Continues with ac 360. For the first time in this countrys history, a former president of the United States has been charged with felonies allegedly committed while he was president. Im Anderson Cooper here in new york along with jake tapper. Anderson, the indictment charges former President Trump with four things, one that is antit antithetical. Despite having lost the defendant, donald trump, was determined to remain in power, unquote. We learned of the indictment in the 5 00 hour today. Shortly after 6 special counsel jack smith made a statement. Here it is in full. Good evening. Fod an indictment was unsealed charging donald j. Trump with conspiring to defraud the United States, conspiring to disenfranchise voters and extending and from disrupting the scene. It sets forth the crimes charged in detail. I encourage everyone to read it in full. The attack on our nations capitol on january 6th, 2021, was an unprecedented situation. It was filed in the indictment fueled by lies, lies by
that he knows the shooter is dead, i m still telling him, son, be aware of your surroundings, do you know how to get out of the building? you know, these are conversations we shouldn t have have to be having with our children. jackie ibanez. three nine year olds and three faculty members of nashville s covenant school are dead. i was literally moved to tears to see this and the kids being ushered out of the building. we have identified the suspect, a 28-year-old female white, actually nashvillian, at one point a student at that school, but unsure what year. police say hale arrived in her honda fit and you can see on video her going into the school and she went in patrolling the hallway calmly armed with two rifles and a handgun. she opened fire from the second floor. she also hit and shot a responding police car. officers rex englebert and michael collazo entered the school fatally shooting the suspect. a half-hour before, a basketball teammate of audrey hale received c
people explained to him yet he still moves over. right. exactly, anderson. that s part of the focus of what jack smith and the prosecution are trying to portray to prove. despite the fact the former president has a right or he had a right to challenge, he has a right to lie, right? to say there was a fraud. he has all of those rights. what he doesn t have a right to is to concoct the united states to have this conspiracy to try to deprive the citizens of their right to have their vote counted. so that s what they go through in chapter and verse. what prosecutors draw a picture of, someone being told by his vice president, by the homeland
said the goal is to protect everybody s free speech since there are three counterprotests as well. manninger said one of those groups does have a history of violence. the biggest risk is clashes between groups on both sides. now, the real question is how many people will show up for this so-called justice for j-6 rally. 700 people are on the permit here. and 500 people have registered online. but we ll see if this is a dud and all of this protection is overkill. all right, pete muntean, we appreciate it so much. thank you. thanks, pete. last hour i spoke with cnn law enforcement analyst and former secret service agent jonathan bwakrow, here s his take. the preparations made to date are appropriate. the department of homeland sec security, other law enforcement entities have put out a series of warnings. and those warnings should not be taken lightly.