivek will be centersf&> position. cnn this morning starts right now. we begin this morning with breaking news. two more of donald trump s co-defendants have surrenderered at the fulton county can jail as trump prepares to turn himself in for the attempt to overturn the election results. they were arrested and booked in the early morning hours. you ll remember the former chair of the georgia republican party allegedly conveneed fake el electors to declare trump the winner. kathy was wasn t of the fake
aaron, the indictment refers to people as six individuals who trump enlisted to assist him in his criminal behavior. we have identified five of the six people that are described in this indictment. and if you follow it along during the january 6th committee hears, none of the names will really come as a surprise. they include people like trump s former personal attorney, rudy giuliani, attorney john eastman, and even people like jeffrey clark, the formal doj who is trying to use the justice department to overturn the 2020. like paula said, a lot of this information was publicly known, which is how we were able to identify in part some of these folks. the unidentified person is described as a political consultant who helped implement a central theme the fake el electors plot. this is really one of the cornerstones of jack smith s case here. he said trump and these six individuals tried to trick these electors in the seven state tots sign the certificates asserting
who gets to count what votes count. literally, not figtively. you vote for certain electors, they vote for somebody for president. state legislature comes along and say we don t like those el electors. we re going to go for the other guy or the other woman. in 2020, democracy was put to a test. first by the pandemic. then by a desperate attempt to deny the reality of the results of the election, and then by violent and deadly insurrection on the capitol, the citadel of our democracy. i ve been around a long time in public life, i thought i ve seen it all or most of it all. i never thought i d see that,