Our Special Coverage continues now on the arrest and arraignment of donald trump. Im wolf blitzer alongside laura coates. Truly an extraordinary and unprecedented day right here in washington, d. C. I mean the former president at one point was in the custody of the very government he allegedly tried to overthrow, just a mere step or two from the center of democracy of supporters even attacked on january 6th in the culmination of the plot to overture election. Onald j. Trump arres arraigned for the third time in four months on four federal charges including conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, conspiracy against rights. The next hearing now scheduled for august 28th when the judge intends to set a trial date. And donald trump was standing up in court today, and he actually pleaded not guilty to all four of those criminal charges. And before boarding his private plane to return to new jersey, he was railing against the indictment and try
someone else on that very point? well, here s what i want to say. if you go through this indictment and look at those list of witnesses, i was a former prosecutor for a long time. i am salivating because everyone of those witnesses including mark meadows and all the campaign people including steven miller, they knew he lost the election. i want to go back to 1960. john f. kennedy got 306 electoral votes. he beat richard nixon by 118,000 votes. did nixon do this januaryf 6th thing? no. he was a statesman at that time and he said you won. donald trump lost by 7.1 million votes, and he knew that he had no chance of winning other than causing havoc on january 6th. well, if he s salivating, i saw you chanting at the bit, jim acosta.