Of course, thank you for joining us. Cnn prime time with laura coates starts right now. Wow, that was a really fascinating interview. Weve all been leaning in to say what bill barr had to say. A lot of wanting to see what he had to say. Thank you for joining us here in washington, d. C. Its a Capitol On High alert tonight . Why . Because the nation is bracing for the arrest and arraignment of a former president. Should i say again the third time in three months. He will appear in Court Tomorrow as expected, and now his third indictment on charges of trying to overturn an election. And we learned on cnn the Secret Service has already done a walk through of the courthouse and Law Enforcement is even monitoring any potential threats. Meantime, everyone, were getting an early look at what his potential Defense Strategy might be including whats called this is not my term but the dilution defense, that he actually believed his own lies. Plus the suggestion hes about to throw his Legal Advise
got an amazing group of legal experts standing by and dissect and walk through all of this. but first i want to begin with cnn s foreign affairs correspondent paula reid. paula, bill barr setup today s developments, so i want to know what do we now know tonight about what the plan is for trump to build a defense? we re starting to see the broad contours of a legal defense here, and they re really trying to hit on this idea of infringing on his freedom of speech and saying that here the government has allegedly criminalized political speech. but what that fails to take into consideration is the fact the indictment outlines exactly how this went so much further than just words and lays out the specific series of alleged actions the former president took. in the alternative they re also arguing this good faithful leap, that the former president really believed that the election had been stolen. but prosecutors were one step ahead of him laying out in the indictment multiple instances wh