The wall street Journal Editorial Board said this will be a Campaign Carnival that rotates between courtrooms, rallies around the prosecution of a former president that they write is able to convince most americans that this rather, the courts have been unable to convince most americans that these indictments are just brought. Theres not broad acceptance of that across the board. The Wall Street Journal saying unless you have that broad acceptance that that there was no other chance for these indictments, that could present a combination that could be difficult and dangerous months ahead. Were going to talk to the former Vice President , mike pence, a crucial player in everything that has unfolded in many ways on the Campaign Trail and also back during the president presidency. Jonathan turley says this case is free speech killing and john yoo who calls the charges a stretch. Lets go to david spunt live with the very latest on all of this and what to expect tomorrow at the just its the
On felony charge, this time for alleged crimes against democracy itself. Good evening in new york. Im Anderson Cooper and jake tapper in washington. And anderson, unlike the first two arraignments in new york and florida, this one was held within view of the crime scene. The u. S. Capitol at a federal courthouse where dozens of members of the violent mob that he incited, he incited hundreds really have already been convicted and sent to prison. The actual proceedings which were led by a Magistrate Judge took 27 minutes. The four counts connected though his attempt to overturn the election that he lost. His next Court Date Set for the 28th in front of the trial judge, tanya chutkan, who is expected to set a trial date. Now a short time later after the sentencing on the tarmac at Reagan National airport, holding an umbrella handed to him by his bodyman and documents case codefendant walt nauta, the he made the following remarks about the nations capitol. This is a very sad day for americ
mar-a-lago. leyla, tell us about this search because it was a complete surprise to everyone. reporter: right, and today, a day later, we re starting to hear everyone sort of give their thoughts on that. the family, the trump family speaking out. we ll let you hear from eric in just a bit, but also here on the ground. i can tell you you re really starting to see that political divide. a lot of supporters coming out, as and so yeah i ve heard multiple times trump won as folks drive by. i ve also heard people say lock him up. just behind mar-a-lago, which is right there, the primary residence of the former president donald trump, you re starting to see protesters but overwhelming supporters who are coming out in reaction to the news. so something that is clearly riling up his base. in terms of the search warrant itself, the execution of the search warrant by the fbi, there are still a lot of questions that remain unanswered. we know from sources familiar with the investigation
investigation and possibly chill witness cooperation. jessica schneider is here with the breaking details. what has the judge agreed to release? reporter: the judge has already made one crucial decision here. he says that he will unseal some relatively minor filings from the doj and this was something that the doj had said would be fine in their court filing, so the things that will be unsealed. it includes the department s motion to seal the warrant documents, also the court s order granting that motion to seal, and the criminal cover sheets here from the warrant application. the search warrant affidavit. so, those are relatively procedural, general information documents that will be unsealed. crucially, though, any information in those three documents that contain information about doj personnel, like names and contact information, that will all be redacted. so likely, what we re going to see later this afternoon won t contain anything substantive. it will just reveal som
terrified of the thought of having to return to school in a few short weeks that she comes to tears. what will you tell her? i can assure you that my children are not mentally prepared to return to campus and i husband and i are unwilling to send them. reporter: now, the school administration said they are considering virtual schooling, but that, of course, still needs to be determined. as for the latest on the investigation, texas department of public safety telling cnn that its ongoing criminal, and the key word here is criminal, its ongoing criminal investigation is also examining the actions of law enforcement. and, kaitlan, that s important because we hadn t heard this before from the lead investigating agency. and so the latest is that they are looking at the actions or in this case the inaction of law enforcement, but as you know, it would be up to the d.a. to charge anyone in this case. yeah, and i know the families want to know exactly what s happening there. las