Person to be charged in connection with the insurrection according to one count is a former president and a current front runner for the nomination of a Major Political party who is already facing 74 criminal counts. Who stands accused of trying to defraud the government that he led at that time. Trying to obstruct the proceedings of a branch of government and trying to overturn the will of millions of voters in the swing states that determined the outcome of the Electoral College. The big question now that trump has been booked and fingerprinted, whats next in this case . Which is really unlike any other in American History. Here is what team trump has planned according to the New York Times. His lawyers used the arraignment to hint at one of his central defense strategies, a request to delay a second pending federal trial for months if not years. Delaying the proceedings as much as possible is widely expected to be part of mr. Trumps legal strategy given that he could effectively cal
4:00 in new york. today, monumental breakthrough in the sometimes frustrating pursuit and pace of accountability and justice. the aftermath of the deadly attack on the u.s. capitol. in the 785 days since the insurrection he incited, donald trump has managed to squirm his way through an impeachment, wiggle past the bipartisan congressional investigation, stretching presidential immunity to great effect so far. now the justice department says in a brand-new court filing, such immunity should not shield donald trump from multiple civil suits brought by police officers and members of congress. in that new filing, in the course of urging an appeals court to reject trump s immunity claim, the justice department was very careful to avoid taking a position on whether trump is actually liable for causing the riot. the new action does open new doors of potential accountability for him. doj s essentially telling the court it does not believe trump can use immunity to avoid civil litigat
The first amendment would have played a biggser role here if special counsel had charged trump with directly inciting the riot it is extremely difficult to convict someone of inciting violence, but that s not a charge in this indictment. which may have well been a strategic count. the four charges against, conspiracy to dwraut the united states, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. conspiracy against rights. yesterday s arraignment, trump pleaded not guilty, and the first pretrial hearing is just over three weeks ago. that s where we start in the hour. let s first in first amendment scholar, rolando jones, and
Fox ignores dominion s massive effort to convince fox to stop airing the lies. quote, dominion sent 3,682 emails to fox recipients, which were then widely circulated within fox. dominion put their fact sheets spelling out the lies being broadcast on fox on blast. one fox news executive said it felt like he, quote, had dominion s emails tattooed on my body. tattooed on his body. he knew them, he saw them, and yet fox news continued airing the lies about dominion. joining us now, npr news media correspondent david fulcom and rana anderson jones is here, a former clerk for supreme court justice sandra day o connor, first amendment scholar.