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Welcome to cnn news central. 24 hours from now we expect to see donald trump on his way to Federal Court here in washington scheduled to make his First Court Appearance after term prosecutors charged him with four separate counts in a sweeping indictment. Special counsel alleges trump was central in a plot to overturn the 2020 election. The indictment also says he had help coconspirators. It repeatedly references six coconspirators. Cnn has been able to identify five of those six. They are former Trump Lawyers rudy giuliani, john eastman and sidney powell, former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark and protrump lawyer kenneth chesebro. I want to go to zach cohen. Tell us what we should expect to ....
6th when people lose confidence in their government. yeah, well, charles ramsey made the point last hour, he s concerned about whether that could potentially fuel violence as well. oliver, thanks so much. brianna. all right, jim, let s zero in on this fake electors scheme aspect of this indictment. the scheme encompassed seven state, seven targeted states that trump lost and the goal according to the indictment was to submit illegitimate pro-trump electors to congress in order to, quote, create a fake controversy at the certification proceeding. now, one of the states at the heart of that plot mentioned dozens of times in the indictment was michigan and we are joined by a key official who stood in the way of that effort, that is michigan secretary of state jocelyn benson. secretary benson, thank you so much for being with us today and spending some time with us. 16 fake electors have been charged as you are well aware by your attorney general there in michigan. jack smith refers to ....